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Yay!  I'll join!  Can I ask some getting to know you questions?

When did you find out and how? 

I found out 3 days ago, Saturday.  I'm 13dpo.  When cd10 dawned and my temp was still high and there was no spotting, I tested and it was positive!

When is your due date, known or expected?

FF says August 7th.

Do you have any other children?

No, this is my first pregnancy.

How did you tell your partner?

Well, when I got the positive, it was still too light to show DH.  I went to Target and got some more tests. And ordered a onesie online with his favorite comic book character.  Was trying to wait until it arrived, express delivery scheduled for today, but couldn't when, later on that same day he started watching a series for that same comic book character.  All he said was "wow" twice.  What a let down. *sigh*

What are you looking forward to in your pregnancy?

Hmm, will have to think about this.  Just the whole experience.

Any fears?

That it won't be healthy. :(

Hi ladies! Congrats to all of you! I was hoping someone would start an august thread! I'm so excited to have you all to share this journey with, especially before we tell anyone!

When did you find out and how? I got my BFP on Thanksgiving! Like Skipper2010, I POAS at 10 dpo and got a BFN. I got a maybe almost barely line at 11 dpo and my BFP at 12.

When is your due date, known or expected? August 3, based on ovulation date. I'm calling the doctor in the morning.

Do you have any other children? Nope.

How did you tell your partner? I didn't tell him about the maybe line at 11 dpo. When I tested the next morning, I set the timer on my phone, when it hit 5 minutes, I sent him to look at the test. He asked what he was looking for and when I told him a line, he asked "like that one?" and there it was!

What are you looking forward to in your pregnancy? Telling our families, finding out the gender, feeling kicks....

Any fears? Absolutely! Right now I'm nervous about just scheduling the doctors appointment. Even though this was planned, I'm feeling really overwhelmed about the whole thing! I also had the results from my pap smear come back abnormal (LSIL) a few days before my BFP, so I'm still nervous about that too. 

I think we're leaning towards staying team green,but we'll see how we feel when it gets closer.

I called the doctor today to make an appointment, she said they usually see women between 8 and 10 weeks, which puts me into January (im out of town the week of xmas) and she said she couldn't schedule me yet, they don't have the January calendar! How crazy is that!

I asked her to have the midwife call me, partly so I can ask about the LSIL (abnormal pap results) and what I should do and partly so I can ask about what I can expect at my first appt. it's a little tough for DH to take off work, but he definitely wants to do it if we get to see the baby! 

How are all of you feeling? Any symptoms? I have sore boobs, feel crampy off and on ( nothing major, just little twinges), and I've been super burpy. No idea if that last one is pregnancy related or not, but it's getting really old, haha.

@skipper2010:  I copied and pasted the roll call from your post, and I just noticed I never changed the answer to the "looking forward to" question. Sorry if I look like a creepy stalker copy cat! It's also silly because the answers don't even apply to me! We're not planning to find out gender, and I'm not completely excited to tell my family because my mother is overly enthusiastic and overly opinionated and I'd rather not deal with it. I know she means well, but it's exhausting! I'm excited about feeling kicks but also sort of terrified about the whole pregnancy/ body change/ growing a life thing!

@.twist.:  Thanks! Positive stories are always reassuring! I'm trying not to be too worried, and mostly I'm not--statistically I know it's usually nothing. I also had a BV infection that was clearing up which seems like it could mess with things during the pap smear and I had a negative HPV test and clean pap the prior year, which is obviously a good thing. Pregnancy just makes it all more complicated--it's better not to do a biopsy while pregnant. I'm inclined to wait till after I deliver, since tests could be risky and it normally clears up on its own. I just worry that I could be in that tiny percentage where it gets worse.

I can't really talk to anyone in real life about this, so its so nice to be able to talk here and get out of my head!

Im glad your symptoms aren't too bad! I'm dreading them potentially getting worse. And while I know that cramping is normal, it's sort of nice to hear other people are experiencing it too, to kind of reassure me that it really is ok.

Good lord, I sound like an insecure mess today! Im not sure what's going on--i got stupid nervous about calling the doctor this morning.

@.twist.:  I talked to the midwife today and she strongly recommended doing the colposcopy, which is just looking up in there, and said the dr will only do the biopsy if he thinks it's necessary ( this will be my first time with a male dr, which is a little weird), so that should be fine. I have that scheduled in mid December. fingers crossed it all goes ok.

@skipper2010:  I was wondering when others are planning to tell people. We haven't told anyone yet. We sort of want to over Christmas because we'll actually be seeing all of our family in person then. We'll be 8 or 9 weeks then, which isn't too early, though I sort of wanted to wait until the second trimester. I don't really want to tell some people and hope they'll keep it quiet, I'd rather just do it all or nothing. 

Anyway, I'm nervous about telling people before we see the heartbeat. I do have my first drs appt before Xmas, but they said they don't usually do an ultrasound then, and I probably won't have an ultrasound until 12 weeks or so. So, we may wait until then to tell people, I'm not sure. I wonder what the chances are of us talking them into doing an ultrasound at the 8 week visit?

@misskittykakes:  I know, isn't that weird? January isn't that far away! You're getting in super early! I go in dec 20th, which I think is about the earliest they would see me. Good luck keeping up your gym routine! I'm mostly focusing on trying to keep up with my stretching. I spend too much time at a desk and I know it's terrible forkey body!

@JKasi: congrats! My DH is mostly ok with waiting to tell people, but I can tell its getting harder for him. Its adorable seeing the guys get so excited, isn't it?

@MrsSawyer:  Thanks!  We're glad to be able to join you.  Glad to hear you are through with nausea and that nasty cold.

@skipper2010:  I'm not having a hard time keeping it secret.  I'm not near any of my good friends anymore :(  and we've drifted apart.  So no one really to tempt me.  Maybe if I was seeing them more often, iono.

@.twist.:  i will definitely find out the sex.

@CuriousOne:  when do you think youll decide to tell people? I'm sorry you've drifted from friends-- it's so easy to happen when you move apart. I know I'm less close to a lot of my old friends. I did tell one out of state friend that we were actually trying and I've complained about not being pregnant yet to her a few times (she just had a baby and could commiserate). I wonder if she'll notice that I've stopped complaining?

@skipper2010:  hiding the not drinking from friends is the hardest! I wonder if any of mine will start to catch on. We usually hang out at friends houses and I typically bring a mixed drink in a sports bottle, so thatll make it a little easier to hide as long as no one looks too closely!

@.twist.:  Good luck! A sip or two won't hurt so make sure to take a real sip in front of her to really throw her off!