We’re Having A Baby! My Story + How We Found Out

Well, the secret is out. I can’t believe this is real life; I’m going to be a real-time mama. Keegan and I are so incredibly excited, it’s creeping up closer than we think. I started taking notes here and there when I first found out I was pregnant and wanted to put all of it together on my blog. So, here it is!

I told myself I would be as open about my pregnancy as possible, sharing all the ups and downs and in-betweens. It’s so great to have this blog where this entire journey lives so when we look back, all these memories and feelings will come rushing back. This is my pregnancy story.

August 2021

For starters, we first discussed trying to get pregnant in August 2021. We tried, yet didn’t super try, once, and I took a test, and I was not pregnant. I was extremely nervous for the results, but I was 95% sure I wasn’t pregnant. Sitting there in my bathroom, waiting for the two lines to pop up, I just knew it wasn’t time. 

After that month, we were super serious about trying. And we were so excited about the process of trying to get pregnant! The primary reason we started trying was simply we thought it would be perfect to have our first baby born in May. We are both May babies, with birthdays just two days apart. Crazy, I know. We were so determined, so we just went for it full force. 

I stopped drinking caffeine, stopped drinking alcohol, stopped doing intense HIIT workouts (I was really sad about this one), and started taking prenatal vitamins. Keegan stopped drinking, too, so it wouldn’t feel so hard for me at first. 

September 2021

I was just feeling super hopeful at this point. I was so sure I was pregnant and stayed positive every single day, just for the simple fact that we were trying and life felt like it was about to change very soon. 

I was still going on my long walks, exercising on my back porch, and playing pickleball with Keegan. I missed my period in mid-September and said I didn’t want to take a test until a week after my missed period; even then, I knew. Keegan convinced me to run to CVS to grab a pregnancy test during lunch on Tuesday, September 21st. I came home and took the test in our tiny bathroom and set it on the sink, and waited in the living room. It felt like an eternity, the longest 4 minutes of my life. Keegan went into the bathroom to check the test. First, he came down the hallway smiling and told me to look for myself. I looked at myself in the bathroom mirror, took a deep breath, and looked down at that little digital screen. At 2:11 PM, it read: “Pregnant.”