have another baby

It seems like everyone is getting pregnant but me….

yey I’m pregnant, 7 weeks had an early scan and it’s there heartbeat and all. Must have conceived at a music festival, dates fit – all that fresh air, chilling out and general good stuff finally did it. Feeling all excited.

trying to wait til january, however. ugh.

Yes, I wish I was at least pregnant already. However, I see the importance of losing my 30 pounds first. I did really well with weight gain and loss after my daughter. Anyway, I think that siblings are important and I love being a mom. Even now that she’s two and won’t do anything I ask.

I will be 41 weeks pregnant tomorrow!! I just want this kid out….NOW NOW NOW!!!!!

:o(

Here are some snapshots from last night; Shawn is two days old in these.

Shawn snoozing on the bed

Close up, so peaceful.

Groggy, half awake.

and…

back asleep

My last pregnancy photos. Tommy snapped these the day before Shawn was born – his due date, May 24th.

From the side

and

from the front.

Shawn Charlton W. was born last night, Monday May 25th 2009, at 9:15 pm.

It’ll be a long and exciting birth story when I get to share it (my mom rated it as “very dramatic!” as far as birth stories go) but I unfortunately don’t have the time to type it all out right now.

I’ll have photos soon enough too for anyone interested.

Be back as soon as I can. Thanks in advance for any well wishes. (:

I had my IUC removed today and figured out when we want to concieve. I’m so excited, I’ve been completely baby crazy for months! I just cant wait!!!!

The waiting is getting kind of hard… Even Tommy said to me the other night “ANY sign as to when that kid is going to make an appearance??”

Nope… just lots of braxton hicks and a kicking little child who has been head down for months already… Could be tomorrow, could be next week, could be into June. Clearly this baby wanted to be a Gemini and NOT a Taurus, so you can be born any time now, child!

On the other hand… these are the last few days of this amazing and sacred state for me… I’m cherishing this. It will probably be years before I can feel a little one moving around inside again. I’m not uncomfortable – I’M STILL NOT WADDLING! lol – and s/he’s not even “overdue” yet, so it’s just impatience on our part. With Gabriel I started obsessively “nesting” (frantically cleaning the house and trying to make sure everything was ready) and I could hardly sleep two weeks before he was born. Not so with this one… yet, anyway, lol!

My mom is kind of being stupid, saying the baby can only be born between _ and time, during and _ days so she can be home to sleep and doesn’t have to be up at inconvenient times through the night. Well, she can just stay home then, can’t she.

This is just the perfect time to work on a few other things I won’t be able to accomplish so easily when s/he is here.

Gabriel and I watched birth videos on youtube yesterday, and he really enjoyed seeing the baby born. I’d say “there is the head… do you see it? That’s the baby’s head and look! look! That’s the shoulders, look at the baby! The baby is born! We’re going to have one of those!”

His whole face was just radiant and awestruck. Regardless… Tommy is bringing his laptop and a couple of dvds that Gabe can watch if he gets bored. :P

And we still don’t have a name picked out! For a girl, we have a first and middle name, no changes, no doubts. But for a boy, we have a concrete middle name, but we’re unsure of the first name. We have two picks and we’ve flip flopped this whole time. We had picked out one in the beginning, and then changed it in January… and now we still aren’t sure! We agreed if it is a boy we’d wait to see him to name him. So come out so we can name you, kiddo!

I’m officially pregnant with baby #2!! Now just hoping for a healthy pregnancy! YAY!