Is this a worrisome and stressful question that has been repeated over and over in your mind since the day you saw the positive lines on a pregnancy test? If so, kick your feet back and scroll down. This one is for you!

Through the years of working as a pregnancy center nurse, I have been met with this question many times. “When did I get pregnant?” If we are being honest, it is not an unlikely circumstance for men and women in this day to be sexually active with more than one partner. When pregnancy occurs in casual relationships, it can cause great stress for the man and woman in determining when the pregnancy occurred.

But there is good news! We are going to break down this question today. The first thing we need to do is define some key words.

1. What is Ovulation?

“Ovulation occurs when your ovary releases an egg. It happens around the 14th day of a 28-day menstrual cycle.” [1]

2. What is Conception?

According to the Cleveland Clinic, “Conception happens when sperm swims up through the vagina and fertilizes an egg in the fallopian tube. It happens in the hours or days after you have unprotected sex. After conception, the fertilized egg implants into the uterus and a pregnancy begins.” [2]

You are living your normal day to day life and then all of a sudden, your heart falls to your stomach. You realize you can’t remember the last time you had a period and have recently been sexually active.

You take a pregnancy test and see the positive test results. Maybe you are excited! Maybe you are scared. Maybe you are depressed. Maybe you are in complete shock and have no idea what to do next.

The shock slowly wears off. You begin to picture your life with a little baby. You realize that you feel great! You must be one of the lucky ones with no pregnancy symptoms, right? But then you enter into your sixth week of pregnancy and BAM!

• Nausea
• “Morning sickness” that is really ALL day sickness
• Food aversions
• Frequent urination
• Insomnia
• Breast tenderness
• Intense emotions

[To name a few…] All of a sudden, you definitely feel pregnant! Are these normal signs of pregnancy? Is everything ok?

Let’s talk about it!

According to the Oxford Dictionary, hope is defined as “a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen.”

As I reflect on the year 2023, I have seen a lot of hope found and a lot of hope lost.

I have walked with many women down many journeys on this ultrasound table you see above.

As I performed an ultrasound this year, one young woman stated “I had lost hope,” as she looked with astonishment at the ultrasound screen. She saw a baby that she was told she would never have naturally. She told me she had lost hope in ever having a baby naturally after years of trying.

She found hope that day.

Another young woman sat on this same ultrasound table and was reviewing her pregnancy history with me. While gathering this history, she explained that only a few months prior to this ultrasound appointment, she had lost hope in her situation. She did not believe she could parent a baby and chose to have an abortion. With lots of love I asked, “How are you doing?” Her response was wordless but the newly formed tears said it all. She was experiencing major regret.

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