I also started Insanity again and was working out everyday. This came to a screeching halt when I hurt my knee in late March and needed to take a rest so I wouldn't injure myself permanently (warning: don't work out on a concrete slab without proper padding).
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| Post cleanse and before and after 6 weeks of Insanity |
On April 2 I found out we were pregnant. Kevin had already gone to church to set up the parking lot and I was getting ready alone at home to meet him to Roadie (park cars at church). We had used ovulation tests the previous month and everyday it said "negative". I apparently didn't ovulate the entire month. I was due to get my period any day and I thought, why not take a pregnancy test...I couldn't be pregnant, "I didn't ovulate", but let's just check.
I wasn't expecting anything when I came back in the bathroom to look at the stick. But when the faintest positive sign showed up, I couldn't believe it. I cried! I thanked God and continued to express in my head (and maybe out loud) that this couldn't be real. Pure shock! Then I started thinking how in the world I would break it to Kevin. It had to be special.
We have a journal that was gifted to us at our wedding and I gave it to Kevin for our 3rd anniversary with some letters/love notes to him. We don't use it as often these days, but it's a place we write to each other. Well, I used that journal to write Kevin a little poem telling him we were pregnant and then hid it back on the coffee table.
I went to church and I felt like I was being strange the entire time. I couldn't stop smiling in my mind and I wanted to tell everyone I ran into, even complete strangers, "I'm pregnant!!!!", but I had to keep it inside.
After church I told Kevin I had to get gas, but instead I went to Target and bought a pack of newborn onesies, What to Expect When You're Expecting and more pregnancy tests. I wrapped it up and kept it in my car when I got home.
We were leading a Sunday night Bible Study at the time on James and we had to prepare the last chapter for that night. I had planned to tell Kevin after that evening's study (because I knew if I said something before, we'd never finish preparing and we'd get side-tracked). I brought the gift in the house at some point so I could sneak it upstairs, but before I could do that, Kevin spotted it.
He asked what it was and I wouldn't answer. I tried to video tape him, but he wouldn't allow me to do that either, so I just had to watch him open it. We both cried. We went up to the guest bedroom (what we decided would be the nursery) and talked about the color of the room and the theme and how we needed to re-do a dresser in the garage. We talked about how we'd tell our parents and all of the fun things that you're overwhelmed with when you realize you're pregnant and then we went back downstairs and finished the James study because we had to!
The next few weeks two other couples in our Bible Study announced they were pregnant and then we learned about another couple. We toured Baby and Company in Cary and met with an OB, trying to make a decision of who we'd see for care. We looked up ideas on how to tell our families. I was feeling great and still trying to stick to our diet of no dairy, no gluten and no sugar. I was really tired, so instead of intense cardio workout, I was napping a lot. And we regularly checked the baby app to see our miracle grow from a poppy seed to a lavender bud or peppercorn to a ladybug or chocolate chip.
It was so hard keeping the secret...especially when family came to visit and we traveled to NYC to visit friends.
Here are initial belly pictures.
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| 10 weeks 11 weeks |
