Guess What?!

So I said we had lots to say and boy do we ever!  This past winter in February, I went to the doctor for a check up as Brenton and I thought we were pregnant.  We'd held off on Valentines as we were going to send belated Valentines saying we were going to have a baby... and our story changed.  The first ultrasound showed there was no baby but there was an abnormal growth, what the doctor thought could be a mole... and would mean we had a molar pregnancy.  I was taken in for a D&C quickly as they wanted to look at the make up of the growth.  Thankfully, it was only a miscarriage.

I don't say that to be heartless, but the doctor had braced us for having to monitor my body for a year to make sure there were no other moles or regrowths.  The doctor left out the part that the growths can be cancerous, but if curiosity gets you like it does me, it is "Google" time when you get home for the appointment.  I will say that possibilities of the next year weighed heavily on me the two weeks we waited on surgery and the lab report.  I was in a drug store when they called to tell me it was "just a miscarriage."  It was almost as if the miscarriage part had been forgotten as it was jumbled with all the other news.  I don't know that I really grieved the miscarriage as I was only eight weeks along, I think it would have been hard had we shared with everyone prior to the news.  I will say it felt like life had been handed over to me again once we found out I was cleared.  It was a huge burden released.

I don't share this to make everyone hurt or grieve for us, it is more of an update to further fill you in on our current news.  Brenton and I are expecting!  We will have the little one at the end of December or early January.  Not sure it is true, but I hear 90% of babies are not born on their due date so we are thinking in more broad terms.  Brenton's praying for a December baby for tax purposes and I'm hoping for a New Years baby, only because how cool would that be?!  I'm just into the second trimester and the nausea has calmed down a good deal.  It's still lingering but much more doable.  My current trend has been a date with the toilet on Friday nights.  Poor Brenton, our dates have been much less adventurous lately.  However that is a blessing, as it is much less frequent than when the toilet dates started!  In short, we wanted to fill everyone in on the details of our lives and that we are very excited!  Oh and we just heard the heart beat for the first time this past week.  The baby is a mover... guess we have another little soccer player on our hands!