Matt and I are thrilled about our new addition coming to our family in September this year. We can't believe we will soon be a family of 6!! We will be very outnumbered, but can hardly wait to find out if it is a boy or a girl, and yes we are going to find out this time. We have also decided that this will be our last baby. :( we feel like our family will be complete after this baby and I am not sure how many more children my body can handle delivering. It is quite the ordeal to have a c-section, and with each kids it gets harder and harder and I have also had preeclampsia and it gets progressively worse with each pregnancy. So we are excited to be completing our family and sharing the news with our loved ones.
I compiled a photo collage with all of these photos and showed it to my parents, Matt's parents, and Charyn to tell them the news. It took a few minutes before they got the message, but were very excited to be getting a new grandbaby or neice/nephew. After I told the grandparents, I published the picture on facebook and got quite the number of respnses and congratulations. It is so fun to share good news with others!
At this point in the picture, I am only about 6 weeks along. 34 more to go!
I shared the news with my parents when I was about 7.5 weeks. A few days after, I had some bleeding and was really worried about miscarriage. I called the doctor and we had a few blood tests to determine if I was still carrying a fetus. Those were 3 long, and emotional days. It is amazing how attached I felt to this new baby when it was still so small and tiny. In fact I hadn't even seen a sonogram of it or heard it's heart beat, but I was still so worried about losing this precious life. I cried, and cried and then I finally came to peace with whatever was to happen. I knew that Heavenly Father would bless us with another child it if was His will. I also knew that if I did miscarry, I would have the opportunity to raise this child in the next life. I am so grateful for the knowledge I have of the plan of Salvation and the peace it brought into my life at this scary time. I took a blood test on Monday morning then had to go back on Wednesday to see if my HCG levels had increased or deceased. It was so hard to wait and not know, but I was feeling positive that I was still pregnant after I had talked to a few friends that had had miscarriages and realized what happened to me was quite different. Wednesday passed and I still hadn't heard back from the Doctor. Finally on Thursday morning I got a call to tell me that I was still indeed pregnant!! YAY!! We were so excited. After this little scare we decided not to share the news with anyone else until I was in the second trimester, just in case.
I was about 11 weeks along when we told Matt's parents and I was almost 12 weeks when we put the picture on Facebook. After reaching 13 weeks I was so relieved and knew that everything would be fine. I went to the doctor at 9 weeks and I was able to have an ultrasound where I saw the beautiful little baby in my belly and saw it's amazing hear beating. I could litterally see this litle tiny heart beating and pumping blood, it is such a miracle and I know that from the moment of conception, it is a new and miraculous life, seeing on the monitor just makes it that much more real!!
After the first doctors visit, I showed the kids the picture of the sonogram and asked if they knew what it was, Parker immediately said, "Another baby?!" I am not sure if he was happy or shocked. Paige was abslutely thrilled and from that moment on insisted that is was to be a baby sister. (Previous to us telling the kids, Matt was tucking her in bed one night and she told him that we were going to have 2 babies and we were going to name them Peter, and Pieper. Not sure how she knew we were having a baby, but I was sure hoping that she wasn't having sibling intiuition and that we would be having twins!) Paxten could have cared less and didn't really know what the picture was but he ooohhed and aahhed about it like he does when he sees any picture.
We are hoping to find out the sex of the baby at 17 weeks and are planning on having a special party to tell a bunch of family and friends. It will be a blast.
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