Around 9pm on Saturday Sept 1st I convinced Sarah to go buy a pregnancy test. We had been feeling ready to have a baby and thought maybe July was the month. Turned out not to be, so even when she was a couple days late from her otherwise regular cycle, she didn't want to jinx us by buying the test too soon. Finally, after playing with Delia, Milo and Eloise (neighbor kids upstairs), she was ready to buy a test and so we went out looking for a drug store that was still open (we don't live in Manhattan, that's for sure!). We got the test, came home and I read all I could about how it worked before she peed on the strip. I have a video of that moment too, but that's for posterity, not the internet, sorry! The horizontal line would show up regardless of the result, the issue at hand is whether you get a vertical line. If you are pregnant, the vertical line would show up in 2-3 minutes. If you've been pregnant for a little longer and hormone levels are higher, then the plus might come sooner. In our case, we saw the line the second she peed on the strip! She was really pregnant. As you can see from the video on the next post, we were still not ready to jump up and down with excitement, just in case we jinxed it. So there it is, the story of how we found out we are having a baby.
We took this picture of ourselves moments after finding out and moments before praying to Heavenly Father to give thanks and ask for lots of help.
Around 9pm on Saturday Sept 1st I convinced Sarah to go buy a pregnancy test. We had been feeling ready to have a baby and thought maybe July was the month. Turned out not to be, so even when she was a couple days late from her otherwise regular cycle, she didn't want to jinx us by buying the test too soon. Finally, after playing with Delia, Milo and Eloise (neighbor kids upstairs), she was ready to buy a test and so we went out looking for a drug store that was still open (we don't live in Manhattan, that's for sure!). We got the test, came home and I read all I could about how it worked before she peed on the strip. I have a video of that moment too, but that's for posterity, not the internet, sorry! The horizontal line would show up regardless of the result, the issue at hand is whether you get a vertical line. If you are pregnant, the vertical line would show up in 2-3 minutes. If you've been pregnant for a little longer and hormone levels are higher, then the plus might come sooner. In our case, we saw the line the second she peed on the strip! She was really pregnant. As you can see from the video on the next post, we were still not ready to jump up and down with excitement, just in case we jinxed it. So there it is, the story of how we found out we are having a baby.
We took this picture of ourselves moments after finding out and moments before praying to Heavenly Father to give thanks and ask for lots of help.
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hooray! i'm so happy for you both!
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