Well somewhere...somehow something changed. I wasn't the only one who was sick. I was on the mend but now, the Hunny Bunny was sick. She was nauseous, getting headaches. We thought it was just a rough bout of allergies but one Home Pregnancy Test later...we learned that someone was up to something!
Now I am sure you are thinking the same thing I was about 4 weeks ago. How did this happen? Yes we were taking all the right steps to ensure that a little bambino/bambina was not in our immediate future...but then my wife told me. There was a 1 week period where her prescription lapsed (dumb pharmacists) and theoretically we could have conceived.
Well, according to our calculations we must be 10 weeks along. We were guided to a local OB/GYN who everyone seems to adore. We talked shop, my overall disdain for the field of OB/GYN and my subsequent 6 weeks of misery, as well as a little Birds & the Bees. Well she ensued to describe to us what the baby looks like at 10 weeks. Small...about the size of a Gummy Bear. I was so excited. I love Gummy Bears! Well we turned on the ultrasound and this is what we saw....
Apparently, my definition of a Gummy Bear was waaaaay off. I was staring face to face with my Baby to be! We were 17 weeks pregnant...I nearly wet my pants I was so excited! My Baby was waving right at us. I felt like it** was taunting us...saying I've been here the entire time (Something I could see myself doing, so I know it's my kid)! Which leads us to the entire "Immaculate" title. "Allegedly", when the Baby was conceived, we were on birth control the entire time. The whole 99.9% effective claim is apparently accurate, it just happens that we were the 0.1%. No complaints here though. Although I will consider a hefty lawsuit to the birth control companies to help pay for this Baby's college education.
I can't believe that I am going to be Daddy and we couldn't have planned better timing. When we first found out about a baby was on the way, I looked at my schedule and realized, after December my life is a vacation with the occasional visit to clinic to pretend to be a doctor. I will have literally months to spend with my Baby and Baby's Momma before I have to actually start working next July.
It's incredible what the next few months are going to bring but with the Hunny Bunny at my side we can tackle anything. In just a couple of weeks we will start the feel the Baby move! I'm in heaven. The only hard part at this point and time is picking a name. We decided against anything common, but we won't go as far to name our child after a monkey in the zoo. Any thoughts from my loyal fans? You have until approximately December 4th to come up with something convincing!
All this commotion has made me sleepy. Its time for a well earned nap as I dream about my cute little baby too-be swimming around in its own pee...
*Yes, I said Conception, not Reception. I look nothing like Terry Bradshaw.
**The Sex is TBA. You have to wait 3 more weeks before you know the answer. Until then, it's gender neutral references.
