Maybe Baby: Two Lines!!!

Two lines. That was all we wanted to see. Two lines.

I'd peed on 4 sticks to date, and they all showed 2 lines. The second line was always faint, but it was always there.

I went in to The BabyLab for my blood test this morning. And waited anxiously all morning for news.

Nervously gnawing at my fingernails.

Sweating bullets for the results.

Driving my colleagues mad with my pacing.

Driving myself mad with all the questioning and self-doubting.

Surely, 4 home pregnancy tests can't be wrong, can they???

And then, the phone call came.

"Congratulations, Gloria, you're officially 4 weeks pregnant."

Yay!

Oh wait, are we ready for this???

See, I AM going mad. Of course we are ready for this! We'd waited so long and worked so hard towards this result. Of bloody course we're ready!!!

So, here we are, 11 months after we started our journey into the unknown, we are finally pregnant. Of course, it is still early days, so we can't afford to be too excited just yet. We have a scan scheduled for 25 July - the "viability scan" - to see if Magic Bean is still there. And so, for the time being, we wait. And wait. And wait some more.

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Dear Magic Bean,

Daddy and Momma have such high hopes for you, so please please please keep growing bigger and stronger. You have a loving set of parents who already adore you, and you have an awesome big brother who will teach you how to be brave and strong. Please be a fighter, just like your big brother, so that we may meet you in March next year.

We love you so much. Stay well.

Hugs and kisses,
Daddy and Momma