About two months ago my girl friend took her last pill, we both joked at the time about how we could just leave it and let nature take her course. We never quite got around to making an appointment with a doctor or family planning whatsit, and here we are five weeks pregnant.
She missed her period about two weeks ago, and did a test on Wednesday, confirming what we thought. It's a strange feeling, our whole lives are going to change in a very short time, and nothing feels very different. We’re both very excited, but life is just going on as normal, we both get up and go to work, while our little secret grows in her belly!!!!
I'm not sure if its sank in or not, I mean, neither of us were very surprised by it, we kind of suspected what was happening, and we both knew that it would happen eventually, I guess we figured it wouldn't happen so quickly. She was a bit more shaken up by it than I was, a bit more emotional, I think she was worried about what I would think.
I'm not really sure what way people normally react to news that your whole life has changed, that the countdown is on to a brand new person entering the world, someone that we'll be responsible for, that we'll take cre of for the rest of our lives. It's amazing thinking about what the future will hold for the tiny thing inside her, but is very scary at the same time. I'm not sure what to make of it all.
The changes in attitude have happened already, she has more or less stopped smoking and I'm making good progress, I've even bought and use a nicotine puffer to help me, today was day one and I managed to go from 20 a day to only four, so I'm quite excited. There’s no way we can continue to smoke, it has to stop, for us and our baby! (how cheesy!!!)
