Kevin and I knew that as soon as we were safely able to try to have another baby that we would be ready. When I had gone in to my OBGYN for my 6 week follow up, I told her that we definitely wanted more children and I was ready whenever she said it was safe.
If she had told me to wait a year or more for safety reasons, I would have. I wasn't sure what the timeline was going to be since I had a C-Section at 24 weeks and I didn't know how much time my scar needed to heal. I needed to do everything that I could to ensure that our next child can make it full term. I could not risk having a Uterine rupture because if that happened, we would be completely done having children.
My doctor said that she didn't want to do a second c-section on me until a year had passed. That meant that if the baby's due date was anywhere from January 2015 or after, we would be ok which would put starting to try again in May/June.
So it was early May and I had been feeling extremely tired and extra hungry. I thought to myself that I might be pregnant but that would be extremely too easy, right? It took us an entire year to get pregnant with Colin and Nathan. So on Mother's Day, I ended up taking a pregnancy test. I thought that would be so cool to find out on my 1st Mother's Day that I was pregnant again. Well, it was False. I was not pregnant. I wasn't even due to start my period until that next weekend so I didn't think much of it.
I didn't tell Kevin that I thought I was pregnant in the first place and now that I wasn't, it didn't matter anyway. So the next weekend I was going down to the suburbs of Cincinnati with my friend Nikki. I was going to be a bridesmaid in her wedding and we were going down with all her other bridesmaids to pick out Bridesmaids dresses.
This time around, I was not keeping the fact that we were trying to get pregnant a secret. Pretty much everyone knew. So at the dress shop, I even told the employees that I was trying to get pregnant so to advice me on a size that would be good if I were 4-5 months pregnant. They thought I should still go with my normal size because of the way the dress fit anyway. I had to trust their professional opinion.
But all day long I was just waiting for my period to start. But Saturday and Sunday brought no period. Finally on Monday when I got home from work, I decided to take another pregnancy test. I really just wanted to find out if I really was pregnant or if I could expect my period sometime soon. And what do you know....I'M PREGNANT!!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Kevin and I hadn't 'officially' started trying yet. I was completely prepared to take ovulation tests and go through it every month like we did last time. But NOPE! Colin and Nathan wanted a little brother or sister NOW!
I was so excited. I was more than excited...I was ecstatic. Kevin was going to be home soon but then he was going to go straight to play hockey so I know I only had a short window to tell him. I was upstairs lying in bed watching TV when he came home. He got upstairs and started talking about something that happened at work. He kept talking and talking while he switched out of his work clothes into Jeans and a t-shirt. Finally, after his long story, he said, "So how was your day?" I pulled out the pregnancy test and told him that he was going to be a dad again. We immediately called his dad and my parents to tell them. They were all so happy and a little bit shocked that it happened this fast. That makes 5 of us!
But Kevin and I were going to get the chance to be parents again and we couldn't be more thrilled. And the due date of this baby is January 17, 2015 which is completely safe according to my doctor.
Bring on Baby #3!
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