Life

About 5 weeks ago, I took a very important test. It was a type of geometry test, one that required me to determine two small parallel lines placed on a  flat plane. I felt like I had studied sufficiently, but I didn't know what the outcome would be. As I read the results of the test early that morning, I realized that despite all of the preparation I felt I had had, I could never be prepared for a result such as this.

As the results became clearer to me, I remember looking in the mirror. I saw me, saw my surprised and dazed smile, and I felt my heart leap. Then... I saw my belly. I realized that inside that space, there was now a little life multiplying in size by over 1,000 times a week.

After the realization set it, I checked the test just one more time to make sure my eyes weren't deceiving me. Once I was sure, I went out to tell Isaac.

He was still sleeping, but I woke him up. Then I said the 2 words that I know every husband wants to hear at 6 o'clock in the morning... "I'm pregnant." Isaac took a few seconds to digest my words, said something like, "really?" (with a tired smile), and then got up to look at the test himself. As he studied the results of this test that had already changed my life, he said what every newly impregnated wife wants to hear at 6 am... "I don't see anything...."

Though this drove me crazy, I do have to admit that at first, the test wasn't as definitive as the one pictured above. That first day, the second parallel line was much less visible.

But as the days went on, Isaac was slowly able to see that line get darker and darker, and slowly it sunk in to him that he had gotten his wife pregnant, a fact that he began to take much pride in.

Now, a couple of doctors appointments and an ultrasound later, we actually have a picture of our little munchkin.

With a heart beat at 145 bpm, and the size he/she needs to be, it looks like our baby is doing just fine.

It's crazy to me that a baby, Isaac and I's baby, is actually developing inside of me. So far, I have felt his/her presence in only a few different ways: nausea, food aversions and cravings, and fatigue, lots of fatigue. All remind me that this baby is still doing a good job in there. He/she is still working hard and growing fast.

Each week it's a new adventure for me to read about or research what our baby is growing and how big he/ she has become. I'm so grateful for modern technology that can quench my thirst for extensive knowledge about this munchkin before I'm even able to feel him/ her inside of me.

Our official due date is September 19, 2012, so we still have a while. But I'm excited to finally tell everyone because it's all I think about these days.