So, the two days before I left with my son, Tyler, for California, I was a couple days late and we decided I should take a pregnancy test. I was skeptical after all I was 2 days late max, could just be late! However, It came back positive... or so we thought... the line was so faint we thought it might be a mistake. After squinting at the incredibly light pink line for the allotted time listed on the box, we were still unsure, so Dan rushed out and bought 2 more tests!! I waited til the next morning and took it again only to find the same result. So, of course, I did what I always do in situations like this... I asked Google :) Well, I found out that a line is a line no matter how faint! We were super happy and started to call up his family and let them know the great news. Tyler was happy, he's wanted a baby brother or sister for years! I decided to wait until I got back to California to inform my family since I was going to see them the next day.
It's funny to me the questions people ask you when they first find out... Most of them were "was it planned?" and "are you getting married?" "Where will your baby be born?" First, it was planned, we just didn't think it would happen so fast. Hormone issues run in my family and the women generally take years to get pregnant, so when my birth control ran out in July, Dan and I talked about it and decided to give it a go. I figured it'd be quite some time (if at all) for this to happen and what do you know, by August 17th I had a positive pregnancy test! Crazy... Anyway, as for getting married, I don't think that a pregnancy is any reason to rush to the altar. You should get married because you both want to, not because you have to. I'm sure we will in the future, I just love weddings, just at this moment, one life changing event at a time, please!
Lastly, the baby will be born in Canada and I am currently in the process of applying for Permanent Residence in Canada. Making sure I was going to have medical coverage as a Canadian Visitor (my current status) was a huge run around. When we called Immigration to ask them about the pregnancy their answer was that they wont cover anything until the baby is born! Well, to me that didn't seem right, since proper prenatal care leads to a healthier baby not to mention this is the child of their own citizen and basically they were telling him they wouldn't cover it? Weird... anyway, it was a huge stressful situation... because we thought I may have to move back to California, where I'd be covered, to have the baby and then Dan would have to try to get time off work and fly back and forth and... ugh. Big mess. Anyway, again we asked the almighty Google and found out there are actually work-arounds to this, just for obvious reasons, immigration doesn't want you to know about them. So, Dan made the appropriate phone calls and within a few minutes I was covered! Well, verbally covered, still have to wait for exact directions on what to do... but it's the government and whether in the US or Canada they function the same! So, we were told to wait for two weeks for further instruction, for some reason I feel like I'm waiting for the Godfather to call in a favor on us lol...
So far everything for me has been running pretty smoothly. No morning sickness yet, although eggs really are disgusting and nearly put me there when I ate a bite of them the other day. Also, I do feel a little queasy when someone mentions something I view as disgusting. I am not really showing or anything although my belly is already getting firm and I can't suck my stomach in anymore. I have to get up every few hours in the night to go to the bathroom, that's annoying and I spend most of my day groggy from lack of sleep! Other than that, it's pretty awesome so far, can't wait to get back to Canada though, I miss Dan so much and wasn't really around him long enough for this to "sink in" and I'm excited to start a family with such a wonderful man :)
Anyway, so that's been the story so far, I'm only about 6 weeks along, still a long way to go. I'm glad it'll be during the winter though it's much more comfortable than a pregnant summer would be! I have yet to go to the Dr, which Google said was ok as most people don't realize their pregnant until 6 to 8 weeks and then you have a wait for a Dr appt anyway. So, I figure if there's any issues while I'm here in California, I'll go visit my old obgyn and pay out of pocket, if not I'll just wait until my return to Canada on Oct. 6th. After all I really want Daniel to be able to go to the first doctors appointment with me!
Monday, August 31, 2009
Finally Starting to sink in.
So, it's finally starting to sink in. I'm going to be a dad!
Been pretty crazy thus far, with so many questions to be answered and so many worries. But everything seems to be falling into place. When we first found out, I was pretty excited, but the worries about where it would be born, how we would get coverage - all these things, definitely took some of the steam out of it.
I was calling around like a mad man, calling immigrations, calling embassies, trying to find out a way to make sure that the baby could be born in Canada. Looked into insurance and how that works, found out that they generally only cover a pregnancy up to 6 months if you weren't covered before hand... I was pretty wired up, and further more, losing a lot of weight just due to stress.
As Shari said though, after looking up on google, found out that the thing to do was to call the local MP. Got some assurance from the person I spoke with that they'd see to it that Shari got covered. So, while I still think there is going to be some work involved, I'm a little more comfortable with that situation, so now, I can start feeling happy! :) It's a good feeling, and I really can't wait. I'm looking forward to Shari's return home, I miss her a lot. Especially with all that is going on, makes it that much harder to be away from her, but at least we have the internet! :)
So, now I can relax a bit (not too much though, still lots to do) and let it sink in and start enjoying the ride so to speak :)
Been pretty crazy thus far, with so many questions to be answered and so many worries. But everything seems to be falling into place. When we first found out, I was pretty excited, but the worries about where it would be born, how we would get coverage - all these things, definitely took some of the steam out of it.
I was calling around like a mad man, calling immigrations, calling embassies, trying to find out a way to make sure that the baby could be born in Canada. Looked into insurance and how that works, found out that they generally only cover a pregnancy up to 6 months if you weren't covered before hand... I was pretty wired up, and further more, losing a lot of weight just due to stress.
As Shari said though, after looking up on google, found out that the thing to do was to call the local MP. Got some assurance from the person I spoke with that they'd see to it that Shari got covered. So, while I still think there is going to be some work involved, I'm a little more comfortable with that situation, so now, I can start feeling happy! :) It's a good feeling, and I really can't wait. I'm looking forward to Shari's return home, I miss her a lot. Especially with all that is going on, makes it that much harder to be away from her, but at least we have the internet! :)
So, now I can relax a bit (not too much though, still lots to do) and let it sink in and start enjoying the ride so to speak :)
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