Today's Craving (week 4)

 Milkshakes, Milkshakes, Milkshakes!

4 weeks

I'm currently 4 weeks along and really haven't been experiencing any typical early pregnancy symptoms.

• No nausea
• Breasts are only minutely sensitive
• No smell sensitivity
• I'm actually losing waiting (down 3lbs from my before-we-found-out-weight)
• I am a little light-headed occasionally
• I'm craving chocolate milkshakes - but not too crazy
• There has been however, a fair amount of cramping
• I am the opposite of tired (except for last night), I'm not tired in the evening and I wake up early in the morning!

TTC

We agreed we wouldn't go full speed ahead with trying to conceive. We would take it easy, slow, and just let things happen when they may. However, I didn't want to waste time as I was not getting any younger. I spent about 3 months tracking my ovulation date with some cheap ovulation strips and using an iphone app.

Come Jan, Dan was ready to try. Now, the average, healthy couple takes about 6 months to conceive - which I think is about 70%-80% of most couples. Well, we tried once and I got pregnant! There is only about a 25%-30% change of that happening...and in generally maybe only a 25% or less chance of getting pregnant in any given month!

I was excited and Dan was shocked. I bought a bunch of Dollar Tree pregnancy tests and used one on the first day of my missed period and it was negative....I was getting anncy, so on the 3rd day of my missed period, I bought one of those expensive sensitive grocery store ones (I had a $2 off coupon) and..bamb! it worked. Two very clear lines :)

I tried to think of a cute idea on how to tell Dan I was pregnant. I didn't spend that much time on it b/c I thought I would have more time to think about it :) Just incase...I ended up buying a onsie ahead of time. I had this grand idea of writing a message on it and having Mr. T deliver it. What really happened was that I wrote on the onsie, woke Dan up, threw it at him and he said, I'm too sleepy I can't see. So, yeah it didn't work out quite as I had pictured :)

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The Begining

For the longest time (my entire life) I've always said I never wanted to have kids and I never wanted to get married. Well, I ended up getting married and found a husband that also didn't want to have kids (it was a good thing to agree on!).

I was completely turned off to the idea of having kids; I just couldn't understand the appeal. But then, slowly over the years things started to change. It got to the point where I had to plan a baby shower for my cousin and ended up researching and looking through all kinds of baby stuff. I realized, "Hey, I'm not repulsed by this stuff anymore!?" Fast forward a few months when we went to Oktoberfest...I got completely wasted and started crying telling Dan that I wanted kids and we should try that night. He of course was completely take back and needed a few months (at least) to wrap his head around the idea. So, we spent about the next 4 months discussing having a baby.