8:26am

I spent some time last night reading Your Vegetarian Pregnancy and some time time this morning re-reading bits of The Pregnancy Journal. On Day 7, implantation in the uterus occurs, the process of which will actually displace tissue and cause spotting: "it's evidence that your pregnancy has begun".

That day, I really did think my dot was gonna start, but I only had some spotting. I remember commenting to Tom that I was having a really strange period and I wasn't sure why it was so weird, but I speculated it was, again, due to stress surrounding the wedding planning.

Around this time, I also vaguely began to wonder if we might be pregnant...after all, I was off the pill and we weren't using any form of protection anymore....But, mostly I shrugged off the pregnancy idea and put it off on stress.

Little did I know. Now that I do, I see that day so differently. It was such an insignificant day -- another one of those days where I wandered around in a relative haze -- until I read what was happening inside me. Our little zyggy took root that day, kicking off the start of one of the most important events in our lives....