Prayers for a Friend - 8.15.13

One of my dear friends had her 8 week pregnancy appointment today and sadly found out via ultrasound that the baby stopped thriving around 5 weeks gestation. She is hoping her body will take care of this naturally. Lifting her up in my prayers. My heart hurts for her and her family. :-(

Pregnancy is so scary. There are so many unknowns. My friend has a strong faith and good attitude about it. She believes, just as I do, that everything really does happen for a reason.

I try to remain optimistic and feel that I'm much less stressed about this pregnancy than I was with AG. Likely because my pregnancy with AG was following a miscarriage, so I was on high alert. But I do have some not-so-positive thoughts about this pregnancy that creep into my mind and I pray daily that I have a healthy pregnancy and healthy baby. This is in God's hands. This is His doing. His creation. I am blessed to carry a baby in His name. Thank you Lord.

One Week Later - 8.15.13

One week later since a positive pregnancy test.

Still not many symptoms. Maybe some mild morning sickness. And I mean mild.

Still no period. Officially 4 days late.

Called to go ahead and schedule an 8 week appt. with the midwifery group that my OB practice started right at the end of my pregnancy with Aubrey. I figure we could go down that route with this pregnancy. They've changed things up a bit though since my pregnancy with Aubrey. Now they bring you in prior to the 8 week appt. for a pregnancy confirmation appt and they go over insurance and pregnancy prep stuff. So I scheduled that for next Wednesday.

I tell myself daily "holy crap, you're pregnant". Gonna be a fun ride!

An Orange Seed - 8.12.13

Still so early in the pregnancy but I'm 4 weeks along. Don't have any pregnancy symptoms I don't think. Baby is the size of an orange seed.

Girls weekend was great! We had a small group (9 of us) and I drank odouls all weekend. Someone who's the party starter and not drinking will always raise some questions, so I informed my besties that I had in fact, taken a pregnancy test and that thing came up positive. What is funny is that 3 of our friends announced their pregnancy in the last 2 weeks and another friend announced over the weekend. We will have 2 new babies in our group come February, 2 in March and 1 (mine) in April. 5 pregnant friends!! What's even more funny is that the other 2 friends I was pregnant with when I was carrying Aubrey was Kory and Kristina and they are the 2 due in March! I informed the rest of our girls weekend crew via email but asked to keep it off of Facebook. Our parents don't even know!

Hope to come up with a fun way to tell them. I did go ahead and buy AG a "big sister" shirt. But it's a 3T. Lol. Gonna be a little large. Maybe she can wear it as a dress with a cute little belt!

Pictures...a few of my faves - 1 year, 8 months old

History Just May Be Repeating Itself - 8.1.13

Back in 2011, I had a trip planned to Charlotte to visit with friends and drinking was going to be involved. Steve and I had suffered a miscarriage the November prior and had been trying to get pregnant again for 3 months. I wasn't having any pregnancy symptoms and I wasn't "late" yet, but just to be safe, I decided to take a pregnancy test. I would have hated to have found out I was pregnant after a weekend of drinking. Well, long story short, the test result was positive. And now we have a beautiful baby girl who is almost 2!!

Fast forward to today. I leave tomorrow for my semi-annual girls weekend and of course there will be drinking involved. How many people take pregnancy tests revolved around drinking? Anyway, Steve and I weren't exactly careful the last month and so to be safe (again), I decided to take a test. Steve ran out to buy one, along with some ice cream and I took the test this morning. FULLY EXPECTING the test to come back negative, I peed on the stick. 

To my surprise, that darn thing starting displaying a cross sign for positive. Well I'll be damned. Monday will mark me officially being "late". I will refrain from alcohol this weekend with the girls. 

I'll call the doc next week for an appt in a month or so. Pretty exciting and crazy all at the same time! AG is gonna be a BIG SISTER!

Now...what's a fun way to tell the parents and then friends and family?

Some Recent Pictures

You're going to be 18 mo. tomorrow and I can hardly believe it! Here are some recent pics.