Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Our BIG News!

Surprise! Surprise! We're expecting!

Here's how it all came to the surface for us...

Wednesday, May 12, I left work early because I was so sick. I went to the doctor the next morning, and blood work confirmed that I had a bacteria infection. And they were also concerned about a possible appendectomy (All results came back negative for that). I went through the next week still so sick I could barely function. Something just didn't seem right since I had been on very strong antibiotics and I seemed to be getting worse.

Thursday, May 20, I woke up knowing I was pregnant. I had never had that feeling before, and it was so strange. I had sent Tim a text message asking his opinion, but we both just didn't think it could be true. It took everything I had to make myself go buy a pregnancy test (first ever in 29 years). So I got an entire basket of things I didn't need, in hopes of the cashier passing the pregnancy test through without noticing. I couldn't tell you if that worked... or why I was so weird about the ordeal. Within minutes, there were 2 pink lines showing. I could not believe my eyes. Over the next half hour, I rechecked it many times to see if one line might have faded or disapppeared... it never did. My exact text message to Tim was at 1:23pm reading "Ummmmmm. Hmm.". So he called and we talked about it... both in shock, but equally excited. I immediately went back to the doctor to have this confirmed (which she did) as well as taking me off of the antibiotics I had been taking.

And I continued to be sick... very sick... all day, everyday.

Friday, June 11, my first OB appointment. I was so nervous. I had no idea what to expect, no idea if I would like the doctor, no idea if there would be good or bad news. Tim met me there with a dozen yellow roses and a chocolate chip cookie... my heart melted, so sweet! The appointment went great, much to my surprise, I was unbelievably relieved. Through the ultrasound, we were able to see little Baby Hicks and even hear a heartbeat!! The baby measured to be 9 weeks, 1 day - 1 inch long - 178 heartrate (which she said was good!).






6 comments:

  1. You both know how happy I am about for you both!! I can't wait to meet this new little baby and to see you two with your new little one! I hope you feel much better soon and good job Tim on the roses and cookie!!

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  2. I am so excited for you. I think its great that our babies will be the same age and will get to grow up together! love you both.

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  3. What wonderful parents Little Hicks will have, and this baby doesn't stand a chance to be anything but beautiful.

    Linda R

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  4. I am so excited for the two of you! I cannot wait to meet the new addition to your family!

    ~Ashley

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  5. I'd like to start by calling her Baby Girl Hicks! She is going to have blonde hair until she is about 4, will weigh in @ 8 lbs, 6 ozs. and have big round brown eyes. Birth date will be between January 15th and 20th meaning she will be a great over achieving philanthropist or an eccentric engineer...and I love her already!

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  6. Diapers, bottles, potty chairs, Tonka trucks, T-ball, travel soccer, DHS baseball/football, seems like yesterday...Baby Girl Hicks has no chance of being anything but a little athlete. Gramma Gay is going to make a golfer out of her and her cousins Madison and Brooklyn....

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