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Steve and I decided to try for another baby last fall and when it didn’t happen, we decided that that was the absolute best thing for us. We proceeded to plan our lives as a family of 4, and we made plans for our first big vacation, a cruise to Alaska.
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So, you can imagine my surprise when last week Steve mentioned my period was late. I asked him how he could know this and he responded with “You always have a period around the full moon.” I responded with such love for my husband, how cute that he knew that!! Then I quickly told him that sometimes I am a couple days past the full moon and dismissed it.
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At yoga the next day I told my friend Kate how crazy he was to think that, however in the back of my head I was starting to wonder. So, on Tuesday morning of this week when I had a little bit of alone time, I decided to count the days of my cycle. In the past year my longest cycle was 34 days. I was on day 37 of my cycle. SHIT.
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Steve was at a class with Apollo and I was freaking out. I was supposed to go to a yoga class in ½ an hour and I didn’t know what to do or think. Was I just over reacting? My body was probably just adjusting to doing hot yoga every single day, right?
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I emailed Kate in a frenzy and told her the situation and asked for her guidance. She told me to breathe, go to yoga and do a test when I get home. So that was the plan.
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Yoga was a fantastic distraction, I was so happy to be there. Later, when I was home and Steve and I had gotten a test I went in to pee on the stick. Steve and I had both convinced ourselves that this was just my body adjusting and there was no way we were pregnant.
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After peeing on the stick, I set it aside and vowed not to look for at least 3 min. Once the 3 minutes were up, I looked over quickly at the stick knowing that I would see only one line. You can imagine my surprise when 2 lines were there, clear as day.
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I went out to tell Steve, who was doing the dishes. I told him we were pregnant and he just laughed and said “Yeah?”. He thought I was making a joke… I told him again and held up the test. Then I started crying. He hugged me and said he was sorry.. This made me laugh, why was he sorry?! He just didn’t like me crying. He asked if I was happy or sad about the news. I said neither yet, that I was in complete shock.
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Since Tuesday we have let the news sink in more and more. We are very excited and very blessed. I was scared about how Ella would react and she couldn’t have been any happier. We had to cancel our cruise to Alaska, because they don’t let women on board who are 24 weeks or further, I was going to be around 31 weeks at the time of the cruise. But that’s ok, I will take baby over a cruise. I know I am blessed.
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In just a few minutes our lives changed drastically. We will now be the parents of 3. We don’t have room in our home. Apollo isn’t even 2 yet. But it will all work out, we are so happy this baby chose us, the details will fall into place later.
