Spring: flowers, babies, and vampires.

I've always loved Spring; the weather starts to warm up, the trees and flowers start to bloom (and until this year I have never had allergies!), the grass turns green again, the weather is perfect, and there's cute little baby bunnies and geese everywhere.  Spring is a definitely a season of 'rebirth' in this regard, and apparently this year it is for humans as well.  While I was at Target yesterday I decided to keep a running tally in my head of how many pregnant women I'd see.  I was there for a little less than an hour and saw 6...SIX...pregnant women.  It was like every isle I turned down there was another one...sort of like a horror movie where every exit the screaming girl is heading for turns up another zombie/monster/killer.  Even my shopping items weren't safe; I was looking at the clearance racks and it seemed like every shirt I picked up was a maternity shirt.  I'm about to lock myself in damn house! 

Bed rest went pretty well this past week.  I was bored out of my mind, but became pretty used to bossing my husband around :)  It also helped facilitate my new addiction to the HBO series True Blood.  I'm already having some pretty crazy dreams because of the hormones I'm taking right now, but adding hot vampires to the mix really creates some interesting stuff!  Bed rest also helped create my obsession with googling every single symptom I'm having and associating it with 'early pregnancy signs'.  For example...if I had gas a little more than normal (probably more related to the gyro I ate than a baby in my stomach!), I'd google, 'gas +early pregnancy symptom'...it's really getting out of control!  Every time I feel a twinge or ping of pain I immediately run to the computer and google it.  It's amazing what you'll find out there!

I went in for my progesterone level test on Friday.  Everything came out well and I'm right where they want me to be.  The nurse told me my estrogen levels are pretty high (to which Adam responds, "I KNOW."); they want me to be at 100 or above and I'm nearly at 500.  So of course, before I could even hang up the phone, there I was on my computer googling, 'high estrogen levels +early pregnancy symptoms'.  Turns out...IT IS a symptom!!  :)

Along with the high estrogen I'm also having other symptoms as well, but it's so hard to tell if it's from the progesterone or something else.  I'm nauseated A LOT, my sense of smell is out of this world (but I've always had a very strong sense of smell), and I'm craving really weird foods (hard boiled eggs and Burger King fries...not together though!), but I'm not interested in foods I'd normally love to eat.  I can't sleep through the night very well (this may be due to my husband's horrible snoring though), but I'm exhausted throughout the day (this may be due to my husband's snoring as well!). 

So with all this taken into consideration, I did what I was told not to do...buy a home pregnancy test while I was at Fertile Myrtle Target yesterday.  I bought the box with only one test inside since I figured I didn't need to stock up on them like I have in the past since I'm going in for a blood test next week to confirm.  So I got home and immediately went to the bathroom.  I sat there and waited...and waited.....and waited.........and waited.  Nothing happened!!  The stupid test never gave me a result!!!  There was a faint negative line, but there absolutely no line in the control window part.  Of all the pregnancy tests I've taken in the last two years, and that's a lot folks, I've never had one simply not give me a result!  And since I only bought one test, I didn't have another one to try.  Of course I pulled it out of the garbage every time I went to the bathroom last night, but it was the same stupid blank test that it was every time before.  Guess that was a sign that I'm really supposed to wait until next Monday. :(

So until next Monday (May 2nd!) I guess I'll just have to accept seeing pregnant bellies everywhere I go, continue googling every 'symptom' I have, and keep my mind off of it all by dreaming about sexy vampires that live in Louisiana.  ;) 

**Happy Easter everyone!** :)