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April 26, 2003
April 26, 2003
Collin is 21 months old
I’m 5 weeks 1 day pg
First off, thank you so much to everyone that posted such nice words and messages on my TTM board regarding our fantastic news of our second pregnancy. We are thrilled and beyond excited. Words just cannot describe the way I’m feeling right now or the emotions that are running through my mind. I'm not only feeling so incredibly blessed that we’ve been giving another chance to grow, birth and raise another beautiful angel, but I’m also so excited that Collin gets to be a big brother. I’m an only child and I never had any siblings to grow up with so this is something I’m happy we can give Collin and to this new baby. I’m excited to be a family of four and start our own holiday traditions and family vacations. Not that we couldn’t do all this with only having Collin, but it just seems to feel more “family-like,” if that makes any sense. Collin is at the age where he loves babies and loves having someone to play with so I’m extremely excited to give him a little brother or sister. He’ll be just about 2 1/2 when the baby is born and I think that’s a perfect age. He’ll be plenty more self sufficient, he and the baby will be close enough in age to share certain things in common, yet far enough in age where they won’t be competing for the same things (except 100% of my attention, of course!). Having Collin has brought such joy, laughter, love and blessings into our lives; I just can’t imagine how wonderful it’s going to be to have TWO children. Double the kisses, the hugs, the giggles and laughter. Double the joy of being parents. I’m sure there will be days where we also get our dose of double fits, tantrums, screams, cries and sicknesses, but the good outweighs the “bad” by so much it’s not even comparable. Thank you God, what a true blessing you have given us.
To digress a little, I really didn’t think I was pg this month. Mark had wanted to start trying way back in January but I just felt it wasn’t time for me yet. I had just started going back to the gym; I was thinking that maybe mid summer we would start “seriously” trying. Well, as I always say, “God’s timing is perfect!” Friday, April 18 I was looking at the calendar and noticing that my period was due that day. I had had some mild cramping for the last two days so I just figured that’s what was happening. I guess in the back of my head (way back!) I thought that it was a possibility but it didn’t really dawn on me until that day. I then remembered that the week before I had the telltale signs of that sharp stretching ache I get when I stand up too fast. This is the exact pain I got when PG with Collin (before I knew). Since I’ve already gone through this once before, I started realizing that the possibility of me being pg was pretty real. That, along with having NO OTHER signs of my period, really made me start to wonder. It was then that I started getting excited. Then I was curious if maybe I was just jumping the gun and maybe my period was late due to the amount of time I had been spending at the gym exercising. Since my niece and nephew were staying over that night, it was impossible for me to run out and get a test. I decided to do it in the morning when I had errands to run. Saturday, April 19, the day before Easter, and 1 day late, I was out of the house most of the day because I had a zillion things to do. I ran to the store, picked up a double test and ran home. I quickly ran into the bathroom and started unwrapping the test. Collin was beating on the door yelling to get in and I was trying to convince him that I needed some privacy. It was pretty comical actually. I followed the testing directions, which said to wait 5 whole minutes. Wham! That second beautiful pink line showed up in 26 seconds. Yes, I counted the seconds. I was pregnant! My mouth was wide open when I looked at myself in the mirror and just like when I found out with Collin, I just kept saying to myself, “I’m pregnant!” I was so happy and so excited. I knew that with the next day being Easter I wanted to wait and tell Mark then. How perfect would that be?! I had some more errands to run so I quickly got out of the house (less chance to spill the beans!). I didn’t tell a soul and felt I had a permanent grin across my face. It was the neatest thing to have this wonderful little secret all to myself. It felt like I had the best little wrapped gift and only I knew about it. Later on that day, I did tell two people – the dog and Collin. I knew my little secret would stay safe with them. Ha ha! That night I wrapped up the two tests (of course I took two!) in blue paper and tied lots of pink curly ribbon around it. The next morning, Easter, I had Collin give daddy his “present.” I told Mark it was a special treat. He thought it was going to be candy so he was trying to figure out what kind of chocolate was wrapped up like that. He even smelled the wrapping, which I got a huge giggle out of. I said, “You might not want to be doing that!” While he was unwrapping the tests, my heart was beating a thousand miles a minute. I was on the verge of tears and I was so nervous. Once Mark saw the tests, he stopped, smiled, looked at me and said, “Are you serious?” He unwrapped it some more and had the biggest smile on his face. He was so happy. Then he said something that made us both laugh. He looked at both the tests taped together, looked at me and said, “Not twins, right?” and I said, “No, it’s just two tests taped together.” Then we laughed. As if I’d even know by then anyway. He looked at Collin and said, “Collin you’re going to be a big brother!” We laughed and kissed and talked about how wonderful this was. What a truly awesome Easter surprise.
My due date is December 26th, and I have an appointment on May 19th for my labs. Once I have my labs drawn I’ll have my first OB appointment shortly after that. I’m hoping to finagle an early ultrasound just so I can make sure everything is going good and healthy. My OB isn’t one to give an ultrasound unless it’s REALLY REALLY necessary but we’ll see. I immediately called to get my prenatals filled and have been taking those for a week now. I feel good, just so tired, but no nausea yet. I do feel very bloated and I swear, I’m sporting a nice little pooch already. I’ve heard from several second time moms that you show earlier the second time around. I have a friend who is 6 weeks ahead of me and she’s already in full-blown maternity clothes and has been for two weeks. I’m drinking a ton of water daily and eating really healthy. My breasts are very sore, so much more so than pg with Collin, but with Collin I had a lot more nausea then this time. Maybe it’s just too early, who knows. All in all, I feel great. In fact, yesterday I was thinking that I didn’t feel pregnant “enough” and took two more pregnancy tests. Of course, they both turned up positive again, but I just couldn’t resist. It was neat to watch the second line appear again.
So far we’ve told most of our family and friends, except Mark’s family and his band mates. He wants to tell his band mates tonight during one of their shows. My aunt was the first to find out. Everyone is thrilled to death over this and is very excited. We are waiting to tell Mark’s family until Mother’s Day weekend. That Saturday we are getting together and going out to lunch so we’ll tell them then. It will be fun because I made up a very cute iron on design to put on a white t-shirt of Collin’s. It says, “I’m going to be a big brother. Dec 26, 2003.” It has a picture of a mom, big brother and new baby all cuddling together in the middle. It’s very colorful and it looks so adorable. I’ve already printed out the iron on transfer, now I just have to put it on the T-shirt. We’re going to have Collin wear this on that Saturday and see how long it takes the family to notice. It should be a great day full of celebration.
I have a full update on the soon-to-be big brother but I think this is long enough for now. I’ll post that in a few days. I will add that Collin is talking sentences non-stop now and unless he’s asleep, he’s talking about EVERYTHING and ANYTHING! It’s adorable and he just melts my heart. He’s the sunshine in my life and I love him to pieces!!!
Happy Spring everyone!
Until next time,
Jennifer, Collin and baby #2!
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