We're Pregnant!

Surprised? We were! Yes, it was planned, as in not doing anything to prevent it. However, we didn’t expect it to happen the first time around again. Anyways, we’re thrilled. We feel so blessed and are truly thankful that we have been able to conceive so easily and that the first trimester has been smooth and without worry. We know that this is nothing to take for granted. We give God all the glory!

We’re due October 18 (or somewhere around there), making me 13 weeks along and into my second trimester. Sarah and baby number two will be just 18 months apart. I’m still in a bit of shock that we’ll have two kids by Halloween.

We found out Feb 29 when I was already 7 weeks along. A few weeks prior I was at the doctor’s office for Sarah’s check up. The nurse was asking me about how I was doing and I told her fine, just that I was a few days late but didn’t think anything of it since my body was still adjusting after finishing weaning in January. She asked me if I would take a pregnancy test just to be sure. So I did, and it came back negative. No problem, we weren’t at all disappointed as we hadn’t even started trying. The plan was to ‘see what happened’ and trust in God’s timing. My only disappointment with the negative test was that I knew I would probably get my period on our cruise. The cruise came and went and still nothing. I wasn’t sipping any wine and had been taking postnatal/prenatal vitamins for many months just in case and to prepare my body. After a couple weeks had passed we figured we should probably re-test. The test was positive! We’re happy to be having an October baby; especially with our anniversary in November and my birthday in December, not to mention Christmas and many other birthdays in December.

I’ve been feeling pretty good, similar to my pregnancy with Sarah. The most notable difference is that I’ve felt more tired and have experienced being more nauseous, especially in the evenings. So I’ve enjoyed several afternoon naps while Sarah has slept. We don’t plan on finding out the gender of the baby until he/she enters the world. Yesterday we heard the baby’s heart beat for the first time. I love how that seems to make it so much more real. The baby had a heart beat of 174. It was kind of funny since our doctor said that he figured we were probably having a girl since that’s well above what a heartbeat of a boy usually is at this point. We thought it was odd that he would even mention this. We’ll be having the baby in Niagara Falls, we figured this looked better on the birth certificate than St. Catharine’s. We also live pretty much right in between so distance wise it makes no difference.

Other than that, life has continued on as usual. The hardest thing has been keeping it secret; however it does make it a little easier being out here and not seeing people face to face. We wanted to be able to tell my mom in person when she came to visit. Sarah was wearing the shirt in the picture when we picked my mom up from the airport. It still took her awhile to figure it out though. She thought the shirt was a hand me down since Sarah wasn’t actually a big sister. It was pretty funny.

Please keep our little family in your prayers. David is now in exam time and is looking forward to the semester being fully finished. We’re all looking forward to summer and going to BC for Michael and Rebecca’s wedding. It’s hard to believe that I’ll be 5.5 months pregnant at the wedding!