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Hi! My name is Dana (22) and I'm pregnant with my first baby, a BOY! due around Feb 16. His name is Benjamin, after his daddy. Ben (21) and I met in high school and we'll be celebrating our 5th year anniversary on November 2. We've been living together for over 3 years and we bought a house in July '06. We were pretty shocked to find out we were going to be parents but now we can't wait to have our little one here!

How I found out I was pregnant:
I was two weeks late (period) so I had my mom go out and get me a pregnancy test. I took it at her house. Now I always read the directions with everything, but for some reason I didn't read the directions with the test. There was one dark line and one very, very faint line, so we all just assumed it was negative. Later that night I get a call from my 9 year old little sister who tells me she was reading the directions and that even if you get a faint line you could still be pregnant!! So the next morning I took another test, and the second line was much more visible. AND, I took another test the next morning, and the next morning! All positive! The doctor confirmed it on Monday June 18 and I had an u/s on Tuesday June 26 where I heard the heartbeat and found out I was 6 weeks and 3 days along! Thank goodness my sister had the brains to read that little pamphlet!

2-14-08 39 weeks 5 days
Even though I constantly have people asking me how I'm doing and how the baby's doing, I have never felt more alone in my life. I actually feel this way all the time. Ben works 2nd shift, he gets home about 11:15pm and I usually go to our bedroom to watch tv b/c I don't really care to watch SportsCenter or watch him play his STUPID video games, he usually comes to bed around 5am and gets up around 130pm and then he leaves about 230pm for work....Mon-Fri, that's his schedule. And on the weekends its nothing but video games or we do something with his best friend and his girlfriend which is fine but its EVERY weekend. I tell him that pretty soon we won't have any time for each other but he just shrugs, he doesn't care. I have this bathroom storage cabinet that goes over the toilet and Ben said he would help me put it together and its still sitting in the box and we got it over two weeks ago, I also have a filing cabinet that needs to be put together but that also is still sitting in its box and I got that over a month ago. I do everything around the house, Ben's only job is to take out the trash but lately I've been doing that, what gives? It took me two days to do a sink full of dishes b/c my back was hurting so bad, but did Ben offer to help? NO! The bathroom needs to be cleaned, the kitchen floor needs to be swept and mopped, the floor needs to be vacuumed.....but I guess none of that will ever get done. Maybe when the baby's about 6 months old I'll finally have the energy to do it all, but right now walking from room to room is exhausting. Sure people say if I need anything to let them know, they're more than willing to help out, but how do I expect someone else to clean my bathroom?? My baby is due in two days and he's showing no signs of coming anytime soon and I don't blame him. His mother is a loser.

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