Books, Books and More Books!

As a new mommy to be and an avid book worm, you can imagine how quickly I ran out to the nearest book store bought an abundance of pregnancy/baby books.


For anyone trying to conceive, I highly suggest the book “What to Expect Before Your Expecting”. This book gave me so much insight into the preparation your body needs to create a baby. This is where I learned about the ovulation kits, prenatal vitamins, the best times to do the baby dance and everything I need to know about my body and when to tell it’s ready for a baby. It is the TTC Bible!




The first book any new pregnant mom should read is What to Expect When Your Expecting. Fortunately, I had this book already; it was giving to me my one of my dearest friends (SH) when I told her we were TTC. This book is I believe the most well know pregnancy book out there. It is the Pregnancy Bible! The only thing I can really say about it is that touches base on everything you might need to know!



I just bought a really interesting book called Your Pregnancy and Birth. It’s pretty informational. It was created by The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologist. So the information in this book is the backed up by actual physicians. This book is more about the medical side of the pregnancy – what kind of things your doctor is going to look for. What your doctor is going to do at your visits. And then of course what happens during pregnancy.




Your Pregnancy Week by Week is another great book I’m reading. As the title says, it goes through your pregnancy week by week. It is truly amazing at how so much happens in just week. One week your baby is still an embryo, and the very next week it is forming a heart! Before you know it’s week 9 and your baby can now move its little limbs and body! In this book, not only are you reading about the changes your baby is making weekly, you are also learning about how your body is changing and symptoms you will start seeing that week. Unfortunately, I have the 4th edition, and the most current is the 6th edition. And I think another one is due out in March.

Surprise! You’re going to be grandparents!

When you are trying to conceive(TTC) and your super excited about, all you can think about is when the time comes, how are you going to tell your immediate family? I have spent hours, day, and weeks thinking about how I’m going to tell our parents they are going to be grandparents. How was I going to tell our sisters they were going to be aunts?

Well I can tell you that you can plan all you want, but when you find out your having a baby, all our thinking and planning can go right out the window. That’s what happened with us. So, I’ll share the plan, and then how it really happened.
There was no doubt in our mind that our sisters would be the 1st to know. Secretly, I think they wanted it the most. But I also knew our parents would be thrilled and welcome the news with smiles and open arms.

The Plan
As soon as we find out we are expecting I would make a shirt for each sister. Each shirt will say “I’m gonna be an aunt!” Since both sisters are away at school, mine (19) and his (21), would get a package in the mail with instruction to call before opening. What a surprise uh?

How it really Happened
We couldn’t wait. So we deiced the day after we found out to conference call them and tell them at the same time. Well of course both were in class. Really? Who takes night classes?! As they get out of class they each called and we shared the news. Needless to say we get two very excited reactions. One was even a very high pitch squeal!

The Plan
The plan that I was leaning toward was to invite both sets of parents for dinner. This would have been a 2 hour drive for my parents, so it would have been a week or two before we would be able to do it. We would have dinner and be enjoying our get together, we would somehow, in a creative or clever way, tell them they were going to be grandparents. Robert of course wanted to just say “So you are all so old you’re going to be grandparents!”

How it really happened
We couldn’t take it anymore, so we went over to his parents and spilled the beans in the kitchen over leftover brownies. My mother-in-law thought we were joking! But after promising her this was something we wouldn’t joke about, the news sunk in. There were hugs and questions and two very happy parents!

Telling my parents was going be the hard one. They weren’t going to be available over the weekend, so we were going to have to do it during the week. I wanted to do it face to face, but the only thing I could think of was using our webcams. So we used Skype (pretty cool little program) and that’s how we told them. I don’t think they were that shocked, but they were defiantly very happy!


So as you can see the hours thinking about the perfect way to share the news, just didn’t happen the way I had expected. But I’m so much happier now that they all know and we can all share the excitement together!

Set the Timer, Cause there is a Bun in the Oven!

In early December, we decided that we were ready to start our family. I ran out and bought the book “What to Expect before Your Expecting.” I stated taking prenatal vitamins. I bought an ovulation kit and kicked the birth control. We were in the right mind set, we wanted a baby, and we are excited and happy.

After months of planning our first vacation, we headed to Gatlinburg, TN for New Years. We wanted to bring in the 2010 with as much positivity as we could, 2009 just hadn’t been a good year. We had the most amazing time. The baby dance was fun and excited and we couldn’t get enough of it (I know – that might be too much information Dad, if your reading). When it was time to go back to the real world, our marriage was as strong as ever and I’d never loved my Robert as much as I did now.

The morning of January 24, I woke up feeling super happy. I just knew today was going to be the day I found out I was going to be a mommy. I had my suspicions; my boobs had been so unbelievable sore in the last week and half that I was near tears. I had no sign of Aunt Flow and man-o-man; I had heart burn every stinking day for the past week! I’m pretty sure I nearly skipped down the aisles of Wal-Mart while I bought that pregnancy test. I didn’t care if people stared; I just knew I was going to be a mommy.

Dear Hubby (Robert) was with his parents at a convention, and I just couldn’t wait to find out. So I did it. I took the test. And it took exactly three minutes for the test to be ready to read. At this time so many things started racing through my head:

1)This would be the longest three minutes of my life.
2)I was all by myself – how was I supposed to handle this news by myself?
3)Whose idea was this anyways? I can’t take this kind of anxiety!

So I ran out of the bathroom nearly locking that test inside! I called one of my dearest friends (SH) and yelled into the phone “I took a pregnancy test – it’s in the bathroom – I’m all alone and I’m freaking out!” After some coaxing on both our parts, I slowly opened the door – and there it was. Two very pink lines! I was pregnant. I WAS PREGNANT! The tears came shortly after that realization kicked in.

After hanging up with SH, I just sat there and started at the test and smiled. I needed to tell Robert as soon as possible, but he wasn’t due home for another three hours! And he was with is parents. We hadn’t talked about when we would tell people we were expecting, but I knew I wanted only us to know for right now. The worst part of me got the best of me, and I broke down and called him. He was in the backseat of his folk’s car. Our convo went something like this:

Robert: Hey Babe.
Me: Hey! So, I can’t wait for you to get home!
Robert: Ok
Me: No, like I REALLY can’t wait till you get home!!
Robert: (deep breath) I know. I’m in the car with my parents.
Me: Ok. But you get what I’m saying right?
Robert: (long pause) yes….
Me: Ok Good!
Robert: I love you.

Needless to say, when he got home even though he was so happy he was also mad! I know. I know. I shouldn’t have done that. But come-on, I was alone and all I wanted to do was tell the love of my life he was going to be a daddy!

So, set the timer folks, because there is a bun in the oven and around the 1st of October, we will have our own itty, bitty, little baby!!