Megan Navarro
I woke up on a Friday morning in December and something felt different. I was already a day late for my monthly; that wasn’t super unusual, but the day and something still seemed off.
My husband was laying on the couch with our dog and I just decided to get up to take a pregnancy test. At this point, I would have one or two on hand in my bathroom cabinet.
It was a digital test, so those “two pink lines” just said pregnant. That’s right: pregnant. It was the news that I was hoping to get after months of wondering what I am doing wrong, if this is the right timing and just wanting what all of our family and friends already had.
After reading the result, despite thinking that I wanted to do something cute to announce, I immediately went into the other room to surprise my husband because he also didn’t know that I was in the other room for 3-5 minutes waiting on the results of a pregnancy test.
We basked in the joy that we were soon going to become parents, but then the reality and shock started to set in. We laid on our bed for probably a good, solid 30 minutes just talking about our feelings; though this has been something that we have wanted for a very long time, there were also all of these things that we had to start thinking about.
The weekend went by and we still kept our sweet secret between the two of us. Something that was unimaginably difficult because we are both so close to our families and talk to them pretty much every single day.
Monday or Tuesday rolled around and it felt like time to get the ball rolling on setting up our first appointment. If you didn’t know — and I, of course, did my TikTok research to find out — they don’t see you for a few weeks. For reference, we found out on Dec. 19, but didn’t get scheduled for an appointment until Jan. 21.
Then, we went shopping at Walmart to find some baby onesies and socks to wrap some simple gifts to announce to our parents that week. If this time wasn’t special enough, it was also the holidays and we just knew that we wanted to tell our parents on Christmas.
It’s such a sweet time because I am pregnant alongside my cousin, sister-in-law and one of my close friends.
However, there are some overwhelming feelings that have slowly started to creep their way in after finding out that the anticipation of becoming parents has become a reality.
Am I going to be a good mom? What kind of mom will I be?
Am I putting the right things on the baby registry?
Should I start buying things now or wait until after my baby shower?
We need to get the nursery done now
The nursery has to be done before the baby gets here…right?
This person did that, so I have to do that, too, right?
And the list goes on.
Thankfully, my husband is my rock. He has always been the calm in the storm that can be my overwhelming and anxious thoughts — even though I know that he must be feeling scared, too, because this is a major life change.
To our baby: I am excited to meet you in August and I can’t wait to see who you will become.
Navarro is the executive editor for the Hays Free Press/News-Dispatch. She can be reached by emailing [email protected].
