Preggeration: Confirmed

Three and a half months later, I can finally share with new and old readers... Wifey is preggers. Yes, it was planned (which I'm asked half the time), and yes, I am excited (which I'm asked the other half of the time).

It was a bit of a shock when the pregnancy test actually turned out positive, that day on August 19th. Especially due to the fact that the expiration date on the box was August 31st. The second test kit we bought (expiration date was in 2008) also resulted in a positive. Even then I was in denial because I went cheap and bought the Duane Reade brand pregnancy test.

From what I've read, denial wasn't a common symptom of discovering you were going to have a baby. (But fear was.) And the only reason I was in denial, or maybe "disbelief" would be a more accurate description, was that I just had a hard time grasping that something this big was finally happening. The perfect example of something too good to be true.

Regarding the test though, we've been told that you can have a false negative, but you can't have a false positive. I guess that rule would even apply to expired, no-frills generic pregnancy tests. So whether it's a plus sign or two lines versus one, if the test says you're pregnant, they're probably as advertised: over 99% accurate.