Before we got married, I was already baby hungry which wasn't the best timing because we were both 21 when we got married and still needed to find out what we needed to do in life. I never tried to bring it up to Braden, but after a year of marriage I decided to have "the talk". So after the talk we prayed and fasted about it and no firm answer. So a couple days before the April 2012 General Conference, we prayed to reciever our answer, during conference, if it was the right time for us to start trying. The Sunday morning session started, and the first speaker was Elder Boyd K. Packer. The title of his talk was And a Little Child shall lead them. Two quotes that really stuck with me were, "The creation of life is a great responsibility for a married couple. It is the challenge of mortality to be a worthy and responsible parent." and "Husbands and wives should understand that their first calling—from which they will never be released—is to one another and then to their children." If that wasn't our answer, I didn't know what would be? When he ended his talk, Braden and I were silent then looked at each other, with tears steaming down my face, we both had big smiles and knew the time was near. We waited until we finished our internship in the Cayman Islands, and started trying in late August. When we got the offer to manage a store in St. Augustine, that was a hard decision for us because I didn't want to have the baby while we were living far from family but we didn't want to miss out on this great opportunity. So after talking with Del Sol and telling them our situation, they were very kind and cut our contract short so we could move back to Utah before the baby was born. So off to Flordia we went.
But things didn't turn out like we planned. Month after month of getting negative pregnancy tests, I was getting pretty down and questioning alot of things "is something wrong with me" "will I ever be able to be a Mom" etc. I feel terrible for those who take years to get pregnant or cant at all, my heart goes out to them. Out of no where, we got a new offer to open a store in Maui and manage it. Again, another hard decision to make but we weren't able to get pregnant and we didn't know how long it would take us so we accepted and went to Maui. My parents were planning on coming and visiting us in March, but if we ended up getting pregnant and having the baby here, we wanted family to be here and with my Dads work schedule, I didn't know if they could come down more than once. We were keeping it a secert from family that we were even trying, but we felt like it was time to tell our parents. Braden's parents were in Maui on vaction with friends and we told them over dinner that we have been trying. They were so happy for us and wished us the best. And then we told my parents so we could figure something out about when they would come visit. Well, a week later I was late but I was afraid to take another pregnancy test because it might be another negative. So I waited a few days and took a test.. I squeeked like a mouse and had the biggest grin on my face when I saw that POSITIVE sign on the pregnancy test!!! I went into our bedroom holding the test, crying ( and Braden thought, oh great.. another negative) then I said, We're Pregnant!!! He was so happy. It was a wonderful moment. We started talking about when we should tell family. We thought we would wait a couple weeks, but as the day went on the couple weeks turned to a week, then days, then tomorrow and then that night. We were so excited that we couldn't keep it in. It was hard to focus at work that day. That night we were so exited to tell family. We would have loved to tell them in person, but Facetime is the best we had. Both of our parents had the same reaction, they are over joyed but shocked at first because we just told them a week before that we weren't pregnant. Braden's sister, Alyssa, had the best reaction out of everyone. It was hilarious. When we told her, she froze then put her hands on her head and started jumping and running around the house, it was awesome! We only told our parents and siblings and then waited until after our first appointment to tell extended family and friends.
YAHOO!!
Baby Hirschi's first picture: Ultrasound at 6 weeks
8 week ultrasound- The baby is doing great and we were able to hear the heart beat at both 6 and 8 week appointments.
5 weeks
8 weeks
10 weeks
CAN'T WAIT TO BE PARENTS!!
