by Timiarah A. Camburn

Created on: December 15, 2010

I still remember the day I found out I was pregnant with "J". I think I was the happiest girl in the world. The pregnancy came as quite a surprise since I had just recently broken up with my boyfriend. We had been going through some very trying times and had not really seen each other much so I was not expecting to be...expecting.

I remember I was with a friend in Florida when I noticed that my stomach was really bloated and it looked almost like a baby. We joked around about my puffy belly but I just assumed it was some sort of gas and forgot about it.

When I returned from my trip I took a pregnancy test because my stomach was still a bit swollen. Although I knew my ex and I had only been together maybe twice in the previous month due to our personality conflicts, something just told me to take the test anyway.

My mouth remained wide open as I stared at the blue plus sign that was in front of my face. As I was sitting there staring at it I also realized that I was late! I had so much going on mentally that I didn't even notice that my monthly friend had disappeared. Wow! Talk about shock. We always hear about how it only takes one time for a pregnancy to occur. Well, this was literally a case of it only taking one time for a pregnancy to occur. It could not have been the night I was with him right before I left for Florida, so it had to have been that one time during the month before that.  

I was shocked but still very happy. I adored my ex and was very excited about being pregnant with his child the moment I found out. Of course I still couldn't believe I was so I took about six more tests before it sunk in. I even took a digital one just in case I was reading the other ones wrong. No. The digital test actually spelled out "PREGNANT!" as well.

After my seventh test I finally went to see an obstetrician. I figured it was time to start taking care of myself. I took a blood test that confirmed the pregnancy once more, then I notified my ex.

I was never really sick with this one. I thought that was great since I had gotten severe morning sickness before. Everything was going really well with this pregnancy until I went to get an ultrasound at around week eight. For some reason they could not see the baby in my uterus. He was obviously there but the ultrasound was not picking up on it. After several attempts at getting some pictures of the baby, the doctor rescheduled my ultrasound and started having me take blood tests every few days so he could monitor my

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