Surprise! We're expecting...again! And actually, this mama is already just about due with baby #2. If you remember back in November when I posted about picking this blog back up again, this was one of the main reasons why! I have actually had my first pregnancy #2 post sitting here in my drafts all written up and almost ready to post all this time. And then life and pregnancy #2 got a little...lets just say, crazy. But all along, I've been referring back to this page to refresh my mind and compare the two pregnancies. Now at the end, I'm kicking myself that I didn't keep up a weekly blog for this pregnancy all along. I don't want to regret not documenting it at all, so I figured while I sit here trying to relax and enjoy what will probably be my last week of this pregnancy, I'm just going to do it while it's still all pretty fresh in my pretty well rested mind. Granted, this will be a bit more of a condensed version; but nonetheless, here we go!
((This portion of the post was written back in December by a still newly pregnant me))
So fast forward one kid later and I'm getting a little closer to being one of those woman who magically just 'knew' she was pregnant. There was no instinctive 'gut' feeling this time around, but the signs were certainly there. Yet still, on Halloween afternoon 2017 as I stared at those two pink lines on a stick, I was in utter shock. And as much as I would like to say my other emotion in that moment was delight...it was more like terror. Even though it was Halloween, the test line forming faster and darker than the control line on my First Response was telling me this was no trick! I just wasn't sure yet if it was a treat either. Surprise! We're expecting...again!
Rewind a few days back to Thursday, October 26th. Mason and I were visiting my parents at their house when (what I thought) was Auntie Flow decided to show. Greg and I were on our second month of trying for baby #2. My period was expected that exact day, so when I saw a bit of blood, I sent Greg a "just so you know...we will try again next month" text. (Minus the bleeding...any of this sounding strangely similar to a 'finding out we're expecting' story from just about three years ago?)
And so, for the next few days life just carried on as usual; except that my period never did end up carrying on as usual. As the weekend went on I started realizing that it had never gotten heavy as it normally would have within the first few days of starting. By Monday, it was down to extremely minimal brown spotting. While I sat eating breakfast with Mason, the thought suddenly dawned on me..."Could that have been implantation bleeding?...Am I actually pregnant?" So I did as all "millennial" moms would do and took to the internet to research. Everything I read sounded just like what I experienced. So I resolved that the next day, if no true period showed up, I would take a test.
Tuesday morning (Halloween day) I woke up with tingly arms and in that moment, I KNEW that had to be it. This was a symptom I had during my pregnancy with Mason, albeit later on in the pregnancy, but it was an unmistakable feeling I didn't forget. If only I had a pregnancy test on hand. I did not, so I rushed us through our normal morning routine and headed to Target as soon as I possibly could. Sure enough when I got home and took the test it was an immediate positive. Although any signs of bleeding were completely gone at this point, knowing any blood came along with a positive pregnancy test is certainly an uneasy feeling. I called Greg who was still at work at the time and told him right away. Poor guy...he never gets an exciting reveal (but it's kind of fun anyways that we apparently find out we are expecting on major holidays!) Needless to say, he was absolutely thrilled! He had been wanting this for quite some time now. At this point all I could feel was concern. I called my doctor's office immediately after my call to Greg, and they quickly reassured me that as long as I saw no other signs of bleeding, it was most likely just an implantation bleed and they would see me in 10 days for my first prenatal appointment.
Fast forward again to today. I am officially 10 weeks, 3 days pregnant with baby #2! And welcome back to Breakfast at Emily's, where I will be chronicling my journey through pregnancy #2, motherhood and more! This time around, I actually CAN believe I am 2.5 months along already. In fact, I already feel like I've been pregnant forever. The first trimester has been a bit of a rough road this time around. But I am happy that the news is finally out to all of our family & close friends and the end of this first trimester is in sight.
((From this point, I had gone on to answering the same rundown of questions I used for each week of my pregnancy journey with Mason, but I only got about halfway through and never finished the post.))
Looking back now, I feel like I had skipped over a large part of the first trimester story, so I decided to end this post here and pick back up with an official first trimester recap post tomorrow. But I had to sort of laugh at this snippet as it reminded me that this baby has given us a run for our money from day one. Tune in tomorrow to hear about all the trimester one fun!
