When I Found Out...

So today is my very first Mother's Day! My husband helped Mya to write the card for me. And the family treated me lunch/dinner at Outback. I had calm chowder soup, bloonin' onions and lobster tails with sweet potatoes and vegetables.

I was remembering last year of the month of May. I was at work one day and I haven't feeling too good for the entire week. I thought I had stomach bug or something like that since there was a lot of things going around like the H1N1 but I knew I didn't have the H1N1 because I didn't have the symptoms. One of the patient came in the office one morning and asked me to draw her blood to check to see if she is pregnant. I asked the patient when was your last menstrual period and we started to have a conversation on how she is hoping to be pregnant and how excited her husband will be if she was. While we were talking, I wasn't feeling too good and my stomach was feeling too queasy. But then, in my head, it sudden hit me, "what if I am pregnant?" And I realized my last period was in March.

I told my coworkers I needed to step out. So I went next door that is a specialist for OB/GYN. A lady who works there, she and I have a good bond and we share stuff if we ran out needles, tubes, etc. I asked her if she has a quick pee test for pregnancy. She told me she did have them and asked me how many I needed. I was like "oh, just one." She looked at me, and was like "is this for you?!" I smiled and she was like "oh! I gotta find out now! Go on and use my bathroom!" So 5 minutes later, she smiled at me and said, "I am so excited for you! Congrats!" I laughed at her and thinking she was messing with me. But I couldn't believe it.

I walked back to my office, slower than usually and my coworker wanted to know what was wrong with me. I was just going through many random things in my head and just not hearing my co-workers talking to me. Then suddenly, my very first morning sickness vomit. They were concerned about me and I told them I was fine. I didn't want to break the news until I tell Mike first. I decided to wait till I get home but then I was becoming too anxious and kept looking at the clock when it is only 11 in the morning! So I didn't have any more patience and I decided to call him at work on my lunch break.

Ring. Ring. "Yeah? Mike Patterson."
"Hi honey!" excited to hear his voice.
"Hey, what's up?"
"Well, I wanted to wait till I get home, but I couldn't wait."
"Okay...." waiting for me to tell him.
"I am pregnant! You are going to be a dad!"
"Yay!!!"

He had to go back to work and I called my parents, my sister, my grandparents, my aunts, and my best friends. When I called my mom, she was so thrilled! You could hear her crying. When I called my dad, he said "get out of here". Typical dad. When I told my sister that she was going to be an Aunt, she was like "what do you mean?" Common sense Casey! And my Aunt Gail was so confused when I said she was going to be a great aunt. 10 minutes later, I get like 5 different text messages from my cousins. Gosh, my mom has a big mouth!



Almost everyday I threw up. And I felt better after I threw up so I didn't mind throwing up as long I feel better afterward. It was a week before Mother's Day and some of the moms told me that I could celebrate Mother's Day because I was going to be a mom soon. My mom brought me a cute charm bracelet that has pacifier, horse rocket, and toy boxes that says ABC. And my best friend Beth brought me a book that has all the information on what to expect during pregnancy.

It felt a dream. Everything happened so fast. My body was changing so fast. My mood changed and so was my appetite. I was tired all the time. My feet swells up when I been standing all day at work. I had so many thoughts about it. Some was positives and some was negatives. I wonder if I was going to be a good mom or a bad mom. I wonder if my kid was going to look like her daddy or like me or in the between? But I was excited that I was starting a family with my husband and I have a little buttercup in my womb that was growing.