Telling Adam!

Once the test result had finally sunk in, I then started wondering how on earth I was going to tell Adam - I wanted to do it face to face rather than over the phone (I knew he'd had a heavy night the night before - proven by the 4am phone-call I had received) but it would have to wait until we were alone later that afternoon as we were giving his colleague a lift home from the airport.

So I got dressed and grabbed the dog and went for a walk to think it through and try to absorb this amazing news... it was a beautiful morning and Rocky was as good as gold - it was almost as if he 'knew' - he even stopped at one point and sat between my legs with his head resting against me - super cute:-



Whilst we were walking I got round to thinking about when Little R would have been conceived and after a few glances at my 'Fertility Friend' iPhone app I worked out it was during the week before Valentine's Day. And I hadn't gotten Adam a Valentine's present... yet!

I also realised that Adam was struggling with ideas as to what he should get me for my Birthday so I decided that the positive test result could kill two birds with one stone - that is, be a belated Valentine's gift for Adam & the best 30th Birthday a girl could ever wish for.

First things first though, I got back to my original thought of having to eat properly now I was eating for two so I took the car to the carwash cafe & treated myself to a bacon & egg roll (how fun it was asking for the egg to be cooked well, please) and a skim latte*

* I know you're supposed to cut down on the caffeine in pregnancy but apparently it's safe to have one a day...! *

I have to say it literally tasted like the best breakfast I've ever eaten and even though I hadn't had any symptoms up until that morning - I swore I felt a bit seedy - morning sicky - afterwards! Prob more likely that I'd wolfed it down too quick - ha ha!! Here it is - captured for the blog:-

After I'd finished up at the carwash cafe I hot-footed it to Borders where I picked up a copy of 'What To Expect When You're Expecting' and also Jools Oliver's 'Minus Nine to One' - which is an excellent, honest & candid book for any expectant Mums to read - I thoroughly recommend it:-

Then it was back home again to get ready for my party and then off to the airport to pick up Adam + colleague.

In the end I decided to wrap up the What to Expect book & also the positive pregnancy test (wrapped in plastic so no chance of anyone having to touch any wee!) in some Valentine's paper and I put a little card in the package saying "Thank you for giving me the best 30th Birthday present a girl could ever wish for"

We finally got to Adam's office in North Sydney where we were to change and leave the car before heading into the City for my party - not the most romantic setting I must say...

When we got there I said to Adam "oh, I've got you a belated Valentine's present" and handed over the package feeling nervous & excited.

At first when he opened it he was like "oh thanks - a book" and I was hopping around "look at the other bit, look at the other bit" which was followed by "oh... so you're pregnant?" - not exactly the emotions & fireworks you might expect but this is Adam... the chilled, laid-back man that I've come to know & love - so it was fine!!!

As you can imagine the rest of my day - my Birthday party - didn't go quite as expected but missing out on a few cocktails is a SMALL price to pay for the wonderful little human being I got instead!

Rosie x

Finding out...

The day I found out I was pregnant will be a day that sticks in my memory forever!

Here's how it played out...

It was Saturday 26th February 2011 and Adam had been in Melbourne since Wednesday on business. I was due to pick him & his colleague up from the airport around 1pm, just in time for my 30th Birthday party which was due to start at 4pm that afternoon - cocktails at Bungalow 8 in the City! Here's the beautiful invitation I sent out for what I thought was going to be an afternoon of drinks, drunkenness & dancing!

*** TOO MUCH INFORMATION (TMI) WARNING ***

It may come as a surprise to some of you but we've actually been planning on having a family since about August 2009 and since then I've been keeping track of my 'cycles' religiously so I knew I would be due for a visit from my 'monthly friend' around the 24th Feb... 24th Feb came and went and so did the 25th so I got on the e-mail to my trusty friend Moo (who was about 4 months pregnant at the time) and asked her what I should do...

My conundrum was this - my cycles vary between 26 and 31 days so it could well have just been that my 'monthly friend' was just running a little late - this had certainly been the case in previous months - but then I really didn't want to risk going out on my Birthday and drinking heaps of cocktails if there was any possibility whatsoever that it had been our lucky month

To test or not to test, that was the question!

Moo - bless her cotton socks - suggested I enjoy my 30th and test early the following week - after all, it would be so early on in the pregnancy that a few drinks wouldn't hurt as long as I didn't get absolutely smashed. I liked this theory but in hindsight I think Moo just knew from experience how frustrating it can be watching everyone around you get merry when you know full well you can't with a baby on board!!

Me being me though, the impatient little madam that I am, couldn't wait and decided I would test the following morning (before the party) so that I could put my mind at ease. It was actually a 'left-over' test that Moo had from when she first found she was pregnant that was sitting in my cupboard... lucky I reckon!

So I was up and at 'em on Saturday morning and around 7am unwrapped the test with shaky hands and did the obligatory POAS (pee on a stick)... I turned my back for maybe 30 seconds to a minute then picked it up and lo and behold... PREGNANT!!!

AAGHHHHHH!!!!!

Even better was that it was one of these swanky digital tests which not only sure that you're pregnant but also how far along you are... a minute or so later the magical digits '2-3' popped up.. here's a pic:-

I was seriously in shock, completely over the moon, couldn't believe Adam wasn't there for me to tell and also couldnt' believe that this had happened on the day of my Birthday party!!!

My next thoughts were...

a) I had to eat a proper breakfast now I had a baby on board; and

b) how on earth was I going to tell Adam?!

What a morning!!!

Rosie x

Where to start...

Well folks I thought I'd start this blog so that our family & friends overseas can keep up with Baby Read's story - or 'Little R' - as he/she has become known.

As I type this I am 8 weeks & 2 days pregnant and had my first appointment with our lovely Obstetrician, Dr Boyce, this morning but there are a fair few stories up to this point so please humour me whilst I go back in time...

Much love,

Rosie,
Mummy-to-be