8weeks 6days; My little peanut.
So were pregnant! (pictures posted yesterday) It feels sooo good to actually have everyone around us know! We found out Super bowl night…Well I found out Super Bowl night. Hec was at his friends house, and I just wasn’t feeling well so I said I’d rather stay home (now we have an explanation as to why I wasn’t feeling well lol) Well at about 7pm or so one of my close family friends called me up freaking out that she might be pregnant, I told her to go pick up a test and come over and take it at my place. So when she got there she didn’t want to take the test alone so she begged me to do it with her, I guess the whole peeing on a stick thing is easier when you have a friend doing the same. I didn’t think anything of it, I wasn’t even due to have my monthly friend for another week or week and a half. So as her one little negative line came up on her test and relief swam over her, I stared at these two very familiar pink lines on my test. Remembering telling her these things are almost always accurate I told her “this stupid thing has got to be wrong! I have an IUD!” I ripped out her other two boxes of tests she had bought, and peed on them all and vwa-la, 6 pink lines and two “pregnant” signs popped up in the window of the test. I was shocked. I have gotten pregnant on the IUD before, it was RIGHT after I had my daughter three years ago and the dr. explained that often new mother who get the IUD will have an issue with it because of uterine contractions that still occur to your knowledge or not months after giving birth. Well last time the IUD failed me it turned out to be a eptopic pregnancy (very common with IUD pregnancies) and they removed both. Well I got a new IUD in and have had it for 2 years with NOO problems at all so I was baffled at these tests telling me the impossible.
I didn’t call Hector right away, I wanted him to enjoy his night out, he works almost every night so he rarely gets to get out and have a good time so I decided to wait until he got home. I left the tests on the coffee table and went to bed later that night, now feeling even more queasy.
Next thing I knew he was standing in the doorway with the tests in hand with the most quizzical look on his face, very similar to face a few hours before. He asked “are…these, your tests?” I nodded.
He came and sat on the bed and we talked a long time. Though still shocked because we don’t understand how my IUD worked perfectly for two years and suddenly decided to let a swimmer through the gates, we both agreed it was as perfect time as any. Being a mother already, I know that there really is no PREFECT time. You will always have doubts and “what if’s”, but for us it seemed perfect, we both had very stable jobs we are happy with, Kendra is the perfect age for a sibling and we have the computer room downstairs to convert into the nursery in addition to my messy divorce and custody battle at an end. We hugged and I cried (stupid hormones! Lol) and we laughed and asked questions and we fell asleep knowing that we are now starting the rest of our lives.
Because of having the tubal pregnancy before, my doctor had me in the next day to make sure it was not tubal again. He took the IUD out and we waited a few days to make sure I did not miscarry. Everything seemed to be working out. The next few weeks were all about picking a name, We picked the boys name out very fast, but we will keep that a secret until he graces us with his presence. We still go back and forth when it comes to a girls name, nothing seems right but we have 6 ½ more months to figure it out. Kendra is so excited to have a baby sister, yes sister, she REFUSES to even acknowledge that it may be a boy. When we tell her it might be she gives us this “duhhh” look and reminds us that it will be a girl and her name will be Taylor Swift, lol yes, she has already named her might be baby sister.
This is all very exciting. Our families are so excited for the new addition as are we. I hope this baby takes after my hunnie, calm, chill, laid back and easy going. Kendra is the total drama queen, a high strung perfectionist like her mama, she has the biggest heart in the world though she loves with everything in her, she is so very passionate about all she does, an attribute that Hec says she gets from me, I wont disagree. She is super adventurous, was walking by 8/12 months running by 10 and hasn’t stopped since. She’s going to be an actor or an athlete or maybe excel at both so it would be nice to have a baby that is content with going with the flow. Keeping up with his/her big sister will be no easy task haha. I cant wait to start this journey. I’m 8 weeks and 6 days and have what seems like an eternity left until we get to meet this little peanut growing inside me, making me more exhausted than I have ever felt and throw up my dinner at 8:15 almost on the dot every night yet filling me with such a happiness and a feeling of completeness, babies have a weird way of draining you of all you have yet making you feel like the king of the world all at the same time.
