Welcome

I can't tell you how many times I have started and restarted this blog.  I decided now that my husband and I have come out and told everyone in our lives that we're pregnant it would be a really good idea to actually document this journey.  My name is Holly for those of you that do not know me.  I am a married nursing student from a little town in southeast Georgia.  I recently turned 25 years old and I am currently 14 weeks 3 days pregnant with our first little one.  We are due 3 weeks after I graduate with my Bachelors of Science in Nursing.  We are scheduled to find out the gender of our tummy monster January 8, 2013..4 months before daddy turns 27!  We have a four legged child named Gizmo.  He begrudgingly stars in tons of my pictures.

A lot of firsts have come about in 2012.  My husband and I purchased our first home this year.  We began the process in April of 2012 and finally closed on the place in August of 2012.  We're still relatively close to family.  We also decided in July of 2012 that we would begin trying for our first child.  I was about to start my next to last semester in nursing school and we figured it would be easier for me to graduate, have baby, take the NCLEX and then go to work instead of starting work and then having to take maternity leave.  After for trying just shy of two months we decided to test when our 18 pound pinny poo would not leave me alone.  He was attached to my hip, he would lay on my tummy, and he wanted nothing to do with my husband.  After he acted like that for a few days I decided the following morning to take a pregnancy test when my husband got home from work.  After taking a few tests in August I was like "ohh this is going to just be another negative.  There's no way we got pregnant THAT fast".   Boy was I wrong!  Not even a minute after doing my thing I looked at that test and our world changed.  That was the brightest pink line I have ever seen in my life.  My husband the weirdo was outside spraying off his truck at 6:45 in the morning so I went out and asked him to come inside.  I heard him quietly mumble "I bet I know what this is about".  He later told me he knew I was either pregnant or I accidently "killed" the dog.  We were ecstatic, but our joy would have to wait a little while longer.  I had to go to school!  I took another test that evening when I got home and the same thing happened.  It was "unofficially" official.  We were pregnant!

Our pregnancy was confirmed a few weeks later at my primary care physician's office.  I decided to go with a doctor in Savannah due to my platelet issue [read about idiopathic thrombocytopenia here].  Oddly enough my low platelet count (lowest being 38,000 in March/April of this year) has turned itself around with my pregnancy.  That should have been clue number 1 that I was pregnant.  I was actually already pregnant when I asked my hematologist's office if I would need a high risk ob vs a regular ob.  If I would have issues during pregnancy etc.  The office that we went with is affiliated with Memorial Medical Center, this hospital takes care of the more "high risk" pregnancies.  I've only seen the nurse practitioner and the ultrasound tech so far but we have fallen in love with their staff.  You don't have to wait long for your appointment and they're all so nice.  We have our first appointment with my OB December 5, 2012.  We absolutely cannot wait to meet her.

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