The Beginning...

My time with Calvin began on Feb 24, 2011       

I handed my husband a card after I had been in to see a doctor. I taped my pregnancy test inside of the card & filmed his reaction. We have been married for 11 years. We had tried 7 times with fertility specialist to become pregnant & never succeeded. We had grown our family through adoption & had given up on the thought that we would ever get to experience a pregnancy. I began to feel sick and saw a doctor thinking I might have a tumor because I had been feeling nauseous & my pants were getting tighter. I never even thought that I could be pregnant. It took me a week to really believe it. I saw his heartbeat on the monitor at my first ultrasound & finally knew it was real. I was so excited to be able to experience life growing inside of me. We both said immediately that we would enjoy our pregnancy however long it lasted as even in the very beginning we were cautious that this dream could become a reality.