August 2: Today we found out we are going to be blessed with another baby. What an exciting and shocking day it has been. I couldn't sleep at all last night because I just had this feeling that I was pregnant. We have a box of about 50 test strips because when you try for 11 months with negative after negative you resort to buying in bulk because it is so cheap. Stephen and I had given up trying until I could go to the doctor and figure out what was up because its not that I just wasn't getting pregnant. I wasn't having many periods either. I decided two days ago that what the heck I would just take a few more tests just to see. If I squinted a lot I could barely imagine a second red line showing up on the test but I knew I was just trying to convince myself of it. So I took those cheap little tests for two days and then thought I need the real thing.
So this morning I went to the store and bought the nicest test they make. After seeing so many negative tests you try your hardest to not get excited or hopeful. Then I looked at the test and it said pregnant! I was in shock for a good long while. Very similar to my experience after finding out we were pregnant with Everett.
I immediately pulled out Everett's big brother shirt that I had bought a year earlier. Luckily I bought it like two sizes too big so it still fit him. Poor Stephen had just finished 3 weeks of night shifts and was dead tired asleep on the couch. I gave Everett the test and told him to go give it to dad and show him his new shirt. Stephen was as shocked and surprised as I was. A couple days later and we still aren't sure if we believe it but as that day went on Stephen and I had already started talking plans for our sweet new baby and celebrated by eating out as a family. I have a doctor's appointment in two weeks that I scheduled a month ago to talk about options in helping us get pregnant. Instead we may be getting our first look at baby!
August 14: Today was our first ultrasound and doctors appointment. I absolutely love my doctor. Her name is Dr. Fisher and at first seemed a bit intimidating until she started talking to us. She is incredible and I feel so blessed to have found such a great doctor. She suggested an ultrasound to get an accurate due date. Baby measured at 6 weeks 2 days old meaning my due date is April 7th! If this baby is anything like Everett though we will expect due date to be sometime at the end of March. It was so incredible seeing its little heartbeat. The ultrasound tech told me that if I had been in there a few days earlier it probably would have been too soon to see a heartbeat. My next appointment is in four weeks.
September 11: Today was a very special day. Stephen and I were both able to listen to babies little heartbeat for the first time. It was such an amazing thing. The little heartbeat was going so fast. 175 bpm. I have been feeling oh so sick the last four weeks, especially at night all night. As long as I have food in me I feel a little better. Which means I have done nothing but eat non stop. And I had forgotten just how exhausting it is to make a human. Especially while taking care of a two year old. It has been so fun though. I wouldn't change any of it.
October 10: I am writing about this doctors appointment about two weeks late but this was my last appointment in my first trimester! It was a short visit and babies heart was still sounding good at 160 bpm. We scheduled the gender ultrasound!
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