Dinah. 28. Housewife/part time baker out of own home.
Geoff (husband). 30. Store manager at Rite Aid.
Geoff and I met back in 2002 while we both slaved away at Big Lots. Me, a naive 17 year old cashier who had just quit school and only got a job to appease my mom. Geoff was 2 years older in college working as the furniture manager. We didn't associate much during work seeing as I worked up front and he worked in the back of the store. I thought he was cute since he looked like a boy I went to school with and thought he'd be perfect for a friend of mine to date. Turns out though I ended up falling for him so my friend faded from the picture. After going out on our first date we clicked and have been together ever since.
Geoff and I got married on May 15th 2004. One of the best days of my life. The church was packed full of people supporting this extremely young couple (I was 18 turning 19 and he was 20 going on 21) diving head first into this crazy thing called marriage. People probably thought we were nuts but we didn't care. We were in love and knew it was going to work.
Babies were always on the agenda...just not right away. I remember being on birth control constantly praying I wouldn't miss a pill and 9 months afterwards here comes a little Dinah or Geoff. So after living with my mom and aunt for the first 4 years of our marriage we moved into our own home. It was cute enough and had potential but the shitty neighbors made it a living hell for us but we tried making the best of it. After we moved in I came off bc and we threw our fate into God's hands. They say for a healthy couple it can take up to a year to get pregnant. Well, when that year came and went we were puzzled as to why we weren't blessed yet. Naive to anything wrong we just continued trying and as year two and three approached we started getting worried so I headed to the doctors to find a solution to our troublesome issues.
Good old Dr. Jenkins, he's been my doctor since I was 6. He was definitely the man to find out what was wrong....he just had to be. Doc J (as I call him) was puzzled after our first visit. He couldn't understand why two healthy 20 something's couldn't concieve a baby. He sent us both for testing and lab work but nothing would show up. After the last visit and going through each test we decided to take a year off from trying. Maybe we were trying too hard? We were just heartbroken and lost.
After the year was up it was time to sell our house and buy Geoff's childhood home. We were thrilled to be leaving our neighbors behind but sad because this new home was perfect for a family yet we had no children. Only our loving poodle Charlie. During early 2013 I began feeling sluggish and felt like I was having heart palpitations. Concerned I saw Doc J. He ran tests and determined my heart was just fine (it was my GERD acting up since I had recently started working out like a maniac and lost roughly 60 pounds) but the sluggish feeling was coming from an underactive thyroid that I had since I was born. Shocked, I was thinking in my head could this be my problem all along as to why we weren't getting pregnant? Doc J said he was certain it was. So he placed me on Synthroid and told me that it should fix all our problems in a few months. Now I trust my doc and adore him but no way is this problem going to be fixed after all this time. Geoff and I had just decided children weren't in the cards for us...that is until after Halloween rolled around.
My last period was a few days before our Halloween party this past October. Everything was normal and the new medicine had regulated my period to the point where it showed up at the same time for the past 6 months. Fast forward to Nov. 19th and my period wasn't there. I figured I was working out again so that threw it off. I waited for 3 days to see if it would show up. It never did but I definitely saw some signs as to why it wasn't there. I kept falling asleep around 7pm. That's not like me at all. I was moody and would fly off the handle at little things. Also not like me. I'm a hot headed Italian girl but even those things pre-pregnant Dinah wouldn't get mad at. My jeans felt so snug. Which is odd since they fit earlier in the month. I figured this all was strange but no way was I pregnant. We're talking about me here. So after the 4th day of my period being late I decided to run downstairs and take the last pregnancy test I had (I usually bought a few throughout the year). After waiting for the test to do it's thing I saw the word I had waited to see for 6 years.
There they are in their glory ladies and gents: "PREGNANT". I literally think my heart stopped for oh maybe 20 seconds? My eyes had to adjust to what I was reading. Could it really be it? It had to be & it was. I grabbed the test and took 5 pictures of it. Just to make sure people could read what I read and it wouldn't seem like my eyes were playing tricks on me. I called Geoff at work and told him the unbelievable but thrilling news. He was stunned (as I was at first) but he was truly overjoyed. I called my ma and she cried for a good 40 minutes. All my ma has ever wanted to be is a grandma. I then called my mother in law (who did a happy dance) and the rest of our family and friends. My best friend, Mel was beyond excited. I think I even heard her cry a bit. Jasper, our fantastic decade long friend kept saying "omg omg omg baby!", & Mikey, my life long friend and Geoff's right hand man said lack of a better term "shit himself" lol with the news but he was excited. Everyone was beyond thrilled. Even the post on Facebook brought on many comments and likes from our loved ones saying congrats and omg's! Ha, it was a complete joy to read. I know they say to wait until 12 weeks to announce the pregnancy but this was too good and a long time coming not to enjoy in the moment.
So here we are. I'm currently 5 weeks preggers. My first prenatal appointment is on Dec. 16th with my new obgyn. I feel pretty damn good. I have a few symptoms such as leg cramps, breast tenderness, bloating, and being tired. The morning sickness fairy has yet to tap me with her wand which I'm grateful for but who knows she may show up later on. Our dog Charlie hasn't left my side. He was doing that since before my period was late. Maybe I should of caught on? I started taking prenatal gummies (as directed by my obygn) and everyone refuses to let me carry anything heavier than a pound. Other than that we won't know anything until the 16th. Which I'll update all the details here.
Geoff and I are beyond excited. We finally get to be parents to this tiny person who will bring such joy and love to our lives. We couldn't thank God enough. Oh and Doc J had a role in it as well. He told me all along that it had to be something easy and fixable and it was. For that he'll always get a gold star in my book.
So as these weeks go on I'll blog anything and everything associated with our bambino. Hopefully you'll stick around and read all the fun and not so much fun things to come. I have a feeling it's going to be one hell of a ride.
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