ULTRASOUND #2 - GENDER REVEAL!!

It's been a long 20 week wait to find out who's floating around in there. My appointment was at 11:45 this morning and I had to drink at least 16oz of water and hold it an hr before. My bladder was kinda going to explode. I went to check in and sat down on probably the most comfortable waiting room seats I've ever sat in...for chairs at least. They were super bouncy and cushiony. So I bounced around as I waited. Thankfully we didn't have to wait long, since the anticipation and full bladder were running against me.

We went into room 1. I laid on the little chair/bed/table/thing and the lady technician, who was super awesome and nice by the way, sploodged some goop on my belly and began scoping the innards. 1st we saw the head, then we saw some legs, and some arms. She asked if we wanted to know the gender. We were thinking of having Barry's sister do a little gender reveal extravaganza for us, but we've waited so long, we just had to know. So we both said "yes". So she began looking for the special parts. She took a bunch of photos and said "ok you may go pee now" and we'll look some more. So I waddled across the hall and emptied the tank and waddled back quickly. She looked around some more. Our hearts were just about pounding out of our chests. Then she said "it's a boy!" Barry and I were both very excited and relieved. Since we both really wanted a boy. So she made sure to take a picture of the boy bits just for proof for the fam ;)

She went on taking a zillion more pictures for the Dr. We saw the little guy shifting around, moving limbs, and stretching. It's weird seeing him moving on the screen and feeling the movement at the same time! At the end of our appointment she said he's around 10oz, a heart rate of 140 bpm, and quite possibly 2 days ahead of his due date, but the Dr. will be able to be more precise. She printed our some pictures for us to take home and then we were on our way. Of course we hugged it out once we got in the hall and we were all smiles the rest of the way to the car.

We took a picture to send to my mum and made our way to Babies R Us to work on more registry stuff! We then took a picture for Barry's family. Everyone was very excited. Also, Barry's parents owe us a dinner...hopefully not TacoBell-HAHA!

There ya have it! Our future Oliver Blu!

Our Dude :)

week 20!

DR. APPOINTMENT #3!

19 weeks in! Went in for appointment #3. Did my pee check in, and waited to be called in. Nurse calls me in and weighs me in at a whopping 104 lbs. Dr. comes in checks the heartbeat and cracks a few little jokes then says everything is perfect! Hearts ticking away just nicely and I'm gaining the perfect amount of weight for 19 weeks. I had to "HA!" at Barry because he think I'm not eating enough. Dr. M just said as long as I'm not eating junk food, WHICH I'M NOT, then I'll be fine. He says the main problem he gets is people overeating and overdoing it with junk food...not eating for 2, people!

Every morning Barry asks me what I'm going to eat. I usually have cereal and some fruit, but for Barry that's not enough. So he makes me a protein shake before he dilly dallys off to work. Aww what a guy :) and sometimes he makes me scrambled eggs with toast. He makes good eggs. A few times I had to go wake him up to make me eggs. I don't like eggs too much, and I don't like touching them, nor cleaning up after them, but if someone makes it for me, then I'll eat it...still not my favourite, but I'll eat it.

I've also experienced more movement than last week. Still not ninja status, just little flutters, specially right after I eat. It's still strange to me having another organism sprouting away inside of me. Now it's able to hear our voices! My mum told me to talk to it, so I said "hi". We listen to a lot of music together in the car. I read that you should play more soothing songs rather than crazy upbeat stuff since it may startle the little scaredy cat. So I toned it down a little. Times like this remind me of when I was growing up...my dad insisted that we listen to Pink Floyd in hopes that one day we'll get older and have good taste in music. Not sure how it worked out for others, but it definitely worked on me, so I'm passing the torch on to our offspring...one brick in the wall at a time...(Hah, see what I did there?)

So that's the update for now. This coming week we're going to find out the gender of our little friend, and we'll finally be able to refer to it as "he" or "she" rather than "it". We've got a little family bet started, losers buy the winners dinner. It's not looking so good for Barry's parents - hahaha!

IT MOVES!!

Putting it all together, seeing it on screen, hearing the heartbeat...it makes feeling it even more surreal I think. I wasn't even waiting around to feel anything, it wasn't even crossing my mind really. I knew around week 17...week 18 I would start feeling little things here n there. I was laying in bed...on my RIGHT side... awaiting the sandman and his big 50lb bag of sand to pour into my eyes when all of a sudden I felt a little flutter in my lower belly area. I said to myself "hmm, what?" I put my hand on top and waited a min. Then I felt another little flutter. It felt like an air bubble. A very tiny and dainty air bubble. WHOA! It's moving...that means it's alive! I texted Barry, who was at the gym doing his manly gym manly things, and let him know the offspring had just moved.

The next day, same time I tried to feel around for it. As if the night before we agreed to meet again tomorrow same time, same place for a good ol kick in the stomach. Little one left me high and dry, which is fine...can't expect them to come to you whenever you feel like it, but the next night...he felt like making contact again! Barry got to feel it too this time. I guess he was maybe expecting a big punch in the hands, but it was just a dainty little "boop". Oh also, don't youtube any videos of babies moving in the womb, it's pretty creepy. Thanks Steen. I mean unless you're into alien looking beings growing inside your body and moving around like it's a club zone. Some people find every part of pregnancy beautiful...I have yet to uncover the beauty I suppose ;)

WEEK 18!

I'm starting to feel more pregnant. So far I've gotten heartburn, more drooly, lots of headaches, some cramping, more pee breaks, really dry skin, and full body aches. The heartburn is awful. I've never got it before and one night I got the worst of it it seemed like and I woke up freaking out. I almost woke Barry up because I had no idea what to do, it hurt so bad, I wanted to cry. It's like being sick and wanting your mummy to take care of you. All I could think of was sitting there thinking to myself "please make it go away..." and within seconds it went away. Hmm..if only that worked for everything!

Drool...so awesome! I've had to really try hard not to drool on myself specially when people around me are talking about delicious food. It's like I've developed another consciousness just to look out for drool embarrassment. Drooling in my sleep is a whole different story. There's really nothing you can do. One time I was taking a nap with my little sausage dog, Arnie. We like to cuddle. Anyway, I woke up and noticed his head was soaking wet and quickly noticed the side of my face was damp. I felt so bad. I had drooled all over Arnie and he didn't even care. That's love I guess. HAH!

Apart from drooling all over myself and my dog headaches and cramps are probably another not so very awesome thing  I've encountered. I've gotten headaches before and I obviously know what a cramp feels like, but these ones are just a little different than the normal...for me anyway! The headaches seem to just hit you without warning, there's no gradual ease into it. It's either there or it isn't. That's how I've noticed it going away, all of a sudden it'll be gone. Smells set it off for sure. If it's a smell I'm not too keen on surely enough a headache wont want to miss out. Sounds too, I have yet to pin point what specific sounds set it off, but again if it's something even the least bit bothersome, it's there. Cramping kind of comes in the same fashion. It just hits and disappears. There's no subtle way for it to show up. It feels like a sharp stabby feeling sometimes, and quickly disappears after you make that ugly seizing face. There are times when the cramps kinda feel like the ordinary dull period cramps, but not so much.

OH! Let's not forget the frequent pee breaks and the feeling like your whole body is trying to kill you! I probably pee every 15-20 mins. now. Sometimes I get so tired of getting up that I try to hold it for an extra 5-10 mins. It's not comfortable, because when you gotta go, you should REALLY GO. I've gone so many times that I think all toilets seats should be built with a seat warmer. Seriously, it shouldn't cost extra...it's almost 2015. It should be a thing now. But back to the pee fest. Say you emptied your bladder 20 mins prior...not having anything to drink...having to go pee again like your life depends on it. WHERE IS IT ALL COMING FROM!? I haven't had a sip of water since the last pee break! I know someone is reading this (mum) and thinking to herself..."..tisk tisk, Affy, you need to be drinking more water than that!..."

One sec...I have to pee...

...toilet seat warmers, I'm telling you!...So that's my bladder activity recently. Oh yeah, body pains! They're so great. Easiest and quickest way I can sum it up...after gym muscle aches. The feeling you get when you've worked out a certain body part the day before, sore, can barely move, achy...That's what it feels like throughout my whole body, not so much the belly area. No the belly just seems to be doing fine at this point with the little offspring bouncing around lah-dee-dah while the rest of my body is crying out for mercy. But my belly does feel heavy. I don't know why, because it's really not that big yet, but it feels so heavy that I wish I had a wheelbarrow to carry it in. This is only 18 weeks in, so I'm sure it's going to start feeling like I'm carrying a box of bricks soon. Can't wait!

So this sums up my week 18 check in!

2nd Dr. Visit: CHECKUP!!

Week 15 Dr. Visit! I wasn't even sure why we were going to the Dr. after a month, but apparently you have to go every month for awhile, and then it becomes every other week or something. I wasn't sure what this visit was for though. Barry and I were thinking maybe we'll find out the gender this time around, but it's still a tad bit too early too tell. So we go. I check in. Pee in a cup. Sat there and waited to get called in. Dr. was running 30 mins late with his appointments so Barry sat on his phone and played car games and I sat next to him making random noises. Don't ask.

30 mins later...we get called in. Nurse weighs me in at 100.8lbs. She says, "Oh! We finally reached the triple digits!" we go into the room and she asks me if I wanted to take the flu shot. I said "yeah" and she mentioned she'd come in after the Dr. was done to poke me. She walks out and we wait again, probably 5-10 mins. Dr. comes in, we start conversing about how I've been feeling, and before I know it he's rubbing a little wand looking thing on my belly. Within seconds we can hear the baby's heartbeat! It was pretty neat. Very loud and fast, almost sounded like alien noises. It made what was already kinda real to us, even more real. Dr. M said everything was normal and that he wanted to see me in a month again and told me to stay put for my shot. He leaves and probably another 10 mins later, a nurse comes in and pokes me and leaves.
Apparently the flu shot that they give pregnant women is a little different from the one they normally give out. This one doesn't seem to cause any side effects of any kind. Which was fine with me! :D

One of the things we talked about was the sleeping situation. I've been sleeping horribly for the passed few months due to reading and hearing that you can only sleep on your left side. By this time my whole left side is sore, and it feels like I've pinched a nerve. I never get a decent nights sleep because I'm constantly shuffling around looking for a comfortable position, which I'm quite limited to begin with. So I asked Dr. M what I could do, and he basically said I could sleep however which way I wanted. ARE YOU FREAKING SERIOUS!?! THIS WHOLE TIME! He said he could write a book with all the non sense floating around about what you can or cannot do during pregnancy. That was a relief.  So that night, I slept amazingly. :)

**Like I said before...DON'T LISTEN TO ANYONE AND DON'T READ FORUMS, this is proof that a lot of info floating around is complete BS!

So that's that! So far our little naval orange sized offspring is growing normal, we've seen roughly what the little one looks like and have even heard the heart beating. Now to book my ultrasound to determine the gender!

Hello 2nd SEMESTER!

14 weeks in! I feel soooo much better than I did a few weeks ago. I don't wake up feeling like I'm going to barf, I'm not exhausted and craving naps multiple times a day, and I'm quite over saltine crackers. I wouldn't care if I never have to eat another saltine again. I feel like I've gained most of my energy back, although I have gotten a little lazy from semester 1 in the yoga and walking department. I was feeling so sluggish and yucky to go most of the time. Now that I feel better, I have to fight through the motivation aspect just to get out and do it! It'll happen. If I wan't to save my figure from getting out of control, I owe it to myself to keep going! Here's a little week 7...week 14 comparison :P

 


OH! Also, I've developed a tiny little pouch. It's not too noticeable, but to me I look like a cow. I had to buy these pant extender belt things from the maternity store the other day. It was my 1st maternity gear purchase! Anyhoo, they're these little belts that you fasten to the buttons on your jeans. You unfasten your buttons on your jeans, then you button one end to the belt and then button the other end of the belt to the other side of your jeans...if that makes sense. It's so attractive, but luckily I have hoodies and shirts that cover up the beauty. These are quite handy if you don't want to spend money on maternity pants, which I think are super ugly and unnecessary. They come in 4 sizes so when your belly gets bigger you can switch out the belts to accommodate.

I've also been looking into the Honest Company. It's a little too early to be looking at baby stuff, but it's nice to know what's out there and what they offer. They also have a bunch of stuff for pregnancy, like lotions, vitamins, and whatnot. So for those who have no idea about Honest...Jessica Alba and her husband started it. They wanted a product line that people could trust meaning all natural goods...hence the "Honest" name. They also have a monthly supply of diapers bundle they send you! It's pretty awesome. Wow, look at me. I'm nerding over diapers now...Anyway, you can order free trial kits on their website. They've got a diaper bundle trial, prenatal vitamins, and a lotion and soap pack! I got my pack in the mail this week! I do really enjoy their lotions, but I'm not a fan of he prenatal vitamins, 1 serving is 3 huge capsules. I did buy their belly balm, but from the maternity store...so I didn't have to worry about shipping. Helps keep your tummy toned and eliminates stretchmarks...and helps from getting them. It's just as good, maybe even better than the fancy brands they sell for $40 bucks. It doesn't smell like vanilla or candy or anything, but it smells fine, and it keeps your tummy soft for a really long time! I'm quite happy with it so far.

https://www.honest.com/

Little Things I'm LEARNING In the 1st Season...

I'm going to learn a whole lot along the way, but up until now I've learned a few little things that I'd like to share. Oh yeah, I say "season" rather than "trimester" because it's more fun, it's shorter, and it sounds like TV. :D

#1 (most important) - Don't listen to other people's experiences. I've noticed a lot of women tend to share the horror stories more than the good stuff. I don't know why that is. Maybe they want to scare you into thinking that it's going to happen to you, or maybe the horrible stuff is all they can remember...which is too bad. Whatever the reason, that's mostly what I've encountered. At 1st it really made me nervous specially being so new to the wonderous world of baby. I wasn't sure what to expect, so the 1st person who tells me, "you'll never lose the baby lbs. again..."or "your body will NEVER be the same!" My brain jumps to panic mode thinking "omg I can't handle this..I don't know if I want to do this!" Those women are jerks and deserve a kick in the bum! Everybody is different. Their bodies are different than yours, and they don't always have the same pregnancy experiences when it comes to pregnancy #2 or #3. So who's to say what it's actually going to be like for you? Your body will handle it the way it feels like it. As for the pregnancy fat that STAYS FOREVER...if you think about it, fat will stay forever if you let it. Just work out and it'll go away :)

#2 - You aren't eating for 2. My mum always tells me to eat whatever it is I'm craving. Mum, if you're reading this...if I did that, I'd be obese and probably die from a heart attack before I could even give birth to your grandchild. You're only supposed to consume up to 300 calories on top of your normal intake. So...maybe a slice of toast with some peanut butter and bananas. Whatever floats your boat. If you really want to eat for 2 don't complain about why you've gained so much weight and can't get rid of it!

#3 - Morning sickness and feeling crappy through the day. Keep saltine crackers in a zippy next to your bed, and a bottle of water. It'll help with the morning sickness. Before you roll out of bed snack on a cracker or 2 and chug down some water. Another thing that has helped me greatly, thanks to my mum-in-law...lemon drops and preggo pops! Carry some in your purse, your pocket, wherever. They will definitely come in handy when you feel like you're about to get sick. I've also started taking a water bottle around wherever I go. You need to keep hydrated. You'll really feel the dehydration...it's not like what it was before pregnancy. You'll literally feel like you're going to pass out. I've had a few close calls, and it's really not fun.

#4 - Don't read forums.  Like I said in #1. It's mostly filled with horror stories. If you really want to figure out whats going on with your body read either What to Expect When You're Expecting or (blah). It's filled with just facts rather than people's personal stories. If you're wondering why your boobs so huge and painful all of a sudden just read it in the book. You don't want to read it in a forum where someone might say "GO TO THE DOCTOR! IT SHOULDN'T BE THAT WAY!" Forums are also filled with weird opinions on things. Avoiding forums will keep things...not so stressful.

#5 - Dr. I'd start looking around week 7, it may take a few weeks to get booked in. Also, if the Dr. you found doesn't make you comfortable in anyway, I'd look for a new one. You don't want to deal with a jerk while you're feeling the way you do. Also, don't just pick some random Dr. just because he's a Dr. I'd ask around your circle of friends who have kids, or even your parents 1st. If not, research a little more and see what has worked for others. If anything when you do pick one and it's not the right fit, you can always look for another, it's not like you're married to the guy...

1st Dr. Visit: ULTRASOUND!!

Hello week 11! According to my "Bump" app on my phone...our little offspring is about the size of a lime. It's also time for our 1st official Dr.'s visit! Barry and I make our way over to the hospital. I do my duty: sign in, pee in a cup, and wait for our turn. Dr.'s assistant calls us in. She weighs me in at 98lbs. (gained a couple lbs...but I guess you can't really control that department!) and takes my blood pressure. All is good! Then she asks when my last PAP was. OH MY GOD. I HATE THOSE THINGS! I made sure to be clear that I didn't need one until Feb.! I thought I was going to get one anyway until she said "oh okay, then the Dr. will just give you a pelvic exam and an ultrasound." "WHEW!"

Dr. M walks in. I was so worried that he was going to be the very serious type...go in do, the job, and leave...next! This guy was different. He was really warm, made jokes, which definitely made me feel more comfortable with him. He didn't seem like he was rushing to jump to his next patient. ALTHOUGH, I did get a partial PAP, which kind of annoyed me, but I guess he has to do what he needs to do. Anyway, then we jumped into the ultrasound and within seconds we met our little lime for the 1st time, heartbeat and all! It even did a little shuffle jig for us to see. It was probably the most surreal thing I've ever seen/experienced in my entire life. It had arms and legs, and an alien shaped head, it almost looked like a little peanut. Barry and I were both really quiet, but I guess we were just speechless. All I could say was "oh my god." I looked over at Barry and he had a smile on his face. Kinda like the little smile you get when someone does an amazing magic trick in front of you and you have no idea how they did it, but all you can do is get a silly little smile and say "whaaat?! how did you do that!?" Shortly Dr. M passes us a long strip of paper which consisted of several photos of our offspring. I just passed it right along to Barry keeping my eyes on the monitor. It was so mesmerizing.

He confirmed that everything looked normal and gave us another appointment for a month later. He asked me if I had any questions, but for the life of me I couldn't think. I was so blown away by the tiny specimen floating around in my stomach. I just said "non that I could think of right now..." Then we left.

Got outside...CRAP I did have questions!!

Finding a DOCTOR!

Around 9 weeks I called Sutter Hospital to establish myself as a new patient. My sister and mother-in-law both recommended Dr. M (I wont put the full name because maybe he doesn't want me to-hah) based on personal experiences and good reputation. They both work at the hospital so their opinions definitely mattered. I got set up with 2 appointments. One with a nurse as an introductory to the wonderful world of growing a specimen in your body and one with the actual Dr. himself. Both a week apart from each other.

By the time we had our 1st nurse visit I was into my 10th week. She introduced herself and let me know that I was going to be good buddies with the staff from now on being how I was going to be in for lots of visits. I did notice a lot of pregnant women walking in and being on a 1st name basis with the secretaries and such. Anyhoo, she let me know every visit I have, upon signing in I must wander into the back and pee in a tiny little cup. Just so they can keep track of whatever may be going on in there. Or maybe they just want to start a collection of Affy pee :) HAH-gross. So took Barry and I into the room and asked us a couple health questions about ourselves and our family history. Soon she began unloading a mass amount of information on us. From what you can or can't eat to different shots I have to take and to little classes and tours that may benefit new parents. It was A LOT of information, paper, and pan-flits. Towards the end she asked if I had any questions. Guhh! Well I did lady, but all that stuff you just fed into my brain all of a sudden kind of left me speechless and overwhelmed!!

At the end of our visit she unloaded 3 baby bags of formula and bottles, which I made Barry carry. It was kind of a gift/congrats/intro to what our future was going to withhold. Then she took us downstairs to the lab where I had to give blood, which I hate doing! The guy was nice and was trying to make friendly conversation. At the time I really don't care where you've traveled sir, just please concentrate on that needle sticking out of my freaking arm! I'm not sure how many vials of blood he extracted from my little arm, but I know it was more than 2. By the end of it, my arm felt cold.

We went home and as we walked up to the door I turned and looked at Barry carrying all the baby stuff. It was the cutest thing. He looked like such a dad. One bag hanging by his shoulder and one in either hand. Made things a bit more exciting knowing that I was doing all of it with him...would be nice to split the pregnancy, but I guess evolution is going to take a while to get to that point ;)

The ANNOUNCEMENT!!

Barry and I were trying to find the perfect time to tell our parents. We didn't want to tell one and not the others, so we waited until everyone was within talking range. We had to skype my mum since she lives in Canada and we were in California at the time living with Barry's parents (which isn't bad at all when you have awesome in-laws!)

We skype called my mum. She was at my aunts house for dinner or something. She lives down the street from her so they're always together anyway. Barry and I sat there small talking with her for a little bit. "How are you...how was your day...". I said "Mum...we have to tell you something..." before I could get it out, she just gasped and yelled, "BABY?!" Barry and I just laughed because it was such a predictable reaction from her. While she was saying random stuff out of excitement, I could also hear my Aunt in the background saying a bunch of random stuff out of excitement too. They're Persian, so there's a lot of stuff, that I can't quite translate, being why it's random. She's always wanted to be a Grandma and always said "I can't wait to be a Grandmaaaa..." She cried tears of joy and we said our "I love you's" and said, "goodnite".

My dad lives in Turkey, so I just shot him a quick text. He was so happy and speechless, and went off and told his whole family. He's a very busy guy so this announcement was quite brief. Every so often he'll text me asking how I'm doing and how excited he is to be a Grandfather.

Now to tell Barry's parents... As awesome as they are, we were trying to play out the scenario in our heads. We weren't sure if they were going to freak out or if they were going to be happy. Which made us feel a little anxious about it. We tried to come up with clever ideas on how to bring it up, so we decided to stick a hot dog bun in the oven. You know...a bun in the oven... I said "You're dad is probably going to think we're going to have hot dogs for dinner.." So while his parents were hanging out, we called them into the kitchen. I was so nervous I couldn't even look. Barry told them to open the oven. So they did. They stood there for a few seconds and they said, "what are we looking at?" Barry's dad said, "are we having hot dogs?" (LOL-totally called it on that one). His mother said, "what?" then turned to look at me and I looked at her with probably a very guilty look on my face. I kept looking at Barry and he had this constant giant smile on his face :D Once they figured it out, they said congratulations and we all hugged it out. They were happy for us after all!

By this time I believe I was 6 weeks pregnant. We didn't want to announce it to the world just yet, nor do we want to be one of those annoying facebook couples that post every single detail about their pregnancy and baby to flood everyone's news feed. This isn't the Truman Show! I admit, I do post a lot of puppy pictures...but this is different! We also didn't want to announce it because it was too soon into the pregnancy. Technically you shouldn't announce it to anyone until you're over your 1st trimester due to possible miscarriage and such, but we wanted to tell our parents just because they would be a great support system to have even if things went wrong. Besides, I don't think I'd be able to hide a pregnancy from Barry's mum for a whole trimester with all the morning sickness and such coming my way. We did let it slip to a few close friends who are pretty much family to us anyway. So by this time our immediate family knew and the close friends.

The Moment of TRUTH!!

So I guess around noon time on Sep 7th, 2014 I took a pregnancy test just for the sake of confirmation that I wasn't pregnant.

  Let's back up a week or so...I was mentally preparing myself for my monthly visitor. If she's on time, it was going to coincide with our camping trip. Guhhh! Of course! Meanwhile my body has been going through the notions like normal, feeling moody, tired, ovaries cramping ever so slightly...just to let me know she's on her way! I obviously didn't think anything of it. I'd share this information with my husband, Barry and his response was always "...hmm maybe you're pregnant." "Umm...no", I'd say. Then at one point I noticed a constant metallic smell...lasted about a day or 2. I've heard that's a symptom, but again didn't think anything of it and of course Barry went on with "maybe you're pregnant!" IGNORED.

  We went on our camping trip. Had fun, did the campfire thing, had some beers, went on the boat, did some tubing and bouncing around, went wake-boarding, got tossed around into the water a few times...it was all jolly fun. Aunt Flo still hasn't shown up, but I was relieved...camping and dealing with that sort of plumbing is not my idea of awesome in anyway. I'm pretty irregular to begin with, meaning my visitor usually doesn't show up according to the cycle calculators. I'm usually a couple days early or late...I've been a few weeks late before, so this obviously didn't faze me much. Barry went on with his "...maybe you're..."

 We got home from camping and I decided to take the test, mainly so I can tell Barry I'm not and he could stop telling me I was. I had one test laying around, so I took it, peed, and waited. A few seconds later I see a blue line appear. Then...another blue line appeared. I stared at it thinking maybe somehow one of the lines would disappear. On the side of the test stick it has the indicators of what the single blue line and double blue line mean. Single is a negative, but I had to double check, so I pulled the instructions out of the box. After about a few minutes of staring hoping it's going to undo somehow, and my brain saying, "omgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomg..." I got up and called Barry upstairs. He came up stairs and as soon as he got to the bathroom door I pulled the test out and his face just went :O We both stood there for a minute staring at each other quietly. He eventually said "oh my god" and walked into the bedroom, where I followed him with the same face. We both accepted it saying "I guess it was meant to be" and hugged it out.