The adventure begins!

Almost a year ago, we started our whirlwind adventure that would bring us our adorable little boy, Aiden!

We tried the whole anticipation of waiting to test and buckled and took a test early to a faint but very much there positive line the day before 4th of July. We told our immediate family members straight away and hubby corralled me into telling everyone else... with the reasoning that if something were to happen, that at least we were able to celebrate the tiny, precious little life we'd created together. We did save our friends and family of seeing posts of the positive test although I'm pretty sure a photo of it is still on my old phone, I had to prove to myself it was real!

Roll forward a few weeks to friends visiting out of town, we went to Disneyland to make the dreams come true of a dear friend who had never been and is still battling cancer, we had a great weekend and even got to dine in Club 33! (itty bitty dot of a baby got to share a fantastic meal with me lol). I was careful and didn't ride any of the 'big' E-Ticket rides and felt fine. A few days later when I was getting ready to go to the movies with hubby I had slight cramping when I woke up and to my first-time-mum-to-be horror some bleeding. So it was off to the Hospital instead of the movies and numerous tests later we were told it could be a miscarriage, the scan the ER performed showed just the amniotic sac and the yolk (it feeds baby until the placenta grows) at almost 6 weeks along. No fetal pole or heartbeat observed at that time but the measurements they took matched with our dates, they sent me home on bedrest and told to come back in two days for repeat blood tests. Those repeat blood tests were so much more relieving as they not only doubled, they almost tripled! (cue family and friends suggesting twins haha). After that we had to wait to have my booking appointment with my Obstetrician, two long agonizing weeks wondering if baby was doing ok...

So our fears were settled down and we saw our little guy properly for the first time, we both welled up when we saw him and heard his heartbeat. I was taken off bed rest and could resume activities slowly. We started talking over names we'd previously thought of and settled for Amelia Rose for a girl and Aiden Nathaniel for a boy (yep we reneged on his middle name several times). Passing several baby stores on the way home we resisted buying anything baby related and nicknamed baby sonic because he was all curled up in a ball for his scan.

We celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary a few days later and thought over how the next anniversary we have, we could have a 5 month old baby if everything went well. We went about normal business on buying gifts for each other and decided we wanted a funky new purple toaster and a dish chair, exclaiming on how we were sure I had a tiny 8 week bump starting to show. and how bad my morning sickness was getting, thank goodness for Zofran that the ER sent me home with and my primary Dr wrote me several prescriptions for!

We relaxed for the next few weeks, taking trips to Disneyland and I behaved again, we took our cousin's eldest daughter for the day and had a blast, I know it made me even more anxious to have a safe and healthy pregnancy, I so could not wait until the day we get to take our baby there and various other places. at the end of the month we had my second visit (almost 12 weeks) to the Obstetricians and she did another scan, not so much a sonic the hedgehog anymore, he even waved his arms around.

Our Obstetrician said don't go running out and buying blue, blue blue but it did look like he was a boy but she wouldn't confirm and gave us a referral to get sequential first trimester screenings done at the office in the next building over the following week (more scans yay!)

To be continued...