Our Journey begins almost one year ago...
We had a plan that John and I had been working through to better our personal financial future and if you have ever really really had to budget you know how stressful that can be. On June 3, our anniversary we had a wonderful day to ourselves and talked about the future and what plans we had for our family. John, coming from a large family, has always wanted to see growth..but it scared me to think about adding another mouth to feed, sports to pay for, school to pay for, etc... All of a sudden, on that day, I decided to let all of my fears go. I told John what I was thinking our "new future plan" should be and of coarse he was so happy that we were going to Add a Third!!!
Two weeks later, Pierce was conceived, and shortly after that it was confirmed. I am going to be honest... I felt guilty. There are SO many women out there that try try try SO hard to get pregnant and it takes them so long or it never happens. Or, they just can't have children at all for various reasons. So, I just had to go with the old "God has a plan" line, which I now believe to be the line of this whole pregnancy!
When I was six weeks pregnant I an incident that put a fear in me like nothing else that I was losing the tiny life inside me. I told a few friends and family about it to get their opinions because they had been through similar situations. Not the way I had planned on breaking the news...but I am learning that I can't plan anything these days despite my best efforts!!
We went on a nice family vacation to Canada where I was able to just relax and pretty much eat ice cream everyday which made me feel much better about life!:) I also started experiencing some bouts of neausea which was a good sign, right!?!?! When we returned, we had our first sonogram..everything was fine..and told the boys the good news!!!! They were so excited they could hardly believe it. John explained to them that mommy was going to need help around the house and to be extra good. Man, they jumped on that one for like A WHOLE DAY!!!
They say no two pregnancies are alike and boy do they mean it. I really thought that it was going to be a girl this time as the hormones flowed it, I was sick sick sick. I got some sicky meds from my Dr. to help. I felt terrible for the boys because I just was not myself and they were having to deal with grumpy, tired, nauseaus mommy. In the second trimester, things calmed down and got a little better.
Because I am an old woman (35) in the pregnancy world, we got to find out early on that we were going to have a Pierce David Drewry. I couldn't believe it was ANOTHER boy, but thrilled!!! I could not wrap my head around changing genders at this point. I'm so used to the rough, stinky, loudness, and sometimes sweetness;) that comes with my boys. So we were thrilled to Add a Third!
I also found out early on that I had Placenta Previa and I was assured not to worry because it was still very early and that in most pregnancies the placenta will move out of the way by the time of baby's arrival. Unfortunatley, mine did not move as "planned."
And...at 28 weeks..the morning before Christmas eve I went to the hospital bleeding. Fortunately for Pierce and I the bleeding stopped but it is common practice to keep a mother in the hospital for monitoring when that happens, sometimes (most of the times) all the way to term. Although I was in the hospital 5 days, including Christmas eve and Christmas day (which felt like a knife to my heart that I was not able to see Christmas with my boys) I was also so thankful to God that Pierce did not have to be delivered at 28 weeks.
And...at 34 weeks (6 days ago) I had a bad bleed which sent me back to the hospital where I will be residing until 37 weeks, or if God decides to Add a Third a little sooner.
