First entry - the big news

Just eight little letters signalled the beginning of the rest of my life. Those letters, spelled out as tiny black LCD dots, read one thing, one word I was really not expecting, but secretly hoping…pregnant.

For days now, Cat had been wondering if our one moment of unprotected husband-wife hanky panky would be enough to make her pregnant since it occurred on the same day as her Persona said she was ovulating.

That would be too ridiculously easy I confidently claimed. There was no way, that in just one half hearted naive attempt at conception, she would get pregnant. I mean, surely we were destined for months and months of ‘trying’like almost every other couple I had talked to.

Well, the first pregnancy test was one of those watch the lines type and you need to see two lines to confirm the pregnancy. The second line was very feint so I assumed it was a negative. Cat was less sure, so she bought a different brand – this time a digital one – and sure enough, there it was spelled out in black and white.

So here we are, a couple of hours into our first pregnancy and I am still too much in shock to take in the magnitude of the situation. A million thoughts race through my head, much the same as a billion fathers to be before me have thought. Like, My God, what a baby, now? I’m not ready. Will it be healthy. What if it’s a boy..or a girl? How will we cope financially. I’m dying to tell everyone, but caution, caution there is a long way to go and it seems, we are only on the very first rung of a very big ladder. Excitement and barely contained happiness mixed with anciety are what fills me at this moment in time.