In the evening of his 30th bday, my dear husband decided he wanted to start trying for a baby – but whenever I’m comfortable with it of course 
I had been off the pill since April, 08 after constant nagging from my dear husband that its not good for me and when we did decide to start trying, the longer I had been off it, the better.
Fear of ending up like many women trying so hard to have a baby that sex becomes solely the purpose of procreation, I decided that I wanted to leave it up to fate – we stopped trying NOT to get pregnant.
So as of November 8, 2008, we officially had our first “try”.
**TMI alert**
I had been tracking my period regularly ever since I went off the pill – coming from a very irregular cycle and chronic paranoia of getting ‘knocked up’ by now I knew I was regular on a 43 days cycle – making my chances of getting pregnant slimmer than the typical 28-day cycle gal. But hey! I wasn’t really trying anyway so why worry?
December 28. Menstruation Day.
Hubby and I were on a family cruise for the last week of December and I was almost convinced I was going to be late and pregnant…however, on the morning of Dec 28 there it was…my period.
I admit I was pretty disappointed, despite the fact that we weren’t really trying. The last thing I wanted to think was that after all these years living in fear of getting pregnant, I would find out one day that I wouldn’t be able to conceive or encounter difficult challenges along the way. I brushed my disappointment aside and took my hubby’s advice that often it takes a lot more than 1 month of trying to conceive.
Over the next couple of weeks things were busy. I started temp working at one place and then had relatives visit for a good three weeks. Needless to say, we really fell out of the habit of trying. Even as my ovulation spike (according to BabyCentre.ca) approached, we thought little of it and carried on with our routine.
As my menstruation date loomed near, I felt no out of the ordinary symptoms aside from the random baby dream here and there and periodic severe cramps. I routinely developed sever cramps in the days leading up to my period but somehow these ones were especially excruciatingly.
To my surprise, on February 9, 2009 my period didn’t come. I went to the doctor’s clinic on the 11th for a blood test which results would be available the following Wednesday due to Family Day (how ironic looking back). Unable to stand the anticipation, I took a pregnancy test (courtesy of Dollarama) on the 13th and there it was. My big fat positive. Just to be sure, my hubby took a test as well – it came out negative (kudos! Dollarama!)
The following week soon after driving my relatives to the airport, the doctor’s office calls and confirms the results: “Miss Yee, the results came back positive”
I become Mommy Maddie =)