June 13, 2005
Parents to Be
Well, now we have done it, the little lady is pregnant.
I know I’ll want to make plenty of comments about our 9 month journey and beyond, and I don’t communicate with all our friends like I should, so I’ll take time jotting down thoughts that I have about the parenting process. Hopefully this will keep everyone up to date.
There are going to be things I will forget about this process it will be nice to have a written record.
To catch you up with what you guys have been missing out on:
When we were around the time to see if we were pregnant I was sent out to purchase the device that would tell us our future.
So our testing process began.
First test…. positive
Just incase that test was wrong.
Take another…. positive
But just incase those two were wrong, why not take another, but make it a different brand… positive
I would find out later that the chances of a false positive are so slim that you should believe the first test and save the money.
I will never forget the look on Kim’s face. She was so happy. Her smile made the room glow. Even now weeks later with the nausea she is still happy.
Okay, lets get to the doctor. Wait.
Apparently you just don’t go to the doctor. You have to wait until you are 8 weeks pregnant. That is a very hard thing to do. First you think that they must have a more accurate pregnancy test (more accurate than the three 99.9% tests we already took) and second what if we do something wrong in those weeks. We need him to tell us exactly what to do.
Help us doctor, you are our only hope.
Here is reality. The doctor uses the same test you do to confirm the bun is in the oven, but his test must be purchased in bulk at Sam’s Club or something. After all the concern, it turns out that his test is no more accurate than ours and we are just as pregnant. And guess what? He doesn’t do much but talk to you. He gives you paperwork, calms your nerves and says I’ll see you in 4 weeks. Believe me the calming the nerves is the best part of that preliminary visit. The endless flood of information through the Internet is great, but poison at the same time. It makes you think in too many directions at once. Just relaxing on the office couch and listening to the solitary voice of your doctor laying out the landscape of the coming months is comforting.
Posted by him at June 13, 2005 11:17 PM
