I was tidying up the apartment, you know, waiting in that two-minute window round.

And so again, I've never had a positive pregnancy test.

So every month I was tracking my ovulation, ovulation strips, you know, waiting the two weeks.

I mean, I stopped taking pregnancy tests because it's just so expensive.

And I could feel when my period was

coming on anyway, you know, the signs. And it came up positive. It said I was pregnant and I was

literally speechless. Mike walked in the door and he was sort of like on his phone walking in

and I just put it in front of

him of his phone and he just looked at me and like this pure shock horror like are you kidding me

like are you are you are you having me on he's like is this real and I was like yes like so we were just

I just felt like we were headless

chooks. We were like walking around the apartment, like, what do we do now? What does this mean?

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