TBA

I'm still waiting on Ava's lovely recap of this past weekend's events.  Why am I waiting?  My camera decided to freeze up on me just as I was taking a picture of Sock attending the graduation ceremony.  She's got all the pictures & I'm stuck scrambling for a camera to document our days.  My old one may work for a little while.  Probably not the entire 10 week repair period.  Fingers crossed it comes home sooner.  I'll say, that it was a great time considering what could have unfolded.  I also did very well at Knitter's Connection.  Restrained myself to only the essentials.  I'll try to squeeze some pictures out.

But why am I writing without a camera or loot?  Here it is, a story our dear readers.  Imagine if you will, it's the first week of May, Gus is skating on some spilled dog food* (food that he spilled himself), & I ask Ava "How soon do I retest if I got a positive?"  Of course she says, "Go ahead and pee on it again."  Like I can will myself a full bladder?  I hung up the phone as soon as Gus was about to do a toe pick on some Kibble & poured a glass of water.  A couple hours later, same result.  Thinking that someone at the Pregnancy Test Factory had a shitty day & played with the test, I peed the next day & got the same response.  I'm a rational being, so why 3 tests?  When I stopped birth control, I never got my period back.  I took a number of tests in April & all were negative.  The doctor explained it may take a while to get Her back.  When I asked him, "How do I try or not try to get pregnant without a period to gauge ovulation?"  He looked at me like I was a post-op tyranny & said, "You can't get pregnant without a period, my dear."  Usually I'd argue, but I thought "Great we'll get a couple of months before it's time to get down to the business of Trying."  Wrong, my dear Dr., I'm pregnant!

Since I couldn't even guess how far along I was, I had to wait until the first OBGYN appointment.  Yesterday, my midwife guessed I was about 14 weeks, but thought somewhere between 12-16 weeks.  I nearly shit on the exam table.  I was planning on maybe 8 weeks & I still think that she's off by about 2 weeks.  That still takes away a month of this pregnancy !  I loved being pregnant with Gus.  Loved it!  Even though we were trying with Gus, I felt like I was in After School special about high school pregnacies when I saw the "+" sign.  I'm still in the high school phase, but I feel rushed to get happy now.  We are thrilled to be adding one to the family, but it takes me awhile for me to say "Yippee, it will all work out."  I really thought that maybe I wasn't pregnant & my body was playing a joke.  But most of my family (not Ava) was very happy to point out that fact that I look pregnant & I must be having twins.  I beg people to never EVER say this to a bitter pregnant woman sitting around at a BBQ while everyone else is throwing back beers.

In the very happy pregnancy department, no sickness!  The only thing that I got with Gus was extremely tired.  I'd sleep on the side of a highway if I had to.  This time around, I'm  tired but not enough to knock me out.  I've also learned with the 2nd one that I'm really augmentative & bitter during the first trimester.  I know that it's hormonal, but I really believe in my position at that time.  I'll walk away & tell myself, "You know that you're wrong."  But if SK questions it, I'm back on my soap box. 

So that's the Lola news.  I'm off to dig out my maternity pants, because the pants I'm wearing right now have a safety pin keeping them on.

*Gus is only allowed to skate or play with dog food when Mommy finds out #2 is coming.

Comments

[Mindy]

Congrats!!!!! And if you can't get pregnant without a period, then how the hell does the doctor explain those who get pregnant while breastfeeding with no period yet?

[Nora]

Congratulations!

[Ava]

Well, it's about damn time! Do you know how many times I nearly wrote, "Lola's up the duff so we won't ask her." I think we should have a contest to see who can come up with the most "charming" way of saying you're pregnant. What do you think?

[Beatknit]

Congratulations!!

[Cathi]

Congrats! I hear you about the multiple tests- for some reason, I don't feel like there is in-depth psychological testing for the people working there, and it would be a small thrill to think of false positives all over.

[nova]

WaaHooOOoo! Congratulations!!! Of course you need to start whipping out the baby knits!

[Sarah]

Congratulations -- not just on the pregnancy, but on the no-sickness too, you lucky thing you! Can't wait to see the baby knits! :)

[jody]

wow! hugs congrats!

now where are all those baby knits? ;)

[Lo]

Oh yay!

So, everything in my life happens in threes. I was waiting for the third pregger bootie to drop (I already have a co-worker and a friend with buns in the ovens) Glad to hear it's you! Congrats

Lo

[Cara]

YAY! Congratulations!

[kelp!]

I'm a bit late on this, but super congrats!