Military Doctors

This post is not going to bash the wonderful doctors that I have been assigned to. Anyone who was dealt with military doctors or hospitals can completely sense the sarcasm. Instead, I want to share with you all our first doctor appointment. Since I have recently started working, my schedule has been crazy. I know longer have a day to myself to run errands and make appointments. Fortunately, I worked really quick this week & was able to give myself Friday off.Justin & I arrived at the hospital at 8:45am. After waiting 45 minutes to go back, I was finally called. A nurse took us down a very long hallway, into our room. I was then given a urine pregnancy test, which was confirmed! It was such a relief to have a professional confirm my diagnosis...lol! Justin had to believe me now :) We were then taken into the consultation room to pick an OB. They give us a list, tell us a little about each of them, and then we just pick one. I sure hope, I picked a good one.I am very excited to have a civilian physician. My doctor is located in downtown Columbia, only about 10 minutes from where we live. Justin then talked to his branch manager and had his orders changed to October. We will be able to stay in SC until after the baby is born. I really hope he can get his orders pushed back a little bit more, so we are not moving an infant.

Great Day!

We are definitely pregnant. The faded pink line is now getting darker & shows up in the 5 minute time slot. So I take the test to Justin, who is sitting on the couch at the time, thinking he will be very excited. Yet again, he thinks I am crazy. We then proceed with the conversation about ovulation test strips compared to pregnancy test strips. For those of you who do not know... Ovulation tests strips are considered to have a positive result when the line is equal or darker than the control line. Pregnancy test strips work a little different. They are considered "positive" when any pink line is evident. After explaining this to Justin and even showing him the "Positive result gallery" on a website, he finally realizes he is going to be a daddy :) I must stand up for my man. I tend to get very excited over little things and then get disappointed later. So I completely understand when he is hesitant a first. But we are both VERY excited about becoming parents in September.

Day 3

I started to get the "Pregnancy Feeling." Rather people believe it has any significance or not, I feel pregnant. The test showed a faded pink link. OMG, I am really pregnant. Justin of course still does not think that my pale pink lines mean anything, since it takes more than the 5 minutes to show up. Oh well, forget him (LOL). Due date estimates: September 26-30th. This will vary based off of the website I am on. So I am going to have to wait for an ultrasound.

Day 2!

After a long day of thinking about rather or not I could be pregnant, I was very excited to go to bed, so I could test again. Nothing... 8 DPO! I tell myself, that it was day 12 for Megan, so I can hold out hope for a few more days.

Very exciting morning!

Today is a big millstone for the "Future Baby Cox." I knew that if I became pregnant this month, than I would find out sometime in the next week or so. Today is the first day I started testing. It is currently 7 DPO. Most people tell you to wait until 12-14 DPO before you test, but I cant wait. After the 5 minute testing time, nothing showed up. It was a sad moment, but then I realized that it is still VERY early. About an hour later, I went back and looked at the test--- There is a shadow of a line. Most people will say that it does not mean anything. But to me, it means everything. It is the first time in 5 months that there was a glimpse of pregnancy hope.

Another day in January

So when we started our blog almost a month ago, I really felt like I was going to be dedicated to keeping up with it. Well I guess the busy traveling scheduled had something to do with my failed attempt so far.

It has been a tough few weeks since we have been back. Getting into the swing of things and playing catch up on all the stuff we were unable to do while we were traveling. 2010 is going to be an unpredictable year for us. We are still planning on heading to Fort Drum, New York. Neither one of us are excited about this. Yes we are happy to be going somewhere together and it should be "Permanent," well at least that's what the Army calls it. But heading to New York brings up a lot of decision making. Are we in a position to purchase a home? Should be live on post and give up $1300 a month in rent or find somewhere cheaper to rent off post?

Then the questions become a lot more serious. Is Justin going to be deploying while we are there? Well, there is a very good chance of that happening. So now we have a lot more factored into where we live. If we live on post or get a house we will be stuck with it regardless of his deployment situation. If we rent from an outsider, then I could give up the apartment in 30days and head to Cincinnati. But is that what I want to do? I really want to be into a graduate program & therefore moving while Justin is deployed will not be an option.

So much going on in our minds right now!

One great thing that 2010 has brought for us in our Church family. After living in Columbia for 4 days we found St. Andrew's Baptist, we have now been attending there for over a year. We are both involved in a young couples bible study, extended child care program (that can be an entire blog all on its own) and an IWed class for young couples. I have also been on the Prayer committee and recently started in a woman's bible study group. So basically we are spending 3-5 days a week at church & loving every minute of it. I am actually heading to help paint the children wing today & Justin will be joining me this evening. God has truly blessed us with a great group of people to be around, and we love them all.

So if you have started to look through our blog you will notice there is not much to it. I am going to figure out how to add pictures & make it fun! You will also notice that it is called "The Cox's Growing Family." We are NOT pregnant... yet! It has been something we have talked about long before we were ever dating. We also joked about having little Justin's or little Ashley's. When we got married we decided we would wait a year or two to get used to this marriage stuff before we tried to tackle adding an addition to our family. While Justin was gone at basic training we spent 9 weeks & 6 days writing letters about everything. One of the topics that was brought up was about having children. We both really enjoy all the children we are around and our nieces and nephew's. So we decided that we would try sometime after basic training.

The end of July was going to be the last of our use of birth control and from there we would let God make the decisions in our life in regards to having our first child. I of course thought this would be something that would happen instantly for us. I have heard from a mother in-law of mine (no names) that she became pregger's the first month off the pill & other friends of mine didn't seem to have much trouble either.

Well August became September then October, November & December... Hmmmm~ There must be more to this than we thought. I talked to my doctor and she said it is normal & if we are not pregnant by January then to come in and we will talk about fertility treatments. Well that is not something we want to consider at any time. So we are going to take it one day at a time and see what life brings us. We know that God has a plan for us and one day when he feels it is time for us to be parents, we will be. We appreciate all the prayers and support with this. It is not something we are wanting to focus on, we are trying to live for today.

So now everyone know! Such a relief :)

I guess this will wrap up my first official blog.

-ash