Doctors Appointment

I had my 1st doctors appointment today. I was prepared for blood work, lots of questions, and a lovely exam....BUT I GOT SO MUCH MORE. The doctor wanted to do a sonogram!! It was so amazing seeing the baby on the monitor and of course I CRIED when I heard the heartbeat. I am only 6 weeks along but the baby had a STRONG heartbeat! LIFE IS GREAT! Due date... DECEMBER 20TH! Merry Christmas to the Herricks! Let me know if you want to decorate my house for the holidays or cook Christmas dinner.....I'm sure I will be too busy to want to do either of those things!

Waiting....

First off...I am meant to post this picture with my last post. This is the picture of the 1st of 4 pregnancy test I took on April 16th!

I am quickly realizing that this is going to be the longest 8 months of my life. I am such a control freak and this is the ONE thing I can not control. All I can do is sit and wait!!! I am not enjoying the waiting at all. Wednesday is my first doctors appointment and I don't think it will ever get here. I just want to meet with the doctor and know that everything is okay. It will put my mind at ease for a while. I hear everyone say that "pregnancy sleep" is amazing....my mind is wondering too much to get a good nights rest. I must say, I am fascinated with the changes that are taking place on this body of mine. I didn't realize how quickly things start changing shape, color, texture....it's all amazing!

I will post on Wednesday after my appointment to update everyone on what I find out. I doubt I will find out much of anything. I am only about 6 weeks along.

Pregnant!

I have been thinking about starting a blog for a couple of months now. My original plan was to start a blog to track our progress with fertility. I thought that it may make the process a bit easier if I put my thoughts down for me to read later. I had been having some "female" issues and in February we found out that I wasn't ovulating. After many talks we decided that we would try one round of Clomid before we contacted a fertility specialist. I went to my OB-GYN on Monday April 12th and she gave me my prescription of Clomid. Seth and I decided that we would probably wait until June to start it. Well, God obviously had a different plan for us because on Friday April 16th I found out that I am pregnant. I had been sick for several weeks but never thought that it could be that I was pregnant. After you are told by a DOCTOR that you need help conceiving, you just believe them. Anyways, last week I came home and took a nap every day (that should have been my clue there) and EVERYTHING made me cry. Happy, Sad, Funny....it didn't matter, I was crying. Even then, I thought nothing of it. But, when I went to get towels out of the dryer and realized that when I applied a lil' pressure to my "chest" area it hurt like no pain I had ever felt....I realized, "I MIGHT BE PREGNANT!"
Friday morning I took a test at 5am, noon, 10pm....all of them were positive. (I guess you could say I didn't believe it) Thankfully I was able to get into my doctors office for blood work and that came back Monday. Everything looked normal.
I am still in shock at the thought that I am really going to be a mother. I have prayed for this for so long. I can not wait! Thanks to everyone that kept us in their Prayers. It means so much to us.