The results are in! My genetic counselor called me and told me the great news: I'm not a carrier for any of the Jewish diseases so this pregnancy is full-speed ahead! I'm so relieved, and now I can share the wonderful news that I'm pregnant with everyone in my life — including you, the readers of this blog!

We've started!!! And the timing couldn't be better. Yesterday was our first anniversary, and we geared up for it with a weekend of baby-making sex. We've really had a great first year of marriage (we worked out a lot of the relationship kinks during our long engagement), so we're both feeling really good about us and our future. I can't think of a more romantic way to enter this phase.

We celebrated by going for a couples massage on Sunday and going out to a fancy dinner that night, which all felt like a big treat. There was lots of hugging and kissing and handholding and telling each other how grateful we were for one another. And of course, there was sex — free, loving, condomless sex.

In a few short weeks, my husband and I are going to start trying to get pregnant. And to be honest, I'm not exactly sure why I'm advertising this to the world. In fact, I'm a little nervous about sharing this — as though I may be jinxing the outcome by talking about it too much.