Good News Mama!

A little over two years ago, I was crying to my cousin because I had just found out I was suffering a miscarriage. Not only was it a miscarriage of a baby whom I was losing, but it was also the loss of a twin that Elianna would not grow up with. And when a person miscarries a twin early enough, the baby doesn't come out the way a typical miscarriage happens...the baby just gets reabsorbed into the mom and into the twin. "You should really watch This Is Us. The first episode is about a miscarriage too, except the character played by Mandy Moore loses a triplet." my cousin told me through her tears, as she comforted me since the wounds were so fresh. There are a lot of things within the show that I do not relate with: I never lost a dad to an unexpected death. I do not have an adoptive sibling or was adopted myself looking for a birth parent. I do not have an addiction to eating. But I could relate to miscarriage, and I do plan to adopt one day, so that's as far as ...

When Kevin and I found out we were pregnant, we would talk about and daydream about the day that our baby would arrive. We talked about what we would pack in our bag to the hospital, how we would have an infant car seat ready, what we would do to prepare the nursery...None of that happened because nothing happened the way we expected! In fact, the day before she arrived, we had finally decided a day to have the baby shower and maternity photo shoot! Some things you just can't be prepared for... Kevin and I have been blessed with our daughter, Evangeline,  for 10 whole days (outside of the womb!) She was born at 26 weeks gestation. Ideally, a baby stays inside the womb for about 40 weeks, so she was born premature and in the last week of our second trimester. Her birthday was July 23, 2014 at 7:11 pm at Long Beach Memorial. She is the biggest blessing of our lives and we praise God for her being alive and stablizing in the NICU! So here's the story of the day she was born......

Kev and I are finally moved in to our new place! This is a really exciting time for the both of us because it's the first time in our marriage where we get to live on our own, with just the two of us (I don't count our two dogs hehe). This will obviously be short-lived, since a baby will be taking up all our attention in about 3 months (how exciting is that?!) I'm trying my best to spend as much time with Kev before the baby comes. I'm actually at The Masters College in a separate room while Kevin is in class. I'm really thankful for this time since I stopped working and get to be with him. Almost every morning I drop him off at work and then pick him up after, and depending on his schedule, two or three nights of the week are spent driving to Santa Clarita to attend one of his classes at TMC. God willing, he will graduate in a year. If he keeps on going at the pace he's going, he will graduate by next summer. That means that it took him 4 years to get a Bachelo...

Praise the Lord! Today we received our keys to our new house...Well, technically we don't own the house. We probably won't even own a house until we are way older. We are renting a new house, and the lease ends in 3 years so it will be our home for a while! The way we even got chosen to be the tenants of this home was God's blessing upon us as well. We had someone really help us out and he was very beneficial on our behalf. I'm so excited to move into this new place because it will be our first "home home." We are already blessed to be living in the house that we live in (it belongs to Kev's parents) because this house is super huge and beautiful. But it never really felt like our home. We came into the house and everything was already decorated. We weren't living by ourselves as a married couple. Kevin grew up in this house as a teenager. This is the same house I'd visit Kev in as a 15 year-old. We used to dance on the streets as teenagers and r...

My doctor called me two days ago to discuss the results from the special 20 week anatomical ultrasound (which examines the baby's body parts close-up, specifically to determine if there's a birth defect or a possibility of Down's syndrome).  As I type this, I am currently 24 weeks pregnant. The fact that she called at 6pm on a weekday was a little bit alarming, because that means something was up. She told me, "The baby is ok, but your placenta is very low. It is right next to your cervix, which means we cannot do any pelvic exams or physicals. If you ever have to go to the ER in the next few weeks, let them know your doctor said nothing is allowed inside of you. Also, we need to reschedule another anatomical ultrasound so we can see if the placenta has moved away from the cervix. Otherwise, if it places itself over your cervix, you may develop placenta previa, and we will take it from there." I remember learning about placenta previa when I was in my LVN progra...

When I first started this blog, I wrote about the highlights of our wedding day. That was a little over two years ago. And now, here I am, about to write about one of the most monumental days in our lives: On Valentines Day 2014, Kevin and I found out we were PREGNANT! I still can't believe it. I really can't. I am now ending off my 13th week of pregnancy, and am technically in the second trimester zone. Because of my PCOS, because of all the blood tests, two of my past OBGYN's told me to that I wouldn't be able to conceive naturally. Honestly, there is something very soul-crushing about being told you are not able to do what every woman should be able to do. I have never prayed so hard in my life...there wasn't a day for the past two years that I didn't pray fervently for the ability to one day bear a child naturally. Well, I can say I prayed for something else harder than that, and that was for my to-be husband. I prayed for my husband since I was 19, the ...