March & April 2012

A few days before March 19 it occurred to me that my period was late. This has happened in the past, I have peed on a stick only for my period to begin the next day. I did not want to spend the money for a test thinking there is no way that I could be pregnant. However, it was closing in on two weeks late. On Monday March 19 I was doing some shopping and I figured I had better buy a test just to make sure. I got home, took the test, and to my surprise it was positive.  Then I called Mark at school and he asked me what kind of test it was.  I told him it was a Safeway brand.  He told me to go back and get a brand name test.  I went back & bought 2, and took a total of five tests, as I could not believe it.  We saw the nurse practitioner & mid-wife at the doctor's office on April 02nd, and saw the little baby on the ultrasound and were given a due date of November 19, 2012.  The next appointment is on May 1st, and I will meet the actual doctor.  A miracle! Especially since Mark's doctor(s) told Mark in November that there was no way he could ever have children with his current readings.  The doc put Mark on a new medicine in January and told him that although the odds were very low, it was the best treatment for his endocrine issues if we wanted to have a baby.  We are so excited!

Okay, this is Mark with an update.  I was about to go back up to Rohnert Park from Rebecca's parents house in Petaluma on Saturday night (April 21st), when Rebecca told me not to go, and her Mom said that she needed to go to the emergency room.  To make a long story short, we think that she really exerted herself on Saturday and the doctor put her on 24 hour bed rest, and gave instructions for further bed rest if necessary.  We got to see a newer ultrasound of the bigger baby (embryo) too, so everything turned out okay.  Apparently 50% of women spot, so we appeared to be in the clear after the examination. We have a revised due date of November 24, 2012 now. We did end up missing our trip to Galt on Sunday though.  We had made plans to go out there for a Sunday visit as David was involved in state testing all week. That ruined our birthday card delivery plans as well...oh well. 

I am hoping that we can fit in a trip to the beach.  Rebecca did really well just resting on Monday, but Tuesday was her birthday and she had a big day (I was at Steven's condo) going to breakfast and shops and going to the hospital to fetch the dictated doctor records, then faxing them in from a Kinkos, running errands, getting in and out of a borrowed truck with a high, difficult entrance. I put her on bed rest last night and had to lay down the law that she needs to take it easy.  I don't think she knows what that is sometimes.

We are very excited, and after waiting over 8 1/2 years, we had decided to enjoy the pregnancy and not worry too much (thanks hospital visit, for your attempt to change that). Owing to a blessing from my dad back in 2010, we have already picked out names.  If it is a boy, he will be named Isaac Nicholas, and if a girl, she will named Abigail Sue.