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Baby #2

And here we go folks...

Kevin and I are going to have another baby!!! Hello Baby #2!

I'm currently 14 weeks pregnant and am now entering the second trimester zone. First trimester was extraordinarily difficult (triple the symptoms of what I ever went through with Evangeline) and honestly, I am so traumatized that I am willing to tie my tubes after this baby comes out. Thankfully this week there was a change in my symptoms and I'm feeling like I woke up from a bad dream, and it's just nice to feel like I'm myself again. There were a lot of complications the first few weeks, but I'll save that for another post. This post is all about how we found out we were pregnant!

If anyone has been following my blog or talks to me on a regular basis, it's been no secret that Kevin and I have been hoping that we would get pregnant before Evangeline turns 3. It's important to us that she is raised with a play mate who is close in age. We've been trying for a while and have been working with a doctor to time everything, make sure I ovulate, etc etc. In January we actually had to make a last minute family emergency trip to Oklahoma which ended up being super stressful for all of us (and so much more for Evangeline, she had to be re-hospitalized for the first time since the NICU once we arrived back home, poor thing!!) Why am I even mentioning this? Well, this is important because I was supposedly ovulating during the time we were in Oklahoma, and because of the stressful situation I was almost positive we were NOT going to take advantage of that very specific window of time to try and make a baby. I swore we wasted the month of January mainly because of that trip. 

I started to get suspicious we were pregnant because for a week straight I was starving and eating anything and everything in my path. But what really got me was that I started cramping and getting constipated, and the symptoms were EXACTLY what I went through with Evangeline. I decided to test on a Monday January 23 and it came out negative so I was disappointed. However, the symptoms kept getting worse and I was worried that maybe one of my ovarian cysts had gotten bigger. I talked to my OB and he said that it would be best just to test again later in the week to make sure I wasn't pregnant. 

On Saturday January 28, which also happened to be Lunar New Year, I was cramping really bad early in the morning and staring at my husband in the darkness. I was bitter he could sleep so peacefully when the past two weeks I was waking up to painful cramps. I begrudgingly went to the bathroom and prayed that I was pregnant IF ONLY for the reason that I wanted to know why I was cramping so bad! When I pee'd on the cheap-o pregnancy stick I ordered on Amazon, I only saw one line appear and I remember rolling my eyes and thinking "Well, that's not new." and started wondering why I was cramping so badly. I glanced back at the test and then saw another faint line next to the darker line. I gasped and grabbed another more expensive pregnancy test and immediately two lines showed up!!! I started to smile and thank God and washed my hands and opened the door and sang to Kevin "OooOooOOooOOooo BaaaBiiiEEEes..." (just picture my voice singing very high) and he immediately got up and said "NO WAY!" We both started laughing and crying and hugging. It was such a happy moment! Then a few minutes later Evangeline woke up because we were so loud and that's how our morning began.

Praying for a safe and healthy delivery...it is our prayer that this baby is full term! So thankful for this gift!






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