Not everybody knows this, but last year I went into my ob for a check up after I had gotten my iud removed the previous November due to complications with it. When they did an ultrasound, everything looked OK,  except for finding out I have fibroid tumors in my uterus. Doctor said that they can cause infertility, and that I might not be able to conceive, which is what I really wanted to be able to do. One last baby with the love of my life. Doctor told us we can keep trying, but chances are I won't be able to have another child. Well, with ovarian cancer running in my family on my mama's side, I finally came the the decision to get a full hysterectomy to take care of both the ovarian cancer issue and the fibroids. Took me about 8 months to finally call my doctor to schedule the surgery, but I did it and it was scheduled for the end of this month. I prayed countless times to let us get pregnant, but even after 8 more months of trying, it still didn't happen. Fast forward to end of June and I had a doctor's appointment with my primary about my fibromyalgia and I was only a day late from my period, but she decided to give me a pregnancy test anyways. It came back negative and so I chalked it up to being stressed about my job etc. Well, the next week went by and I still hadn't started, so I went and bought a home pregnancy test and within 30 seconds it was positive! I couldn't believe it,  so I booked an appointment with panhandle health and they confirmed that their test was also positive. At this point I'm freaking out, to say the least. I call my ob and schedule an appointment, but they don't see newly pregnant women until 8 weeks, and so that was the longest 3 weeks of my life! I go to the appointment and have an ultrasound only to see there's a baby in there, 8w3d, exactly what I thought based off my lmp and ovulation. Heart beat was strong at 170 bmp. I cried. I didn't think this could happen... I did my blood tests at 10w3d for the NIPT testing, which tests for chromosome abnormalities and it tests for fetal sex as well, and I got my results back last week. So here's my announcement. I am now 13 weeks along with a very low risk baby girl that Asa and I get to call our own. I'm scared shitless because I honestly didn't think it would ever happen, especially since I finally got over the fact that it wasn't going to happen for us and had scheduled my hysterectomy. Asa and I are over the moon excited as well as scared, but there's a higher power somewhere that really wanted this baby to be born, and I couldn't be more blessed. Baby Strobel is due 2/28/2023, but because of this being my final scheduled csection, she will be here on the week of the 19th. I'm really hoping my doctor allows me to schedule it on the 19th, since that's my mama's birthday and I can't think of a better way to celebrate her than to have this baby on her birthday, but we will see. Almost out of my 1st trimester, so hopefully the nausea let's off soon! Lol