This pregnancy was not exactly planned but we are still happy about it. We found out the day before we left for my cousin's wedding in Peterborough in September. I guessed because I had stopped losing weight after a nice, steady decline after canning the bad eating habits and not drinking (and with that, not smoking when I drank). I peed on a stick one day when Nick was out walking the dog with Lily. As he rolled up the street with our family I was standing on the driveway shrieking, "How could you do this to meeeeeeeee?" The joke of late has been that Nick is getting his own room and that we are going to use kryptonite condoms...and that my next husband is going to be ugly so that this won't happen again. Har har.
Still, we had planned to start trying again in January so 6 months really isn't going to make or break us. It just sucks because we have a wedding every month until January -- including our ALL-INCLUSIVE trip we leave on tomorrow that I will spend completely sober. Ah well, thems the breaks as they say. In return I hope for a happy, health wee Sprout.
So for those of you who are interested in this sort of thing our ultrasound this morning determined a fetal heart rate of 148 bpm, a length of 6cm and a nuchal transparency test result of 1.5 cms which is NORMAL, thank goodness (I cheated and wrote this down from the form, they didn't tell me as I have to wait for the official result). Sprout is due on May 26 but the original Sprout (Ms.
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judithiscariot) is hoping for May 18th as it is her birthday.Lily will be 2 years and 2 months old when Sprout is born making it a lot closer together than I originally wished. However, I grew so big so fast I was terrified it was twins, so thank goodness for small miracles.
So that is our news! If I don't get to post about the AWESOME day I am having with Ms. Lily-beaner, soon to be a big sister!
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