So, if you read yesterday’s post, you know that I am pregnant. *smirky face bursting with happiness*
Or, as John enjoys saying, “I banged you and got you knocked up!”
Either way.
A few of you have asked if we were trying. The answer to that is actually both yes and no.
See, when I got pregnant with Braden, we were REALLY trying. I was taking my basal body temperature every day at 6am before I started moving (thermometer and notepad on bedside table) and then charting it online to create ovulation prediction graphs. I was using ovulation predictor kits – Pee on a stick every day and it will say YES! or NO! so that you know if you should RUN HOME AND DO IT.
I was testing and charting my cervical position, openness, and mucous, for crying out loud! You haven’t lived until you’ve swished your finger around in there thinking, “is that high and medium or medium and open?” and “I think this is egg-white mucous, it’s pretty slimy….”
THAT’S trying.
This? Well, this was basically trying the relaxed way. As in, I stopped taking The Pill at the end of January to regain my libido and shrug off the worst of my depression. (And it worked! Hurrah!) But John and I discussed everything in detail, and decided that we wanted to get pregnant sometime this year, anyway… so we figured we would just forget about trying NOT to get pregnant.
So basically… we tried by not NOT trying. Hah! Looks like it worked for us. We feel incredibly blessed and are grateful beyond words.
The other question I’ve been getting is: when’s the due date/how far along are you?
I would love to tell you… but I cannot do so yet with certaintly. (And the control freak in me is positively FREAKING OUT ABOUT THIS, by the way. She’s just having seizures and melt-downs, pulling her hair out in clumps and FROTHING AT THE MOUTH.)
My last cycle was only 3 weeks long. Usually I’m a 4-weeker. Ovulation is generally during the second week, if nothing is fertilized, my period happens in week 4. Last month, “my period” happened in week 3. This both weirded me out and upset me. See… that tends to be a bad sign, because if your cycle is too short, you don’t even have the chance to become pregnant. Stick that together with what I learned from my Endocrinologist – women with Hashimoto’s (like me) often have trouble conceiving – and you had one worried Baby Momma. It was also right when we were moving out of Mold House… so I was already stressed. So, I just assumed my body was BLAH and I didn’t even take a test.
But upon reflection? That could have been implantation bleeding. Implantation, you see, occurs 6-13 days after ovulation (like, possibly in your third week, fyi). Well, that last “period” was also very light and very short.
The point of all of that drawn-out blahblahblah? It’s possible we conceived either Mid-March or Early April. And we’re not absolutely sure which!
Sooooo. The Carrolls are packin’ it up early Tuesday morning and heading to the lab at the OBGYN’s office. There, blood will be drawn and tested for pregnancy hormone or hCG. If the hormone levels are very, very low, the nurse says it is almost certain I conceived just recently. If they are above “10,000″ (direct quote from her) it indicates a pregnancy further along, and I can have an ultrasound for precise measurement. She says the labs should be back by Tuesday afternoon, so I’ll keep you all posted.
And before long, I may even be able to put up one of those cheesy sidebar widgets where you can watch my Floating Virtual Baby grow and imagine you’re seeing into my very own, real, wet and slimy uterus!
YAY!
#1 by Karen on April 22, 2008 - 12:14 AM
LOL… that’s how we get pregnant too: By not not trying.
Hey, whatever works.
I’m happy for you guys. What an adventure this will be!
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#2 by karla ~ looking towards heaven on April 22, 2008 - 12:47 AM
I had the implantation bleeding with every one of my pregnancies. Always messed with me and I never really knew when I was due. So I don’t know whether my kids were early or not…
xo ~K
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#3 by Kara - down to earth mommy on April 22, 2008 - 1:05 AM
yeah the not not trying brought our 2nd too!
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#4 by frogpondsrock on April 22, 2008 - 1:27 AM
Yay!!! congratulations… *does a happy dance*
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#5 by river on April 22, 2008 - 2:05 AM
Yay, can’t wait for the widget.
#6 by Taz on April 22, 2008 - 3:34 AM
woot..
so happy for you..
i am have someone to be pregnant with.. hehe..
i am 8 weeks on friday.. woot woot..
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#7 by Marylin on April 22, 2008 - 3:53 AM
That’s how we got pregnant with both of ours. Came off the pill and decided to not be so careful
Really chuffed for ya!
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#8 by Veronica on April 22, 2008 - 4:14 AM
Nice to know I’m not the only weird one with the mucus and the cervix and everything.
Hehe!
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#9 by MizFit on April 22, 2008 - 4:57 AM
SO EXCITED FOR YOU and SO HOPING that John really said/says that.
I like to imagine that he’s so similar to my Renaissance Man in that way.
xo xo,
M.
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#10 by Xbox4NappyRash on April 22, 2008 - 5:18 AM
I saw the title in my reader and came running hoping for the missing piece of the puzzle…and you tell me ye just ‘did it’… bah.
and seriously, January? Gimme a break…
;0)
congrats!
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#11 by Veronica Mitchell on April 22, 2008 - 5:18 AM
Congrats again.
We had to do the same thing to figure out when this baby was conceived. So we have a roughly accurate idea now.
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#12 by Angeline on April 22, 2008 - 5:31 AM
hey the widget thing would be great! can’t wait for it!
feeling like shouting-to-the-world, “I am pregnant”, ya?!
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#13 by Lisa- Domestic Accident on April 22, 2008 - 6:39 AM
Congratulations. Hope your numbers are high (but not twins or triplets high). Here’s to a healthy and happy 9 months!
#14 by Krystyn on April 22, 2008 - 6:53 AM
I love my floating baby. We did the same…not trying but trying and it worked both times. I guess I’m lucky I didn’t have to do the temp thing!
Here’s to a great 9 months…or maybe 7 or 8!
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#15 by dkaye on April 22, 2008 - 6:53 AM
Congratulations! Here’s to hoping you have an uneventful 40some weeks!
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#16 by Angela on April 22, 2008 - 7:05 AM
So exciting! Congrats again! Can’t wait to hear when you are due.
I took a HPT last week and it was positive too!
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#17 by Assertagirl on April 22, 2008 - 7:06 AM
I laughed out loud when I read what John said…my husband would say the exact same thing.
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#18 by ALISON on April 22, 2008 - 7:15 AM
So exciting!
I have to admit, I don’t want to have another baby just yet but I totally want one of those widgets!!
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#19 by anne on April 22, 2008 - 7:25 AM
Husbands can be so eloquent…
I have always been irregular except on the Pill, which you obviously can’t take when you are trying to get knocked up. An HPT told me I was pregnant around New Year’s Eve, but I had NO idea when I was due. And the blank stares I got from receptionists, medical assistants, etc, when I told them my last period was actually in September (true, and it was a miscarriage on top of that) and here it was January… well, at least I got in to see an MD right away! I didn’t like the uncertainty of not knowing how far along I was.
Congratulations again! I hope you can get an U/S today so you know when the next Carroll is making an appearance… and those first glimpses into your uterus are so priceless. I am so excited for you!
anne’s last blog post..belly monday: 22 weeks
#20 by Lou Lohman on April 22, 2008 - 7:33 AM
When I first came home from the service (lo, those many years ago) we had a tavern and it was kind of the neighborhood watering hole, gathering place, news center, etc. I used to tend bar a lot, I got to know a LOT of people, and before too long, I had gained a ‘reputation’. Any time somebody came into the bar and announced that “So and So” was pregnant, my Mom would immediately look at ME and stare, with a deep, penetrating stare, trying to determine whether or not I was the guilty party. So, just for old times sake, “No, it wasn’t ME, Ma.”
Congratulations, Lotus. Let’s see that widget!
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#21 by Adrienne on April 22, 2008 - 7:40 AM
I had implantation bleeding with my second pregnancy. I thought I had gotten my period too, but it was just light and spotty so I tested. The first pregnancy I spotted off and on until week 17. But he’s 5 now, so all was ok!
I can’t wait until you post results of the testing today!!!
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#22 by Hawt & Bothered on April 22, 2008 - 7:41 AM
Can you move up the appointment a bit? I can’t function until I know more. Respectfully, Ms. Hawt
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#23 by Kecia on April 22, 2008 - 7:50 AM
Ok, I totally just learned more about female reproduction than all my years in school. You are amazing.
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#24 by autumn dahlia on April 22, 2008 - 8:06 AM
Yay baby!! That’s awesome!
Everyone always says that it happens when you stop stressing about it… and let the MAGIC happen.
{insert porn music here}
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#25 by the planet of janet on April 22, 2008 - 8:18 AM
oooh, i love the little widgety thing. i like to watch for the moment that it turns from a lima bean into a recognizable baby.
yeah, i do need to get a life
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#26 by jennifer on April 22, 2008 - 8:33 AM
Yeah, a baby !!!!!!
Congrats, I am so excited for you.
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#27 by Junebug on April 22, 2008 - 8:46 AM
Oh, I did that basal thermometer thing before my first child and finally gave up and got pregnant anyway too.
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#28 by MP on April 22, 2008 - 8:47 AM
I’m honorded to be here from conception (lol) to birth of The Sarcastic Baby!!
YEAH!!
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#29 by Sadie on April 22, 2008 - 8:55 AM
Congrats again!! Things like that usually tend to happen at a time when we aren’t really expecting/trying. I’m so happy for you!! What a wonderful way to start your ‘new’ life out of that mold house!!!
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#30 by Kim on April 22, 2008 - 9:30 AM
I am so flipping excited for you and John.. Congrats on the new little life in your belly!!!
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#31 by justmylife on April 22, 2008 - 9:34 AM
I didn’t try for any of mine, they just surprised me. Can’t wait for the widget.
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#32 by Lisa Milton on April 22, 2008 - 10:12 AM
*congrats*
#33 by K on April 22, 2008 - 10:33 AM
OOhh it never occurred to me you might have more than one in there… here’s hoping for multiples!! *evil laugh* And no, I probably won’t be able to visit with karleigh. Darn summer courses.
#34 by Christie on April 22, 2008 - 11:36 AM
Send some of those pregnant vibes over here! I got pregnant like that with my first one and now I am doing all the moucus/membrane, charting, high/low, everything now. It’s so annoying!!!
I am still so excited for you!!!
Christie’s last blog post..MIA = Mucus In Action
#35 by Sleeping Mommy on April 22, 2008 - 12:51 PM
I really don’t have time to be doing this today, but I just has to when I read you were pregnant. CONGRATULATIONS!!!
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#36 by cynematic on April 22, 2008 - 1:09 PM
Congratulations!!! Wow, what great news!
Hope it’s a smooth ride for you.
#37 by Memarie Lane on April 22, 2008 - 1:10 PM
I wish doctors didn’t put such emphasis on the EDD. With both of mine the dates were way off. My midwife has agreed not to “schedule” an EDD, and we’ll just see how I measure and such as we go along. When people ask me I tell them early October, but don’t give a date. I’m going to tell my MIL Oct. 15 if she asks, so that if she plans to visit the baby will already be born this time. She visited me the week of my scheduled EDD with the first two, and I’m convinced that if she hadn’t been around I would have gone into labor much sooner. In fact with Max, I went into labor on our way home from the airport after dropping her off!
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#38 by ImpostorMom on April 22, 2008 - 1:12 PM
Yay, congrats! I will live vicariously through you and all the other preggos surrounding me lately. Not yet completely ready to make our family even again.
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#39 by Shannon on April 22, 2008 - 1:14 PM
Is it freaky that I love to hear about other people’s experiences getting pregnant?
Congrats!
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#40 by Jennifer on April 22, 2008 - 1:47 PM
So you haven’t analyzed this much have you?
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#41 by jill on April 22, 2008 - 1:52 PM
wow. you’re like telling way way early. sheesh.
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#42 by Allison (aka AngelGal) on April 22, 2008 - 1:55 PM
woo hoo again!
Never charted. Never had to—before D I was like clockwork. Before P…well, I still have to write my birth story post, so you can tune in then for that. But it’s almost like I said it would be the perfect time to get pregnant, and boom he was there. We were trying.
Now we’re not really not trying, but we’re not trying. We’re sticking with the method that worked so well for us before P. But then I wasn’t nearly as regular as I am now. So I only let activity happen in the first 2 weeks after my period.
Hmm, let’s name this comment “more things than you really wanted to know about my reproductive health/history” as well as using that as the title for my birth story. Which I will now (finally) go and work on. I’ve already got Ramblings by Reba’s How I Met My Honey post WRITTEN (with T’s little addition from yesterday afternoon even), but I’ve yet to write out my birth and breastfeeding stories
I feel so bad about that, but March was Hell.
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#43 by 'cuz I'm the mommy, that's why! on April 22, 2008 - 2:06 PM
Congratulations! I am so happy for the three of you! I tagged you for a meme http://peddlincrazy.blogspot.com/2008/04/memin-to-oldies.html
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#44 by Tiff@Three Peas in a Pod on April 22, 2008 - 2:33 PM
YAY! Congratulations! All mine . . .the doc told me there was a slim to none chance i could ever have children. . .Well He was wrong. I got preggers on our honey moon, two months after he was born i got preggers again (miscarried) and then 5 months later got preggers again with our last baby!
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#45 by Shannymar on April 22, 2008 - 2:33 PM
I am SO glad it was easier for you to conceive this time! I am so excited to see floating baby in your sidebar, too. Both my girls were conceived by stopping the pill and not NOT trying to get pregnant. I love that way.
Are you hoping for a boy or girl? Or no preference? And don’t give me any of that “I just want it to be healthy” crap. I can’t think of any one who wants their baby to be born with three heads so give us the low down, are you hoping it has a PENIS or a VA-JAY-JAY??
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#46 by HappyCampers on April 22, 2008 - 2:35 PM
Love technology & glad we’ll all know when Baby #2 will be ready
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#47 by Kathryn on April 22, 2008 - 2:47 PM
Thank heavens for technology, huh? Can’t wait to hear the due date news.
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#48 by A Jill of All Trades on April 22, 2008 - 2:52 PM
I used the rhythm method all my life while getting it on and it worked very well for me.
So I think when we try, I’ll know exactly when to go for it….”to get banged and knocked up.”
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#49 by AMomTwoBoys on April 22, 2008 - 3:42 PM
Yay! Whatever works!
#50 by rachel on April 22, 2008 - 5:40 PM
Lotus! Congrats honey!
What a wonderful first blog of yours to read upon my return to the internetz!
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#51 by Tasina on April 22, 2008 - 5:57 PM
Really happy for ya chica.
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#52 by Jess on April 22, 2008 - 7:43 PM
YAY!!! A Baby is awesome news!! Congrats hun
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#53 by Angie on April 22, 2008 - 7:58 PM
Pregnant by not trying always worked for us! My grandma always says, “women in our family are so fertile, all he has to do is hang his pants on the bedpost and we’re pregnant.” ….like so many other grandma’s have said, I’m sure.
We are a bunch of fertile muthas.
Congrats again.
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#54 by Sue on April 23, 2008 - 2:11 AM
Not trying got me my kids. With my oldest, I was in high school, so, well, you can pretty much figure out I was NOT trying. With my son, I had only been off the pill one month, and we were doing what you guys did, and we had the audacity to be surprised when it came sooner than we thought it would!
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#55 by AnnD on April 23, 2008 - 10:07 AM
I missed this yesterday because I was vomiting profusely. But, not because of a pregnancy! I can’t wait to go through a Sarcastic Mom pregnancy with you!!! Start putting up the belly pics girl! You know we wanna see your baby bean’s home for the next 8-9 months!
Emma was conceived the same way Braden was; very planned out with OPK’s and BBT’s every day. We are planning on making #2 about this time next year and I’m guessing I will be just as scientific as I was the first time around.
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#56 by crunchy domestic goddess on April 23, 2008 - 5:56 PM
How wonderful! Congratulations, Lotus.
That’s kind of how it was with us too. We were REALLY REALLY trying for Ava, and it just sort of happened with Julian.
Hope you have a wonderful pregnancy.
Amy
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#57 by Tanya on April 23, 2008 - 6:07 PM
I think that would be the best way, a fantastic surprise too when it happens. I’m so happy for you. I read your blog everyday and now it just gets better!
That’s the way my partner wants it to happen, naturally and unexpectedly. He also thinks that it will be more exciting if we don’t know the sex until he or she is born. I wasn’t keen on this idea at first, but now I’m warming to it. (mostly becuase I don’t like baby pink and blue and that way I couldn’t get anything baby pink or blue for them.)
anyway, good luck with it all!
#58 by Dawn on April 23, 2008 - 9:52 PM
mmm cervical mucus. you’ll never crack an egg with the same point of view again.
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#59 by Summer on April 23, 2008 - 10:57 PM
I swear everyone is pregnant in the mommy blogosphere right now. I’m a bit scared. LOL
Can’t wait to find out how far along you are.
Summer’s last blog post..Raw And Uncensored
#60 by Karen MEG on April 24, 2008 - 11:22 AM
Fantastic Lotus! That’s the best way to get pregnant, when you’re not trying, or at least not trying too hard.
So happy for you!!
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#61 by Kat on April 24, 2008 - 3:31 PM
“if your cycle is too short, you don’t even have the chance to become pregnant” – that’s news to my uterus… my cycle was always 21-25 days, and I got pregnant the first time when my husband just looked longingly in my direction…
I found out recently that 3 of my friend back home are pregnant too!
I’m jealous. OK?
#62 by Michelle on April 24, 2008 - 7:23 PM
Congratulations…Us too got pregnant without really trying *big smile*,,all the best for a great pregnancy…
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#63 by Tracy on April 24, 2008 - 9:58 PM
I cannot even tell you how excited I am for you. I was on the phone with my MIL and was scrolling down the post and saw the pic of the pee stick and started screaming. My MIL thought I was being attacked by an axe murderer. LOL Congrats!!!!! btw…. if its a boy… My first boy is Braeden. My second boy is Malachai. Just sayin’. It’s a rockin name! LOL
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#64 by Tracy on April 24, 2008 - 9:59 PM
also btw… I am kinda jealous. Even though I know I don’t need another one right now… everyone is preggers! And I want to be too… LOL
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#65 by Jill on April 25, 2008 - 12:40 PM
So glad to hear about someone with Hashimoto’s getting PG! We’ve been trying for so long – recently found out about my thyroid issue – and all the testing that goes with it. Will keep checking back to hear the fabulous progress with baby #2.
Congrats! Jill
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#66 by ourcrookedtree on April 25, 2008 - 8:50 PM
daddy would say “I slipped on past the goalie”.
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#67 by Jamie on April 25, 2008 - 9:47 PM
We got pregnant with Miss A (my youngest) by “not trying,” too, and I got knocked up IMMEDIATELY!
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