sperm, meet egg. egg, meet sperm

i think the moment my husband and i decided it was time for us to get pregnant, the pressure of that choice became a lot scarier than the thought of raising a child/ being responsible for another human being for the next 18 years of his/her life. i think it was because we weren't sure we were even physically capable of doing so. in the back of my mind, i kept thinking my eggs are old and dusty and his swimmers are probably old and lazy. ugh. i even started an IVF fund JUST IN CASE. my thinking was, i will save up for one shot and that will be that. we just can't afford anything more.

we definitely didn't get pregnant right away. i went and got checked out just in case and the hubs did too. turns out his swimmers WERE a little lazy. so i made him drink chinese herbs and told him to stop placing his laptop on his crotch. maybe they were lazy because they were too hot! i even got some acupuncture for myself just in case. can't hurt right? we didn't want to talk to a fertility doctor until we tried what we could no matter how far fetched or hairbrained it seemed.

hubs consumed some nasty and very expensive cordyceps

acupuncture for me. can you see the needles poking into my heel and knee?

i also went to costco and got a box of ovulation sticks. when i saw that double line indicating that i'm ovulating, you better believe i called my husband at work and told him when he got home that night that he had to drop his pants right away. haha, sexy goes out the door, it's work people, work.

time to get busy

then one day, while we had hot pot for dinner and i was sipping my usual beer, it really tasted funny to me. i don't know why, it just didn't taste the same as it normally does. i had to pour the rest of my beer down the drain. yuck.

i also picked up some weird aromas from food i normally ate. i would ask my husband & in-laws if they smelled this funk to the food. nope. weird. maybe my nose is broke.

turns out at that time, i was already about 1.5-2 weeks pregnant! some people say that pregnancy alters your sense of smell and taste. although it was way early in my pregnancy, i still think it had something to do with it.

so that morning when i took my first pregnancy test and saw the double pink lines, i remember frantically calling my husband to come back into the house (he was leaving for work and i was just getting ready to go myself) when i saw the results. he was skeptical at first so we took 2 more home pregnancy tests over the course of a few days just to make sure....

touchdown! woot. a blood test at my doctor's office officially confirmed it. we were pregnant!! from that day forward i walked around with my hands hovering protectively over my belly, feeling blessed for this little life-form inside of me. imagine, me, MOMMY!