February 8th, 2020
After years of trying, we finally got the news that we had been waiting for. A positive pregnancy test! That positive test quickly followed with a trip to urgent care due to spotting. It felt too good to be true and naturally after so many let downs, we were a little nervous and cautiously optimistic. We got to urgent care and they performed an ultrasound and urine test to check hormone levels. Yep, she's officially pregnant! That was on Saturday February 8th, 2020. At first, we didn't tell anyone besides our donor and his wife. We wanted to wait to announce it until we knew that we were safe. We had a couple earlier false alarms where we got a positive on a digital pregnancy test, so we wanted to make extra sure. Priscilla bought a pair of newborn socks and had a this card stock for the longest time hidden under our bathroom sink, waiting for the moment she could surprise me with a positive test. She finally got to put it to use. Of course I needed to see the positive pregnancy test, but reality set in once we got the HCG test done. We're having a baby!!
Our Journey to Motherhood
We always knew that Priscilla would be the one to carry. I don't have the urge to experience childbirth. To be completely honest, it scares the heck out of me. When we talked about having kids, I always thought we had all the time in the world. "You'll get pregnant fast" "lets wait til next year so we can save more money" "lets wait til we get a house" "do you really thing we're ready?" Spoiler alert: no matter how much you try to prepare, or save, or try to plan, NOTHING goes according to plan. We started trying in 2017. We were approached by that donor at the time who said they wanted to help us start our family. I remember getting that text at dinner and I immediately flashed my phone to Priscilla and started crying. Are you serious? We were so moved that someone would offer to do that for us. So we meet with the donor and his wife and we talked over dinner, had a contract drawn up and started the process. We inseminated just 2 times when Priscilla got a text from our donor's wife basically saying that if it had not worked by now, that it was never going to. WHAT?! We were devastated. We didn't understand what happened or why. Maybe they got cold feet? Either way, we started looking into other options. We found a really good resource from a mutual friend called known donor registry. It's basically a community resource of sperm and egg donors. I called it "facebook for sperm" I was a little apprehensive at first but knew that a sperm bank was not an option for us as we wanted to use fresh sperm, as well as it's really expensive if it doesn't work. So we chatted with one potential donor before being approached by our current donor (thank goodness) Fast forward to July of 2018, we started inseminating. Two years and alot of tears, frustrated moments, Dr. Visits, endless support, false positives and possible miscarriage, we are FINALLY getting our baby boy!
How we announced our pregnancy
