Finding Out I’m Pregnant and Telling Our Families!
// April 22, 2020 //
Alright, people, I’m gunna say it.
I’M HORRIBLE AT DOCUMENTING MY LIFE.
I used to be so good at it. There are Facebook albums and blogs up until about my sophomore year of college, and then for some reason, I just sorta gave up. Sure, I posted highlights on Instagram (and still do! @_megan.elise), but it’s not the same as remembering all the details.
SO. What’s my point?
I’m going to do it. I am going to be better about documenting my life! Because I want to remember EVERYTHING about pregnancy and my baby’s life! Even the icky stuff… because when my kids complain about helping bring in groceries, I can remind them that I barfed multiple times a day during pregnancy and carried them for a full nine months. 😉
So here we go. I would love if you would follow along with me for accountability. I probably won’t be perfect at it, but I want to try. I am hoping that social media will encourage me to organize all the photos and videos that I take, so that they aren’t lost in a sea of screenshots and random videos of my dog sleeping.
FIRST UP: FINDING OUT I’M PREGNANT AND TELLING OUR FAMILIES!!!
As you can see, I linked a YouTube video above. I thought this would be a good way to organize my videos, since, well, it’s a video. So, you can skip all my blogging and go straight up to my vlog if you wish! Or, if YouTube isn’t your thing, keep reading. Either way, I think I will love looking back at both of these mediums.
I’ll just jump right into the story. Mac and I both thought it would take forever to get pregnant. For one thing, it takes your body a while to adjust being off of the pill. For another thing, I have had hormonal issues for years. I am mostly regulated now, but wasn’t sure how much it would affect getting pregnant. I was setting my expectations to a minimum of 6 months!
Here’s the thing, though, 2 months in, I was really sad about it. I didn’t want to wait 6 months! I sobbed, thinking I was just hormonal, knowing that the Lord’s time would be perfect… but sometimes you just gotta cry it out when you realize everything doesn’t happen on your own time! Lament is a thing, people.
The funny thing is, though, that this crying session happened three days before I found out I was pregnant! God’s timing is PERFECT, and He gives good gifts from above. And I just have to laugh that I was crying over His timing when He had already given me the sweetest gift. His ways are higher than mine.
Sunday morning I woke up after having missed my “time of the month” multiple days in a row. I figured I should take a pregnancy test, even though I really didn’t think there was a baby in my belly. Mac and I wanted to find out together, but he was at church drumming on the worship team. Since I knew I wasn’t pregnant (haha), I went ahead and took one. I had a bunch of cheap tests that I would take when I was curious, so this wasn’t out of the norm. (Here’s the tests I have if anyone is interested: https://amzn.to/34Shzt2) I had taken dozens of these before over the last few years, even when we weren’t trying. I was very familiar with what one line looked like on those babies.
So I KNEW that the test looked completely different went I checked it. There were TWO lines clear as day!!!
I was pregnant!!!! Still am, actually. I was freaking out—sweating, heart beating fast, and my mind was racing! (Videos of me finding out at 3:50 in the YouTube video.) Let’s do the math here. If we started trying two months ago, and you usually are 4 weeks pregnant when the test comes back positive, that means that it only took us ONE MONTH to get pregnant!!! God is good and funny and so gracious.
I had to wait a few hours to tell Mac, because he was playing drums at church. Longest hours of my LIFE! After second service, we talked to some friends, then went out to the car. I nonchalantly said, “Hey, guess what!” Mac replied, “What!” And I said, (super exciting I know), “I’m pregnant”! Mac’s head shot up and then he started laughing. We both laughed and hugged and prayed together. We went and got a “nicer” test just to confirm that I really was pregnant. That test came back as pregnant, and then I did a blood test at the doctor’s office to confirm it as well.
I WAS FOR SURE PREGNANT!!!
We told my family the next week while celebrating my dad and sister’s birthday. The next day we told Mac’s family!! (Check out the YouTube video around 8:30 to see the video of telling my family, and around 9:52 to see the video of telling Mac’s family!)
While everything was so happy, the first trimester was a tricky time as well, because I had horrible nausea and extreme exhaustion… but it was worth it! Thankfully, I am now into my second trimester as I am writing this and can say—the nausea DID subside at week 14 and thyroid meds helped kick my energy levels up!