Sharing 'THE' news!

Me & V checked the HPT result together! I could not take the anxiety alone of waiting for the pink line to appear or not appear. Seeing the line appear was the first happiest moment in this journey and I am glad we shared it.

Out of habit I captured a selfie to preserve the memory! :-)

We told our mothers the next day (I could not keep it away from my mom). We planned to tell everyone after I completed the first critical trimester. Everyone including our siblings were told after the 3 month mark was completed.

Sharing the news with loved one is a different experience altogether. Everyone is happy and thrilled. The joy is something different and cannot be explained. Hugs and congratulatory wishes all around.

Of course you receive tips and advice from well wishers, friends and family. Some are interesting, some just out of the world. You end up nodding, smiling and saying yes to everything.

I shall post on things not to say to a Pregnant Woman as well :-)

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First Visit to the doctor

Once the home pregnancy test kit declared I was pregnant, it was time to visit a gynac and get it confirmed. After taking all the necessary history and details (mainly the LMP - Last Month Period Date) she advised a sonography to confirm.

Pregnancy is calculated week-wise based on the LMP date, so when I went for the check up (4th Sep '14), I was 5.2 weeks pregnant - meaning the embryo was only around 3 weeks old. A fetal heart pole is not developed at this stage and truly this was too early.

My mother did not like that I underwent a sonography and she kept saying doctors these days cause too much unnecessary medical intervention. As expected the Sonography report said that there was no fetal pole detected, however, I was indeed pregnant. Viability of the pregnancy could not be confirmed at this early stage.

Later, when I discussed this with my friends / bhabhis / sisters who has recently delivered, I got to know that it was indeed too early and they did not have a sonography or scan so soon.

Anyway, I was indeed pregnant - the scan said so!

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The day it started..

I am M the first-time-would-be-mom and I plan to document this wonderful journey on this blog. I would love if V (the would be dad) would write a guest post here...but who am I kidding...thats never gonna happen!!

So we had been married for around 6 months when we decided to try for a baby. I had completed the big 30 and had no luck in getting a job in the new city. Since I wasnt getting any younger and I had heard too many cases of problems in conceiving, I did not want to delay it any further. V agreed which just made me relax and happy.

I cried the first couple of months when I got my periods and was crushed when finally a HPT came negative after delayed periods.

The day our lives changed was the first day of Ganesh Chaturthi - 29th Aug 2014! I took the test and called in V to check the result. We hugged so hard when the faint pink line appeared.

I was pregnant!!