10 Weeks

I am ten weeks pregnant today and I am counting down the days until the end of the first trimester, aka: end of morning sickness.  Some days are worse than others and I have been feeling especially crappy since I woke up this afternoon.  I've been working night shift and it seems like I feel worse when I'm on a night shift schedule.  Oh well, the end is in sight I hope!

Otherwise, the symptom that I forgot to mention in previous posts is the gassiness (is that a word??).  I've been burping up a storm since about six weeks, and my bowels have been a little out of whack.  We'll just leave it at that, ha ha.  No further details necessary. 

Mike and I went up to my family's cabin in PA this past weekend for Father's Day and it was a great little getaway as always.  We rode four-wheelers, shot guns, played bad mitten, hiked, and just hung out.  Oh yeah, and.... we told the fam our big news!  It was funny because I gave Mike's dad and my dad Grandpa Father's Day cards and their reactions were hilarious.  Mike's dad just stared at it open mouthed (didn't even open it to read the inside!), and my dad kept insisting that I gave him the wrong card.  My sis got some priceless pics of the whole thing, and I'm so glad that we told them that way.  It  was pretty funny.  My grandma was the first one to get it and she jumped up out of her chair to hug everyone.  Then Mike's mom and dad, my dad, and my grandpa followed suit.  Great day!  Then I already got the whole "You're pregnant, what do you need?  Food, drink?  Are you alright?  You look tired.  Be careful on that four wheeler ride."  Etc, etc, etc.  It's pretty funny the instant attention you get when you're pregnant.

Here are some pics from the weekend.

So, all in all the past week was a pretty good one.  At the cabin I started writing in my pregnancy journal, which I desperately needed to start, considering that I'm already at week 10!  Then on the way home I read Jenny McCarthy's pregnancy book Belly Laughs.  It was pretty amusing and I enjoyed it.  I got that one at the library, which I finally decided to join.  I forgot how much I love libraries!  You get the same feeling leaving there that you do leaving a bookstore, but without the cost!

I am supposed to work again tonight, but I'm on call for now.  Both good and bad.  Good because I still really don't feel well, and me and 2 friends from work are heading to the beach in the AM, which would be miserable after working all night.  Bad because I am rapidly running out of paid time off.  Oh well, seize the day and enjoy it, right?  I'll just keep telling myself that.

First Ultrasound!!!

I am exactly 9 weeks along today and I had my first ultrasound, which was awesome!!  Mike came with me and he was so glad that he did.  It was such a cool thing to watch, and he says now that he saw it, it's easier for him to believe.  Haha.  I haven't had any real outward changes yet, so he has had a hard time grasping that I really am pregnant.  But I had no idea that we'd be able to see that much already!  It was a transvaginal ultrasound and I could definitely make out the head and mermaid-like body.  You could see the beginnings of some limb buds, and could see the heart beating!!!!  That was the coolest part.  The baby's heart rate was 171, which is normal, and the head was down, and you could see him/her moving around a little bit.  The doctor said, "Looks like the baby is awake right now", which was awesome and really reassuring to see.  Seeing the movement and the heartbeat was such a relief!  I now feel better about telling people, like it is more real or something.  So that's that.  Based on the crown to rump length they estimated that I am exactly 9 weeks today, which is precisely on par with what we thought, so official due date remains January 19th!

Afterwards we went to Walgreens to fill my prenatal vitamin prescription since I am out of samples.  It's $55 a month!  Wow, talk about expensive!  I had no idea, so the pharmacist gave me some names of generics to talk to my doc about next time that might be cheaper.  We'll see.

I got 4 ultrasound pics (that I wish I knew how to scan and put on here) and I'm going to bring them to the cabin this weekend, where we will be telling my dad and grandparents, as well as Mike's parents.  It'll be so cool to have those pics to show!

My visit with my mom this past weekend was so nice.  She was really pumped about the pregnancy and I told my aunt and uncle as well.  We decided to meet up with them at the Childress winery for wine tasting, so it was fairly evident that something was up when I decided not to partake in the festivities!  They were very excited for me too. 

 The winery

Mike and I overlooking the vineyards

Mom and I went to the beach on Friday, and it was such a great, relaxing day.  I forgot how much I love the beach at Wrightsville.  Wide beaches and crystal clear water, ahhhh.

 

Anyway, here are some "2 month" pics.  Not really any different than the "1 month" pics. 

Is that a little tiny bump, or am I just getting fatter from the ridiculous amounts of food???  Hard to tell....

So, Mike thought it would be hilarious to take a pic of me in the hideous white paper gown at the office.  Much as I love pictures, I am less than thrilled about this one.  But, see the stick-like thing next to me?  That is the device they use for the transvaginal ultrasound.  Not the most comfortable thing in the world, but all worth it!  The doctor mentioned that I have a cyst on my left ovary, which I briefly (silently) freaked out about until he told me that it is providing progesterone to sustain the pregnancy and it is nothing at all to worry about.  Whatever you say doc. 

 This is a pic that I just took of my ultrasound pictures!  Not bad quality, and there's our little bean! 

Ta-ta for now!

The Anticipation!

Yay!  Mom is coming down to NC to visit today and Mike and I are gonna tell her the big news!  I am sooo excited, because so far I have only told 2 people and I'm dying for my family to know!  I've known I was pregnant for almost a whole month already!  I got my Mom a bib that says Grandma Loves Me (or something like that) and I'm gonna put it in a little box along with a "We're Expecting" card that I found at Hallmark.  I'm gonna pretend it's another Mother's Day present that I couldn't send in the mail.  I really really really can't wait to see her face when she figures it out!

Anyway, I am 8 weeks and 1 day pregnant today.  Worked the past two days and it wasn't too bad.  I was in charge and the unit is pretty slow.  I actually got called off on Monday, so I only worked 2 days this week.  I was nervous because I hadn't worked at all since the nausea set in, but it turned out ok.  I just brought a lot of snacks, and luckily the nausea didn't get too bad when I was at work.  I think I'm probably pretty lucky, because I'm sure a lot of people have it a lot worse than I do.  My nausea is just annoying.  It's pretty much always there, just sometimes worse than others.  And it's never been really awful, and I've never thrown up.  Plus, for me, eating always helps to relieve it.  So, like I said, I guess I'm lucky.

Symptom wise, not much has changed this week.  My boobs might be a tiny bit bigger, and I'm still thinking I'm seeing a little change in my belly, but my weight and waist measurements prove otherwise.  So, not a whole lot of changes.  Still have breast tenderness, and who knows, maybe that stays the whole time.  I have no clue.  Not too tired other than the fact that I can barely stay awake past 9:30 at night.  I'm usually a 10:30-11:00 kind of girl.  I haven't been feeling overly tired during the day though.  I've been up early and to bed early, which I kind of like.  Wow, how old does that make me sound!

Mom is flying in this morning at 9AM and then we'll head to body pump and then hang out at the house for the afternoon.  I have a big crack in my windshield and someone is coming to the house to replace it between noon and 5.  We might hit up the Zest Cafe for lunch first if we have time.  Then in the evening we're gonna head over to the mall to pick up our packets for the Breast Cancer 5K on Saturday morning.  Tomorrow mom and I are gonna head to the beach (weather permitting) while poor Mike is at work.  Saturday morning is the race, and then we'll head to Charlotte to visit my mom's brother and his family.  No plans for Sunday, and mom flies back on Monday.  I'm excited for the next few days, and I think we'll have a lot of fun!

Vacation and 6th Week Recap

So Mike and I got back from a nice, relaxing, week long beach vacation with his family yesterday, and it sucks getting back to the grind.  We chilled at the pool and then grilled out with some friends today to wind down the vacation and I'm now officially dreading going back to work tomorrow.  It's always so hard going back after being off for awhile.  Maybe it's the fear of the unknown, who knows.

Anyway, I am now well into my 7th week, but I haven't been able to write about week 6 yet, so here it goes.  The first major thing that came into play was the nausea.  It hasn't been awful (no vomiting), but that whole "morning/ all day" sickness reared its ugly head this week.  I have found that as long as I eat something every three hours I'm able to stave it off pretty well.  But it can't be something mini like a fruit cup.  That doesn't cut it.  It has to be a fruit cup + yogurt + granola bar + cheese + whatever else I can scrounge up.  I'm serious!  If it was a little something every three hours, then I wouldn't be worried.  But at this rate I'm gonna be a blimp!!!  I find myself eating a full blown meal's worth of calories every three hours and that is scary!  But it's the only thing that keeps the nausea away.  Let's just hope that all of this ends after the first trimester.

So that has been my major symptom this week, but I have also been really tired.  I can't tell if that is a pregnancy thing, or if it's from being out in the sun all day.  It's funny though, because Mike's parents adopted all of my habits this past week.  His mom commented to me on the beach one day "I feel like I've been eating every three hours!  What's with me??"  "Haha, just following my lead", I mentally reply.  Then I've been exhausted by 9PM every night, so I've gone to bed between 9 and 10...and so have his parents!  Another Mike's mom comment: "I've been going to bed earlier than usual this week...must be the sun."  Haha! 

The big question was whether or not we'd be able to keep the pregnancy a secret from them for a whole week..... and we succeeded!  But it wasn't easy.  Number one: trying to pretend you're fine when you're nauseous...not easy.  I was probably little bit moodier than usual this past week.  Usually I am Little Miss Sunshine (especially around the In-Laws), and I was not able to keep that up at times.  I don't think they noticed though.  Mike's mom wants grand kids in a bad way though, and she brought it up about 10 times a day, every day of vacation.  Not in an obnoxious way...subtly, like mentioning how cute EVERY little baby on the beach is.  Then looking at sand toys and saying things like "Pretty soon we'll be bringing that stuff to the beach...maybe".  Haha, little does she know, we will be dealing with all of that next summer!  In her defense, there were little kids EVERYWHERE on that vacation.  I think maybe it's because older kids are still in school, but that beach was overrun with infant to 4 year old kids while we were there.  It was crazy!

I also kept thinking that I was noticing my belly getting a little larger, but that might just be in my head.  I came home and I only weighed one more pound than last week and my waist was 1/4 inch larger, so no real difference yet.  That change could very easily just be from being on vacation for a week and eating out every night.  Oh yeah, another hard thing was limiting my seafood intake.  I love seafood, but now I have to be careful with which seafood I eat, and even then, I can only have 2 servings a week.  Not easy when you are on a beach vacation.  I found myself getting a lot of salads, which is so unlike me, but I don't think his parents noticed.  I don't think they noticed that I wasn't drinking either.  They don't really drink, so since it was just Mike and I and them, we really didn't either.  A few times I had Mike make me virgin Bloody Mary's when they were all drinking one, and I don't think they are any the wiser.  They assumed there was alcohol in mine too. 

One of the benefits of going to bed at 9 is getting up with the sun.  I got up between 5:30 and 7:30 every morning, and that is definitely a first for me.  It was nice though.  I saw not one, but 2 sunrises!  And I was able to run/walk on the beach early before it was too hot.  Then I would go back and have breakfast number 2.  Here was my eating schedule for the week:
6:30 - Breakfast number 1 (usually Cheerios with fresh blueberries on top!  Yum!)
9:00 - Breakfast number 2 (this one varied, but it was always a full blown second breakfast)
12:00 - Lunch
3:00 - Large snack (as mentioned above)
6:00 - Dinner
9:00 - Bedtime snack

See what I mean?  Crazy amounts of food.  Oh well. 

So I ran/walked on the beach almost every day (also unheard of for me on vacation), and I really liked it.  I wore my Garmin heart rate monitor and kept my heart rate 110's- 140's with walking/running.  Once I noticed my heart rate climbing to the 150's I would walk for awhile.  Still felt like I got a decent workout though, albeit not as intense as I'm used to.  I tried hard not to let myself overheat this week while out in the sun because I know that's not good for you when you're pregnant (or ever, I guess). I got in the water (or at least went down and walked around in it) more frequently than usual, and I took hour+ lunch breaks at the condo.  All in all, I think I did pretty well this week. 

Here are some of my pics:

Sunday morning, on my way to catching the sunrise

View back towards the condo with the moon still out

I literally took about 20 sunrise pics, but I spared you the agony of putting ALL of them on here.

Mike and I on a nighttime beach stroll on our 2 year anniversary!  We went to a nice restaurant about 7 stories up that looked out over the ocean for dinner with his parents.  The restaurant gave us a little ocean scene paperweight with a helium-filled balloon attached to it for our anniversary, which was really sweet.  A memento of our 2nd anniversary!

Mike, loving life while fishing!  Sadly, that little pin fish and one other pin fish were the only two things he caught that day. 

7 weeks exactly in this photo!

So, that's my week recap.  A great, relaxing beach vacation.  Daisy was on vacation too, but she didn't do her relaxing until we picked her up....

She passed out on Mike's mom's lap the second she got in the car!  Poor thing, she loves Dogtopia (the doggy day care that we take her to when we go away), but she is non-stop when there are other dogs around.  It's not until the dogs are gone and it's only people that she can relax.  How cute is she?!!

Ok... Nauseous

So it kicked in.  The dreaded first trimester symptom has officially made its appearance.  I felt a little iffy at work last night, but this afternoon ever since I woke up I definitely don't feel well.  I don't feel like I'm gonna throw up, but I am nauseous.  Tried to go on a hike with Mike and Daisy but only made it a half an hour (usually our hikes are a good hour at least).  I just felt nauseous and weak and tired.  So we turned around.  Lame.  Don't feel like eating anything, and oddly, if I want to eat anything at all it has been vegetables these past two days.  Are you serious?  Me, the girl who hates veggies and has to force herself to eat a salad every now and again has had carrots and celery as snacks and a chicken caesar salad for dinner?  Whaaa?  I guess it's true that you end up craving what your baby needs.  Pretty amazing I must say.

I had my prenatal appointment this AM and it was pretty uneventful.  Talked with the pregnancy coordinator about what to expect, got offered a bunch of optional genetic testing for a bunch of extra money, and got 6 tubes of blood drawn.  Hopefully all of my blood work will come out OK.  I guess I'll find out next week.  I made my next appointment for June 16th and that will be my first ultrasound!  Yay!  Hopefully Mike will be able to get out of work early and come with me!

Mike's parents will be here in about a half hour and we're going on vacation with them tomorrow for a week.  Hopefully this whole nausea thing won't be too bad or it might blow our cover!  We shall see....

The First Weeks

So I am now 6 weeks and 2 days pregnant!  I've known for almost two weeks, but it seems like an eternity!  How am I going to keep this a secret for another month or more???  Mike and I decided that we wouldn't tell anyone for a little while (which, like I mentioned before, didn't really work.  Currently 5 people know the news!  Not bad though, eh?).  We didn't have any specified number of weeks that we wanted to wait, but I know that the risk of miscarraige is so much bigger in the first trimester, so I kinda wanted to wait until almost 13 weeks.  However, it's important to us that we tell our families in person, and we don't see them often enough to be that specific with our time frame. 

My mom is coming to visit June 10-14 and we decided we'll tell her at that time.  Then the following weekend we are going to my cabin with my dad, grandparents, and Mike's parents for Father's Day, so we decided to share the news with the rest of them there.  And unfortunately we'll have to tell Mike's sister over the phone, because we won't see her until the 4th of July, and people will not be able to keep it from her until then.  But I told my sister over the phone too, so it's all good.  I'll be in the middle of my 8th week when we tell my mom, and the middle of my 9th week when we tell the rest of the fam.  I think we'll probably wait a few more weeks until we announce the news to the general public.  So that's the plan for now.

I bought a little bib the other day for my mom that says "Grandma loves me", and I'm going to wrap it and tell her it's a late Mother's Day gift.  There is a cute little baby announcement card that I'm going to give her too.  Then, since we're seeing the rest of the family on Father's Day, I got "Grandpa" Father's Day cards for our Dad's.  They'll be so confused, but I'm going to write "Congratulations!  You're going to be a Grandpa!" on the inside, and sign it "Love, Mike, Jess, and Baby "H".  I can't wait!!!!  This will be the first grandchild on either side of the family, so anything with the words grandma or grandpa will really throw them all for a loop!  I also got a great-grandfather card for my grandpa, which will be fun to watch him open.  So there's my plan for telling our big news to the family!

So, like I mentioned before, I love when I have something to study up on.  Mike says that I baffle him, and he doesn't understand why someone who likes to study so much has no desire to go back to school.  It's because I love my job.  I really do, and I have zero desire to do anything else.  If I did, I'd go back to school.  Simple as that.  Anyway, I digress.  When we got Daisy I got a bunch of books on how to train dogs, when we decided to do something with our lawn I got a bunch of landscaping books, and now.....pregnancy books!  The most exciting of all!  I bought the obligatory "What to Expect When You're Expecting", and also "Your Pregnancy Week By Week".  I like them both a lot.  Probably because they are both semi-technical, and I like to hear the facts.  Some people find these books scary, and say that they give too many bad scenarios, but working in the PICU, I see bad scenarios on a daily basis.  It's almost comforting to me to read about them, because it does talk about how rare most of the genetic defects are.  I see kids with congenital and genetic defects every day at work, and sometimes I forget that it is the minority of the population that I am working with.  So, I love both of these books, and maybe "Your Pregnancy Week By Week" just a little bit more.  It's hard not to read ahead, but I have been good!  I have only read through week 6.  I read it aloud in bed at night to Mike so that he can share in what is happening both to the baby (or sac of cells, as he currently calls it) and to me.

As far as symptoms of my pregnancy so far, I really haven't had many.  The very first thing that I felt was breast soreness.  I actually felt that before I knew I was pregnant and before I knew that it was a symptom of pregnancy.  I went running about two and a half weeks ago and my boobs were really sore during the run.  I figured my sports bra was getting stretched out or something and didn't think much of it.  Then boom, two days later, I found out I was pregnant!  So that was my very first symptom! 

I have also been peeing a lot more frequently than normal, which is a early symptom of pregnancy, but that could also be because I am trying to be more conscious about drinking enough.  So, who knows.  The only other thing I've really felt so far was slight cramping.  This one really had me paranoid at first, because the two things that go through your mind when you are pregnant and cramping are miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy.  Or at least, those were the only two things going through my mind.  But after doing some research I happily discovered that mild cramping is completely normal during pregnancy.  Whew!

Here are some pics I took at month 1 of my pregnancy.  I love how by the time you figure out that you're pregnant you are already at month 1!

Before the belly!

Ok, I know this one is kinda weird, but a girl on a blog that I read took a pic like this when she first found out she was pregnant and another one when she was about to pop.  Her photography skills might be slightly better than mine, but whatever.  You couldn't see her feet at all by the last one, and I thought the progression was pretty cool.  So for now, my feet are still in full view (and my belly button ring is still intact....wonder when I should take that out???)

Bare belly shot

So, we know that my birthday was earlier in the week.  This past weekend Mike and I went out on the town with a bunch of friends of ours and friends of mine from work.  It was a blast, but not easy keeping the news a secret.  Especially since it was my birthday, so I was expected to drink...and heavily.  I'll tell ya, it's tough work drinking straight ginger ale all night pretending it's Jack and Ginger and acting hammered.  Seriously, I was exhausted!  Don't think I pulled it off all that well either because people kept asking how I was still so sober when I had been drinking liquor all night.  Shhh, don't tell them....yet!   Here is a pic of Mike and I before we went out.  And yes, that's ginger ale in my wine glass.  It actually looked shockingly similar to the white wine that everyone else was drinking.  They had white wine with strawberries, I had ginger ale with strawberries.  And nobody was any the wiser.  I'm a sneaky sneak!

Then, the day before my birthday I opened the front door to find this...

Yay!  A package for me!  Who doesn't love packages?!  Opened it up to find my very first baby presents, from none other than my awesome sister!  Loved it all!

Sooooo fun!!!!

That's about it for now.  I have my first prenatal appointment in less than an hour and I am so excited!  Not really sure why, because I have no idea what it will entail, but I am excited nonetheless.  I'll keep ya posted on how it goes!  I'm 6 weeks, 2 days and counting.....

Happy Birthday to Me!.....and.....BIG NEWS!

I last wrote a week and a half ago that I woke up in a great mood, and there was a very specific reason for that.   That wonderful Friday morning at 6AM I found out that I was....

Can you believe it????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   I knew that May was my favorite month for a reason!!!

Here's how it all went down.  Mike got up for work at 5:30 like always and I layed there in bed pretending to be asleep.  I had already decided the night before that if I woke up and still didn't have my period I was going to take a pregnancy test.  Friday was Day 30 of my slightly irregular schedule, so I figured it was late enough to give it a try.  I wasn't expecting anything though, so I waited for Mike to leave because I was sure it would look the same as all of the others.  But it didn't!!!!  I saw that plus sign and I was too stunned to move for a second.  I thought if I so much as blinked it would disappear.  But it didn't!!!  (The test above was a different brand that I used the following Monday, just to be sure.  After I took tests on Saturday and Sunday too of course!  Haha!)   Here is the original test that I took.

So, the line was kind of faint on this one, but make no mistake, it was the first hint of anything positive I've ever seen!  I was beyond elated!  I can't even describe the feeling.  Here is a pic of me right after I found out. 

I was home alone, so it was one of those take a picture of yourself things.  But I had to capture the moment, home alone or not. 

Next up, I called Mike while he was driving to work and delivered the good news.  No cute delivery of the message or anything like that.  I was too excited for that; I just blurted it out!  And he was so excited too, which was awseome.   So I proceeded on with my day trying to think about anything else, but let me tell you it was NOT easy (or very successful!).  I didn't blog about it on that day, because I wanted to keep the news to ourselves for a little while.  Not that that worked either.  I pretty much immediately called my sister and told her.  She was screaming and saying how excited she was for us too, which I loved!  Then when I thought about it today, I thought "Why not post about it?"  The only two people that know about this blog are my husband and my sister, and those were the first two people to hear the news! 

Mike and I left for Asheville after he got home from work and here is a pic of us in the car on the day we found out I was pregnant.

Not the greatest picture (especially of me, eww), but it's the only one we have of both of us from that day.

I brought some extra pregnacy tests along on the trip because the faintness of the positve line made me nervous (I know, I know, paranoid much?)  I mean there are three in a pack, so you should use all three just to be sure right??  That was my rationale anyway.  Haha!  So I took one Saturday and I got positive result number....

And then again on Sunday, for positive result number...

 We went to Asheville with the same couple that we went to Nashville with, and the girl kept asking me if I thought I was pregnant.  I wasn't drinking, but then again, I never really did during the two weeks a month that it was possible I might be pregnant.  I stayed strong and didn't tell her....until the last day of vacation (Monday).   I just couldn't hold it in any longer!  Plus, she is one of the very few people who knew that Mike and I were trying.   I didn't tell her about our fertility struggle until February, but I definitely unloaded on her then.  The fact that we had "only" been trying for 7 months might not make it a fertility issue by the books, but it definitely was to us.  She knew about all of the discouraging months we've had since last June, and I think that made me even more excited to share the news with her.  She was sooooo excited for us, and wanted to talk about it nonstop, which was fine by me!

Mike and I ran the Biltmore 15K on Sunday morning, which was really a beautiful course.  I have never done the 15K distance before, and it was great because it is around mile 9 of a half marathon that I start to get tired.  Mike didn't want me to run it because we already knew I was pregnant at this point (but we hadn't told my friend yet).  He thought it wasn't good for me, blah blah blah.  But he gave up after I told him that I promised to be careful, and I was gonna just stay with him and run/walk.  I promised that I would listen to my body and walk when I was getting too out of breath.  I did, and it was fine, but it was tougher than I thought it would be to walk during a race.  It's all a mental game, and I have had it engrained in my head since high school that during a race (or any run for that matter) walking is NOT an option.  But I wasn't gonna let my crazy head keep me from doing the healthy thing for my baby.  So I ran/walked the race, and Mike and I stayed together the whole time which was nice for a change.  I normally blow him out of the water on the long races, haha!  Here's Mike before the race started.  Remember how much he LOVES getting up early to run.

And here we are together....

Looking a little perkier at this point!

So, all in all it was a fun weekend in Asheville.  On the ride home I wanted Mike to stop at a Barnes and Noble so I could get some pregancy books, because we all know how much I love when I have something to study up on.  But he refused, and said I could wait until we got home.  I told him that the three hour car ride was the perfect time to start reading up on things, and he countered by telling me that I had 9 months to read up on things.  Humpf.  Cruel I tell you.  So all of 5 minutes after we got home I got back in the car and hit up Rite Aid for just one more box of pregnnancy tests (a different brand this time of course) and then Borders for some reading material.  

My next post will be about my books and what I think of them, as well as some of the symptoms I've been experiencing so far.  I am currently 5 weeks and 6 days pregnant, and I plan to write in this blog least once a week throughout my pregancy with what I've been feeling and going through that week.  Until then I will leave you with a few more gems.  I was picture happy I know.  Can you blame me??

You can see in the second picture that the inital test that I took had more of a faint positive line, and as the days went on it became more distinct!  Monday when we got back I bought the Clear Blue tests and took one that day and the next one this past Sunday.  So all in all I have taken 5 pregnacy tests since Friday May 14th, and gotten 5 positive results!  Mike and I are through the moon with excitement!!!  Happy Birthday to me!  Date night dinner and a movie with my hubby tonight!   Yay!