What is The Adventures of NinjaMan & NinjaChic? A SuperNinja couple in their quests of pregnancy and parenthood! ...But really its the everyday life of an Airman,his wife and their little boy!
Ninjas sounded so much cooler.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Surprise! You're Pregnant!

NinjaMan, my parents,my sisters and I planned a vacation to Disney World for the first weekend in October. The previous week I was ill with a stomach flu,but feeling better we decided to go ahead with our vacation. While at Disney I felt nauseated some mornings and was always very tired by the end of each day, but being tired is common for a trip to Disney. NinjaMan and I love to eat at the Biergarten(German restaurant meaning "Beer Garden") in Epcot, and so we went and enjoyed the food and fun. While there I was experiencing pain in my chest on my left side; worried, I called my mother who is also a nurse. I told her about the pain and that I felt like it was in and around my shoulder. Mom told me it was probably just from my backpack being too heavy,but it could also be heartburn from the food I had eaten.
After returning home from our vacation I noticed I still felt tired and nauseated and so NinjaMan suggested buying an at-home pregnancy test. I then remembered missing a birth control pill and that I was two days late on my period, and so I ran to the pharmacy and bought two tests. After both tests came back positive, I ran back to the store and bought two digital tests,which also came back positive. I told NinjaMan about the tests and we decided to go to the Base Clinic the next day to get my blood drawn so we could be absolutely sure. NinjaMan,nervous as I was, decided to take a day off and go with me to the Clinic. After an hour of anxiously waiting, we were called to a room and given the result. The nurse told us "Congrats, You're Pregnant!!" but his happy expression changed when he saw we were still worried. I explained to him that a couple days before I had an episode of bleeding and we were concerned that I had miscarried. After explaining this, we were sent to Eglin AFB because our base does not have an Ob/Gyn clinic. NinjaMan and I rush over to Eglin's Ob Clinic only to find they were closed for training, but were told to come back early the next morning.
The next day (October 8,2009) we were at the clinic as soon as it opened and the staff checked my weight and blood pressure. We were sent to an examining room where we explained everything and the doctor decided to do an ultrasound. It was then we saw our precious baby for the first time! NinjaMan held my hand and I cried tears of joy when we heard our baby's heartbeat.The doctor told us that by the size of the baby I was 9 weeks and 4 days pregnant instead of 5 weeks like we thought! The doctor calculated my due date for May 8, 2010.The feeling we had when we saw our baby for the first time and knew that everything was alright was like nothing we have ever felt before!

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