TPS: How We Got Here

Here we go with the pregnancy stuff I warned you about. We will open with a brief survey of how we got here. (No, not that level of detail, perverts!)


Baby Love by Diana Ross & The Supremes
With the munchkin, MTM simply had to say, "Wanna make a baby?" to me one night and bam she was pregnant. (Well, not exactly. The first month wasn't a success, but the second was.) We actually confirmed that pregnancy with a home test on our first wedding anniversary.

We had planned on starting to try for our second around my birthday (June) in 2006, which would have made the munchkin nearly two when the new baby came. Then in April of 2006 I broke my ankle, which postponed efforts until August.

Unfortunately, during my recovery, my in-laws sold their house and moved up north to their cottage. This also meant they were staying with us for 2-3 days every few weeks (for doctor appointments, hair appointments, visiting friends in the area, et cetera). Their visits were not only stressful and difficult, but they also seemed to always correspond to MTM's ovulation date. One time we attempted to try "quietly", but it all felt too much like high school, so we quickly abandoned that plan.

That is not to say that we didn't still give it the good old college try. We did, and some months we thought we had succeeded only to reach day 38 or even 42 and discover evidence that we had fertilized but failed to implant. This probably happened six or eight times over the course of our efforts.

If you asked MTM, we had been trying for a year and a half before succeeding. She was in panic mode before the standard 12 months was up: getting blood work done, cutting out various dietary things, going to a naturopath/acupuncturist. She even had me lined up to provide "a sample".

If you asked me, the answer would be a few months tops. This is because I steadfastly maintained that as long as my in-laws were disrupting our lives, stressing us out, and generally making nuissances of themselves, neither MTM nor I would be relaxed. And as any book or internet site or doctor will tell you, stress does not make for easy conception.

They moved into their new house in October of 2007. We conceived in January of 2008. We confirmed with a home pregnancy test on Valentine's Day.

And yesterday, we got this:


kinda looks like a kidney bean...