It's a boy!

Well-it appears that our little bundle of joy is a bouncing baby boy! We've decided on Gabriel Thomas as his name and can't wait till he gets here! Since I've not posted hardly any information regarding our pregnancy, here's the abbreviated version of our story...

For those of you who may not know, Mike and I use Natural Family Planning as our method of pregnancy postponement. NFP is 100% free and as effective as other means of birth control when used correctly. Compared to the Catholic Church's rhythm method of pre-Vatican II, NFP has many more advantages...namely, it actually works!

Despite our efforts to start a family after three years of marriage-we got just about one year under our belt before becoming pregnant. Whether you want to blame it on our method (we're big rule followers) or divine intervention is up to you-we choose the later-either way, our date of conception is almost that of our one-year wedding anniversary and we are slotted to have our son arrive on December 8th, 2009 (the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, no less).

On April 8th, 2009 after feeling a bit under the weather for a few days, slightly irritable, and experiencing soreness in my chest-I decided to use a pregnancy test (since I have a batch at my house for my job-you never know what my clients will run into)...and lo and behold! A positive result! I actually did the test upon waking up, cleaned the ferret's litter box, fed the dog, let her outside, changed, and then checked the test-without the slightest thought it would be positive...needless to say, I immediately scheduled an appointment that morning with our primary to get a second opinion. After leaving the office with a smile on my face and the greatest sense of impending doom (each day is more exciting then the next and a bit less fearful), I wandered over to FSU's campus to tell Mike the news.

To be continued...