October 28th and a BFP

I wouldn't have even tested early had I not been feeling so "off".  I had a week long headache before I got pregnant with Kamden and had started to have the same again.  Of course I thought it was either blood pressure related or blood sugars, so I ignored it for about 3 days.  When it didn't let up and started having nausea along with it thought, I started to get curious.  I tried explaining away the nausea as the effects of GERD.  Finally on Thursday night (10/28) I gave in and took a HPT.  I was supposed to wait 5 minutes and then read the results, but the directions mentioned it may take up to 15 minutes for full results.  At 10 minutes, I saw the FAINTEST of lines.

 

9dpo

Of course, it wasn't dark enough that I'd take it at face value and start announcing to the world I was pregnant.  I took another first thing in the morning and had the same type result so I went out and got a digital test.   Since a digital test reads a significantly higher level of HCG than the "dip strips" I had used for the other test times, I didn't expect to see anything significant...

10dpo

When I saw that single word come up on the screen, I almost collapsed.  I mean, sure, we had been actively trying for several months, but with having had a relapse of endometriosis and having read up on it and learned it relapses worse many times, I expected at the very least 6 months of actively trying and likely longer.  Kamden had been praying from day one of our decision to go off of birth control for a "baby from Jesus", and I firmly believe that God heard and answered that innocent prayer. In fact, that's how I told Jeff.  I brought out the test and said, "Well babe, I think God answered Kamden's prayers."

11dpo

I did believe that beautiful word on the digital test...but I wanted to see those two lines that everyone who is on the TTC journey prays to see each month.  On what would be the day before my period was due, I saw those two lines, and even though I already knew, it confirmed it to me.  I am pregnant.