As you can see from the title, I am having a Sound of Music hangover. I sat and downloaded all the tracks and kept playing them on loop :) Luxuries of joblessness. A week earlier it was Adele. My!! What a powerful, goosebump inducing voice!! But I digress. Staying true to the title this post is about how I conceived and how I confirmed my pregnancy.
I have been immensely blessed regarding the getting pregnant part. I didn't have to face either the monthly downer of not getting pregnant or the panic of an unwanted pregnancy. Thanks to my very fertile eggs(as claimed by my Mom) or my husband's very effective sperm (as claimed by him), with both my babies I got pregnant at the first try, much to my husband's disappointment who had hoped to have fun trying atleast the second time around :P Let alone the day, I can quote the time they were conceived assuming the eggs and sperm weren't whiling away their time at the sidelines.
My husband and I had an arranged marriage and before marriage itself we had agreed upon having 2 kids, 2 years after marriage. Between hearing stories of couples trying for ages to get pregnant and my grandfather and aunt nudging me for a baby in addition to baby Jesus by Christmas, we thought of trying from January 2012 in order to have a baby by December 2012.
Between our hectic work schedules, late nights, my Saturday working and my husband's frequent business trips, we finally managed to try only on 26 January 2012 which was a national holiday which by a happy co-incidence was my super fertile day. However after that there was such a flurry of activity at work that we didn't have time to try again. Few weeks later my husband won the coveted President's Club award which included all inclusive trip to Florida for a week long stay at the luxurious Breakers Spa in the 2nd week of April.
So the baby making was put on hold till our return from Florida. After all who wants the hassle of a pregnancy at Florida? Sigh!! With my nausea, spotting and fatigue alongwith jet lag, my US trip wasn't the way I had envisioned it :( So we continued with our regular travels - road trip to Nashik for the Sula Fest on 4th & 5th February, my sudden solo trip to Bangalore thanks to a hartaal in Pune and hubby's absence from home due to a business trip. And both these trips I consumed a lot of alcohol and inhaled a lot of passive smoke. I was due to get my periods during the Bangalore trip and was so thankful to God that it was delayed. In fact I joked with my girl friends that I better not be pregnant considering my alcohol and passive smoke intake.
I still can't believe that I didn't even for a moment seriously think I was pregnant when my periods were delayed. With my manager on leave, I was so overworked and stressed out that I felt only gratitude that the inconvenience called menstruation was delayed. And whoever gets pregnant at the first go? Isn't that what Murphy's law is all about? As another experienced Mommy wrote "Getting pregnant is the easiest thing in the world, unless you are trying to get pregnant".
I would have probably continued with my blissful ignorance had I not decided to surprise my husband with meat burgers from Burger King for an impromptu lunch date before Lent started the next day. While casually commenting to my husband how my periods have forgotten me and how it's been such a relief, I went to my kitchen calendar and started counting the days since my last period. And I reached 40!!!! I called up my Mom to double check if 40 days is long enough to be pregnant and she asked me if I had ever learnt Biology in school :P
Now we were too busy for a hospital visit and my husband was leaving for a business trip the next day so my Mom suggested I buy a pregnancy kit and check. I went to the Medical shop thinking how the kit must be very expensive and hoping the guy would accept card since I had no cash on me and he tells me its just Rs. 50. I was so taken aback that it was so cheap that I bought two. With my obsession about following instructions, I waited till the next day morning to check and lo and behold 2 dark red lines confirming without a doubt that I was pregnant!!!
I have been immensely blessed regarding the getting pregnant part. I didn't have to face either the monthly downer of not getting pregnant or the panic of an unwanted pregnancy. Thanks to my very fertile eggs(as claimed by my Mom) or my husband's very effective sperm (as claimed by him), with both my babies I got pregnant at the first try, much to my husband's disappointment who had hoped to have fun trying atleast the second time around :P Let alone the day, I can quote the time they were conceived assuming the eggs and sperm weren't whiling away their time at the sidelines.
My husband and I had an arranged marriage and before marriage itself we had agreed upon having 2 kids, 2 years after marriage. Between hearing stories of couples trying for ages to get pregnant and my grandfather and aunt nudging me for a baby in addition to baby Jesus by Christmas, we thought of trying from January 2012 in order to have a baby by December 2012.
Between our hectic work schedules, late nights, my Saturday working and my husband's frequent business trips, we finally managed to try only on 26 January 2012 which was a national holiday which by a happy co-incidence was my super fertile day. However after that there was such a flurry of activity at work that we didn't have time to try again. Few weeks later my husband won the coveted President's Club award which included all inclusive trip to Florida for a week long stay at the luxurious Breakers Spa in the 2nd week of April.
So the baby making was put on hold till our return from Florida. After all who wants the hassle of a pregnancy at Florida? Sigh!! With my nausea, spotting and fatigue alongwith jet lag, my US trip wasn't the way I had envisioned it :( So we continued with our regular travels - road trip to Nashik for the Sula Fest on 4th & 5th February, my sudden solo trip to Bangalore thanks to a hartaal in Pune and hubby's absence from home due to a business trip. And both these trips I consumed a lot of alcohol and inhaled a lot of passive smoke. I was due to get my periods during the Bangalore trip and was so thankful to God that it was delayed. In fact I joked with my girl friends that I better not be pregnant considering my alcohol and passive smoke intake.
I still can't believe that I didn't even for a moment seriously think I was pregnant when my periods were delayed. With my manager on leave, I was so overworked and stressed out that I felt only gratitude that the inconvenience called menstruation was delayed. And whoever gets pregnant at the first go? Isn't that what Murphy's law is all about? As another experienced Mommy wrote "Getting pregnant is the easiest thing in the world, unless you are trying to get pregnant".
I would have probably continued with my blissful ignorance had I not decided to surprise my husband with meat burgers from Burger King for an impromptu lunch date before Lent started the next day. While casually commenting to my husband how my periods have forgotten me and how it's been such a relief, I went to my kitchen calendar and started counting the days since my last period. And I reached 40!!!! I called up my Mom to double check if 40 days is long enough to be pregnant and she asked me if I had ever learnt Biology in school :P
Now we were too busy for a hospital visit and my husband was leaving for a business trip the next day so my Mom suggested I buy a pregnancy kit and check. I went to the Medical shop thinking how the kit must be very expensive and hoping the guy would accept card since I had no cash on me and he tells me its just Rs. 50. I was so taken aback that it was so cheap that I bought two. With my obsession about following instructions, I waited till the next day morning to check and lo and behold 2 dark red lines confirming without a doubt that I was pregnant!!!
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