1st appointment done, second one scheduled!

Today's appointment went really well. I had a good chat with the Doctor and he cleared up a lot of my questions about medications and such. He told me the pros and cons of genetic testing and I think Rob and I have decided to do it. Although, he was really nice and reassuring about the fact that I can change my mind as many times as I would like. They made me take another pregnancy test today and luckily it was still positive =) but other than that we just did a lot of talking.

I got to schedule my first ultrasound for Wed. June 11th at 8am! 8am is great because Rob will be able to come with me to this appointment. After that I'll meet with the Doctor again on Friday the 13th (wow, I hope that's not a bad sign)!

I told my advisor about my pregnancy today and he was so supportive and reassuring, it was really nice to hear. He is a really great dad so having his support is a real blessing and I know I have a lot to learn from him and his family. The next step is to tell the rest of the family and our friends...wish me luck!

Chicago

Rob and I are in Chicago for Memorial Day weekend, along with one of our favorite people Kristen. Kristen and I have a conference to present at and Rob has some relaxing to do after an insane couple of weeks at work (and sadly this will be his last vacation for several months). Rob and I have both been here before and have come to the conclusion that this is one of our favorite cities. The food is great, the city is clean, it's easy to get around, and the people are friendly. After I'm done presenting today we have plans to go to the zoo, planetarium, China Town, a Cubs game, and Navy Pier. Should be a hectic few days but we are all really excited about it.

We get back around midnight on Tuesday and I have my first OB-GYN appointment scheduled for Wednesday at 10am so I'll update you all then and hopefully upload so pictures from Chicago!

5 weeks down

Today marks the 5th week of my pregnancy. I'm feeling well, not too tired or anything, which is good considering I have 2 presentations to put together, a trip to Chicago, 2 presentations to give, a baseball game and other crazy plans all scheduled for the next 7 days!

Rob and I told all the parents and grandparents the news this past Sunday. Mothers were excited, and fathers were shocked. My father's exact words were "what am I supposed to say, good job kids?" Toby was sad that he didn't get to announce it to everyone (like he had done at Rob's graduation dinner many years ago, by hitting the side of his glass with a fork, and announcing that everyone should be happy for me because I was pregnant-and just to be clear I was NOT pregnant at that point). Rob's father had a pretty good reaction too, he just kept saying "wow, that's great, i mean, it's really great" over and over and over again.

So everything considered things are going pretty smoothly so far. I have my first Dr. appointment Wednesday morning so I'll let you all know how that goes next week. Until then I'm off to Chicago. I hope everyone has a nice Memorial Day weekend!

January 19th...

I have my prescription for prenatal vitamins and we're off. January 19th here we come!

Who would have thought...

So, let's start out by saying that I will hopefully post more on this blog than I did on our wedding blog but in all likelihood you will have to pester me to do so. It's likely that most of you won't find this until several months (okay weeks is far more likely because I have a big mouth) have gone by so I thought maybe you'd like to know how everything progressed before you found out our big news...

Well today is day one. Home pregnancy test was positive this morning. I am now sitting at my desk just waiting for Health Services to open up so I can have the real test done. Now I know what you are thinking, who on earth would let the infirmary test something this important when they can barely get strep throat diagnosed correctly BUT I'm a little new to this and don't know where else to go. I have no idea how long these blood tests take but hopefully it's not long because I'm going to go crazy. I guess we'll have to wait and see...