My Pregnancy Test Result Drama

Below is the blog I wrote last March when we found out that I’m pregnant.  Because of my critical condition, I decided not to post this then.  Now, with the rest of my pregnancy photos, I’m posting this “madrama” na entry.

Rissa Singson-Kawpeng is Kerygma’s editor-in-chief.  Since I was engaged, I was able to read up Kerygma issues that my then-fiance has.  I was able to follow Rissa’s story when she got engaged, got married and when she got pregnant.  I even welled up reading her story on how she discovered she was pregnant.  You see, Rissa is not-so-young anymore, and getting pregnant on her honeymoon is truly a miracle from God.  I cried when she narrated how she wept in the OB-GYN’s office looking at the ultra-sound monitor.  I cried with her because I was so happy for her… and that I so envied her – I too wanted to be pregnant like her.

On the March issue of Kerygma, Rissa’s article was about her pregnancy and how she is putting all her faith to God knowing how delicate the first three months and the succeeding months of being pregnant are.  I thought to myself, when will I have these concerns?

Four days delayed of my scheduled menstruation, March 11, 2008, I woke my husband at 4:00 in the morning to stand guard outside the bathroom as I was to pee and take the pregnancy test.  (‘cz if I was positive, I didn’t want some “kikik” looking through the window without my husband nearby.  Hihihi…)

Using the dropper of the kit, I placed 3 drops on the specimen well.  Having used a pregnancy kit for the first time, I was amazed as the liquid ran through the result slot forming the first line, and… as it reached the end part a thicker and clearer line appeared.  Two lines!!!  Two lines!!! I’m pregnant!!!  But as I looked closer, the first line was lighter or more blurry than that of the second.  It’s obvious that there were 2 lines, but is this it?  Does it count even if both lines are not equally clear?  It was 4:00 AM, we had no one to ask about it.  I had to wait for morning and ask my friend Ms. N.

Morning seemed too long as Tope and I talked of how we are so happy and blessed by God.  As soon as I finished getting ready for work, I went to Ms. N, an expert on pregnancy stuff (she was on her 5th pregnancy then. ;D).  Alas! The answer I needed was finally confirmed – the lines were valid, I am pregnant!  Praise GOD!