#2

It was the first of June when I figured something wasn't right with my body. Not to sound gross, but mother nature hadn't come when I thought it would. It was normal for me to skip a month, because I had just gotten done with exams from school but when I started to cramp and nothing happened, I began to worry. I'm the type of person to say 'Google it' when there's something wrong or I don't know something. So I googled, "Can cramps be an early sign of pregnancy?" I knew If I was pregnant I couldn't be far because I remember mother nature called right at the end of April. When the search results came up that Yes, cramping is a sign of pregnancy, I began to panic. Not a bad panic where I couldn't think, but to the point where I was thinking "How were we going to be able to take care of a baby If we were just establishing ourselves in our new home?" Of course, there's the whole, "Well, you should've waited until marriage If you weren't ready for a baby," thing and obviously that was a choice we didn't make. I took my 15 minute work break earlier than normal and drove to the closest family dollar and picked up a pack of 2 home pregnancy test. I spent $13 for both of them just to make sure it was accurate. When I got back to work, I went into the bathroom (which is luckily only for one person, so I could do this alone) and did what I had to do and when I saw the one strong line and the other faint line, I went white. I felt all the blood rush from my face to everywhere else in my body and I went numb.

It's not that I didn't want to be a mom, I just never thought It'd actually come a time when I was actually not trying to have a baby and end up pregnant. I shoved the stick back in the box and back into the bag and went to my office. I told my closest co-worker to come to my office because I needed to talk to her about something. She saw how pale I was and asked was I okay? I told her I just did a pregnancy test and I think it came out positive. I showed her the results and she said, "That looks positive, but don't panic. You don't know for sure." I knew she was familiar with the whole 'Unexpected pregnancy' thing because not only had she had her two children unexpectedly, her daughter had as well. When I went to her office later that day she told me If I was worried about money that there was tons of assistants out there and that I wasn't alone. This happened all the time. I was glad she calmed me down because I felt like a train came at me with full speeds!

I got home that night and told my husband the news. We had a scare once or twice before, but I wasn't so sure those times. This time, I just knew in my gut.. and my uterus that something was different. So we scheduled an official appointment and found out I was indeed pregnant. After telling our parents we became totally okay with it. It's not like we didn't want the child, just were shocked it actually happened. We are twenty-two and twenty-three, have full time jobs, stable vehicles and live in our own place so there really wasn't much to "nag" about. We're so glad our families were happy though. That'd be an even bigger 'uh oh' that I didn't want to mess with.