que sera sera

My first trimester was worse in some ways this time.  I threw up a lot more, but I was also able to eat more, and I didn't lose any weight that I'm aware of....I wasn't big on scaling myself. The exhaustion was more intense since I had a toddler to keep up with though.  My fears were there,but only because I kept having random spotting for a few weeks.  I knew deep down though that God had a plan for our family. My first visit with Robin was December 7.  (She came to our house for everything, I thought that was so amazing.). I was around 10 weeks at the time, according to my menses.  My fundal height at that appointment was 12 cm, so we kind of thought maybe I was a week or two ahead, not only because of that, but my cycle had been irregular since May.  I also assumed it could be because it was my second pregnancy. I think once I got into the second trimester I was totally expecting to feel on cloud 9 physically, but it didn't happen.  I continued ...

So, I mentioned blogging about the birth of our surprise twins, but I feel like the story needs prefaced with a little history about my first birth.  The twin's birth story will be split into different posts, because of time restraints😆. My first pregnancy with Gideon was pretty text book.  First trimester came complete with morning sickness, nausea, blacking out, weight loss, fear of loss, and exhaustion.  Once we hit about 13-14 weeks, we were pretty golden.  I was still tired and some days still had those doubts creep in, but I felt so over the moon that any discomfort was overshadowed.  We found out we were having a boy around 22 weeks and although I struggled with the idea of a boy at first, it only took a couple days until I felt completely ready to meet our little guy.  The weeks came & went and the hustle and bustle of end of school year activities kept Marc & I constantly on the go. It was his first year to write & produce an opera, a...