So your pregnancy test is positive?

Hooray!!!  I’m genuinely happy for you!  Even if you’ve waited for this moment for a long time, you might be feeling a rush of emotions…even conflicting ones.  That’s okay!  Take a deep breath and enjoy the thrilling, raw, incredible journey of motherhood!

So what do you do first?

I honestly didn’t know how to react when I learned I was pregnant.  Even though we were trying to conceive for two years, I was shocked when my test came back positive.  I think I said out loud “Okay, wow…now what?”

Not wanting to get my hopes up in case of a false positive, I thought I better go buy a second test to confirm.  So I ran to the pharmacy at 7 o’clock at night to grab a second test and counsel with the pharmacist.

She said “Congratulations!  If your test is positive, you are pregnant.”  She then explained that there’s literally no false positives with pregnancy tests.

We then discussed my medications and whether they were safe to continue taking.  Personally, I found this conversation very helpful and would recommend this be the first step with any new pregnancy.

As a side note, I strongly recommend you get some doxylamine (unisom) while you’re at the pharmacy!!!  This got me through the worst of my morning sickness (which hit about 9 weeks).

So after trying for two years, I was actually pregnant!  Yes, I was happy…this is what I had been praying pleading for.  But honestly I was more dazed than anything else.

Now to tell the husband!