I have two children, a daughter who is 6 and a son who 4, but soon to be 5 on May 13th. They are 18 months apart. I also have 3 stepkids who do not live with us but come over every second weekend.
Both of my children were born via C-section. During the pregnancy of my son, I contemplated having my tubes tied while they were doing the C-section for the delivery of him. I was 33 at that time and my gynecologist said "what if something happened to this child, and you wanted two children?" Fair enough. It truly made me think so I didn't proceed with procedure.
When my son was born, we made the decision that this would be our last child. I probably would have had one more but with 3 stepkids we have enough children around.
In the past year OH and I have been getting out more and it has been nice. I was also somewhat looking forward to the school year beginning 2009 as my son would then be in school all day because he would be in Grade 1.
Well, in January 2008, everything changed. One morning, January 14th I woke up feeling extremely hungry. Now it is unlike me to feel hungry in the morning and I usually don't eat until suppertime. So, my signals were "hmm, I think I am pregnant." Also, my period had not arrived.
I told Dan that morning that I was going to the pharmacy to get a home pregnancy test. He said he had been wondering if I was due to my period not arriving.
Well, I went and got my test, brought it home and a big fat POSITIVE. I was in shock. I told Dan and he wasn't very happy and truly, nor was I. He asked me what options we had and there was only a few.
That afternoon I searched and read stories about abortion. I already knew that I could never go through with one as I am against them.
Well, that evening I talked to Dan and this is what I said:
I couldn't go through with an abortion, I am against it. I could possibly see a teenager having one but at 38 we should know better. I don't want to have a regret for the rest of my life, and, besides this baby is a part of you and I.
Since then, we've both been quite happy and excited. I will be going on 39 in a few weeks and I never thought I'd become a mother at this age. I look at this as a blessing and I've tried to enjoy this pregnancy as much as possible as this will be my very last time that I will be pregnant in my life.
I should enjoy my pregnancies as I've never had morning sickness or any cravings in any one of them.
Dan has been wonderful and he's actually grown up a lot since my last pregnancies. He has more of an understanding of a pregnant woman.
I was so adamant that this baby was a girl. I was so correct with the gender of my first two children and I thought Mother's Instinct would not fail me this time.
Well, during the scan the sonographer said "Here's the pee pee and here's the balls." What a shock. But I wasn't disappointed as I have one of each already and this third baby is a blessing.
Also, just over my 15th week, I started to feel baby moving. And it's been an active one every day since.
Posted this in another thread but thought it should be here too.
My OH was taking care of a crew and teaching them what to do so I got there beforehand. First of all, they handed me something to read and I couldn't f&&cking believe that they charge for the scan photos now. I didn't have any cash because that's all they took and I didn't know for sure if OH was going to make it.
Pictures used to be free. WTF is going on in Canada!
Ok, so it's my son and I and he was being so good. I laid on the bed and the screen was pointed towards the sonographer so I could not see. Twenty minutes later he tells me to go pee and come back in so he could take more pics. Still, the screen was not in my direction when I came back in. I guess the baby wasn't in the right position so he had me waiting in the waiting room for 15 minutes so that baby might move.
OH showed up in this 15 minute period of time. Thank goodness he brought some cash like I told him.
Anyhow, after the 15 minutes I was told to come back in but OH and son had to stay in the waiting room so that the sonographer could take a few more pics. The screen was still not pointing in my direction.
5 minutes later he called in my OH and son and he finally pointed the screen towards us. We got to see the baby for 2 minutes, if that.
And for f**cking $10 for a total of four pics, they were printed on normal 8 x 10 printing paper, not like it used to be on the photography paper. And only 1 picture was really ok.
Truly, not happy.
So happy that I've gone in for one 3D scan and will be going for another.
I feel so badly for those moms that are not told beforehand to bring money for the pics, for those that come in for the one time only scan at 20 weeks and they only get to see 2 minutes if that of their baby.
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