We just found out you existed a few days ago. It still seems unreal! So unreal in fact, I took 6 home pregnancy tests within 3 or 4 days because I just couldn't believe it! Granted we planned to have you and knew in the past I got pregnant right away, so we figured you would come along within the first month, which is why I wanted to plan your birthdate 😊 You will be born sometime in the end of April or beginning of May! I'm kind of hoping it's the beginning of May because we have a lot of end-of-April birthdays in the family already. Plus, how cool would it be to have your birthday on May 4th since we had already planned to have your nursery a Star Wars theme?? Coolest baby ever.
For the first couple days (especially the first day) of finding out you were coming, Daddy was in a pretty grumpy mood. But don't worry, he was pretty grumpy when finding out your brothers would be born too. With your brothers, I surprised him in finding out I was pregnant. This time he "forced" me to tell him before I was taking a test, so sadly I wasn't allowed to come up with a fun way to tell him he was going to be a daddy again. But to make up for it, I was just extra annoying and obnoxious toward him all day while he was in denial. It was definitely a plan that sufficed :)
We told our families pretty much right away that you were coming, but we won't tell anyone else for at least another 6 weeks or so. Family was of course so excited to have another baby coming! Your Aunt Karynn will be having a little baby sometime in January too, so you will have a cousin just a couple months older than you! We haven't told your big brothers yet. They don't know how to keep secrets :) But we have been talking about having a baby brother or sister with them for a few months now. If they had a choice they would chose a sister, and Trenton would name you Seekapoo. Clearly he is not choosing the name :)
So far things have been going well in the few days since finding out about you. I have been getting some pretty sharp pains in my side, but nothing too out of the ordinary. With Tucker, the round ligament pain was so bad I had to wear a support belt the last half of my pregnancy. I'm hoping I won't have to do that this time around. The pain prevented me from doing ANY exercise...! Not like I do much now, but I know I need to :)
We are so excited for you to be here. There are 3 other babies that will be born at Boys Town within 6-8 months of you, so it'll be great to have friends your age!
This first week has been going by so slow! I have been doing a lot of research on where I want to have you born. Here in Nebraska, you cannot have a midwife assist you at a home birth. It is a felony for the midwife if she is caught. There are "underground" midwives, and I luckily did find one thanks to my contacts in the midwifery world! But with my history of bleeding so much and passing out at my previous births, we decided it probably isn't best to attempt a homebirth. I truly hope some of the laws change by the time you have kids. Nebraska lawmakers suck. Also in Omaha, the pediatricians have pushed all of the hospitals to not allow full water births. You can labor in the water, but cannot birth. So that was another huge downfall of what I really wanted. The third unfortunate event is that the only birthing center in Omaha that allowed full water births closed! I was devastated to find that out. However, after some more extensive research, I did find that a brand new birthing center just opened last month in Lincoln! I do have to travel almost an hour to get to the center however, so that is not ideal. But I will get to have a water birth like I wanted and not in a hospital, which is also what I wanted. I have my first appointment with the midwives in Lincoln in about 4 weeks and I have my first ultrasound to see exactly how far along you are in about 3 weeks. Thankfully, being at Boys Town, I can have all of my blood work and ultrasounds done for free at the clinic :) I think that is why this week has been going by so slow, just waiting until the first ultrasound and appointment, and then waiting until we are ready to tell our boss and everyone else that you will be arriving.
Your daddy and I have talked about names a bit already. It helped I still had my list of names from your brothers on my phone. We are so excited to meet you, little baby. I pray that you will be a healthy, happy little child. You will make our family officially complete :)
I love you sweet baby,
Mommy
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