July 10 2012

July 10th 2012 ... A day In my life I will never forget.

On this day in 2012 I was suffering from and eye infection and I knew my body didn't feel quite the same and after suffering for a few weeks with my eye being swollen I decided it was time to 

swallow my pride and head to the doctor.

Little did I know it wasn't just an eye infection I was carrying..

My eye was in extreme pain and a little black and blue,

The Dr had asked me if my boyfriend had beat me and of course I was appalled that this question was even asked because there was no way there was any truth to that

Dave could never/ would never ever hurt me. Then the Dr did some blood work to make sure I didn't have a blood infection called mrsa. The lab tech came back in and gave me my results....

He said " Well you don't have mrsa but did you know you were 2 1/2 months pregnant?" 

I was in shock, not just because there was a little life inside of me but because I was told I was 2 1/2 months along! Luckily I had my mom with me because my eye was really swollen and I was unsure of what they would have done to my eye to relieve the pain. When I left that office I felt like everything was in slow motion. I had no clue how I was going to tell Dave nor did I know how he would react. I was petrified but a little excited to. So many emotions wrapped into one. 

Dave had called and told me he was going to play disc golf and I asked him to come home because we needed to talk, he then went on to ask me to just tell him, I kept saying Id rather wait till you got home and he said "Jess what on earth cant you tell me over the phone, unless your pregnant, Are you pregnant?" I then burst into tears and told him "YES! but this isn't how I wanted to tell you !" the other end of the phone got silent for a few minutes and he then said we would talk after he got home but he needed to let thing sink in.

Once Dave came home we made pro and con's list of everything, It was our mission that whatever choice we made it was going to be the one that we both could live with and be able to give this baby the best life.

At the end of the conversations and 2 days of allowing the initial shock take over and fear we decided we were going to keep the baby and become parents together, Dave and I had been discussing marriage previously and we have been together for 4 years at this time and couldn't be happier with our relationship that it seemed only fitting to take on the wonderful hectic world of parenthood.

After telling Dave's sister (who is also expecting) she got me in with the OBGYN rather quickly and turns out I was only approx 5 weeks pregnant so I wasn't as far a long as the original person had said. It was that moment during that ultrasound I realized what a blessing it was to be growing a person and to be given such a wonderful gift. We found out by this ultrasound that our baby would be due

 March 20th 2013

2012 brought me one amazing gift and I'm very excited to welcome in 2013 and our newest addition to the family