Pregnancy Blog

Pregnant? Who, me?

I always thought the moment I find out I’m pregnant would be the way of so many other women. I’d be sitting next to my husband, holding the home pregnancy test and our eyes would meet as the pink lines surfaced and would result in an all-night love fest. Not quite. I found out I was pregnant by going to do the doctor complaining about my growing stomach and ‘period-like cramping’, and begging her to refer me to an IVF specialist. It turns out I’d overlooked the (very small and limited) signs and effectively missed most of the first trimester of my pregnancy. The funny thing about that? I’d spent the previous two months shelling out hundreds of dollars having fertility acupuncture and taking Chinese medicine trying to get pregnant, while I was actually already pregnant!