Week 5: Appleseed
(June 30 - July 6)
I took the pregnancy test on Monday, June 28th.
I had spent the previous weekend at my parents' house in Pennsylvania and was surprised at how tired I was all weekend. I fell asleep in the car during the ride to PA, fell asleep on the couch a few times, fell asleep on a raft in the pool...I also felt like I was ready to start my period at any moment, so I chalked the exhaustion up to PMS. I really didn't expect the test to be positive when I took it (I can't tell you how many negative results I've gotten in the last year and a half) and immediately started crying tears of joy when it showed a positive result. James was already at work, so I sent him a text of the positive test. His reaction was "I can't feel my arms. I feel dizzy. Ka-plunk". Needless to say, we were both surprised and shocked and overwhelmed. It took a few days for the reality to set in and the shock and terror to wear off (more on that later). Don't get me wrong, we weren't sad or mad or disappointed I was pregnant; it was just a big shock since we weren't expecting it. I had my first doctor's appointment, but we still didn't know how far along I was at that point. They confirmed the pregnancy with a urine test, and did blood draws to check beta hCG and progesterone. My hCG came back at 3597 and progesterone was 10.3. I was a little nervous that the progesterone was low, but my doctor reassured me that it was in the normal range. But for me, that wasn't enough. I called my friend Chas (who is a doctor and has her own practice in PA), and called my old nurse from Shady Grove; they both assured me that the progesterone was normal and to focus more on the hCG going up for the next test (scheduled for the following week).
