40 Weeks is a Long Time to Wait

In my last post I wrote about when my battery died and Brigham was sick and a sweet lady named Georgia allowed us to stay in her home while roadside assistance came to jump my battery, well that morning Mark and I also found out that baby #2 was on the way! We were so excited to get the news we were hoping for. I told my sister and my friend Melanie but no one else. We were waiting for Melanie and Scarlett to get back from visiting Annie and Art in Texas so we could tell the family all at once so we had to keep our secret for 2 weeks. By the time they got back, we decided that we would just keep the whole pregnancy a secret until we found out the sex of the baby and just spring the news on everyone all at once. With Brigham I was 17 weeks and 1 day when we got the ultrasound. That would put us at October 24th for this baby. I was determined to get the ultrasound by then. I ended up not even getting to the doctor until I was 15 (almost 16) weeks. I was still hopeful to get back in for the ultrasound 10 days later. They ended up scheduling me for some date in November. Once I got home I called back and just told them I needed to reschedule for the week of October 24th. Lucky for me they had an opening for the 24th! By this point Mark and I were going crazy keeping this secret. It had become hard to hide my growing belly and people were becoming very suspicious about a baby being on the way. Lots of people were either asking me if I was pregnant or they were asking my friends if I was. I had become extremely anti-social and just stayed home. October 24th could not come soon enough.

Mark, Brigham, and I went to the ultrasound together where we found out that we have an Aubree Rose on the way! Lucky for us it was a girl. We have had a girl name picked out since before I was even pregnant this time. Boy names are much harder for us to agree on.

Mark left right after the ultrasound and headed to school. Brigham and I went home where we prepared for that evenings FHE with Nate, Scarlett, Carolina, Daniel, Katelyn, Brandon, and the kids. Mark spent all afternoon after class preparing our FHE video for the night. The video was our lesson for the night! Mark found a video about honesty and then added a song and some text at the end that let everyone in on our very big secret. It was such a fun way to tell everyone that not only did we have a baby on the way but that we knew it was a girl and we had a name for her. It was nice not to have to live in hiding anymore but it was also a little bittersweet. It was fun having a big fat secret of our own! It also felt like time just stopped once we told everyone. Mark and I never really even talked about the pregnancy because we didn't want to slip up when other people are around so time went fairly quickly leading up to October 24th. It has only been 10 weeks since then and it feels like it has been so much longer! We are super excited about our little Aubree and we can not wait to meet her and hold her in our arms.

This pregnancy has been different than with Brigham. My hormones are going crazy and I feel angry a lot of the time. I blame the hormones! We also were a little concerned about our Aubree Rose having cystic fibrosis. With Brigham I didn't get any genetic testing done but this time around I did. The testing showed that I was a carrier for cf and if it turned out that Mark was also a carrier then our children have a 25% chance of having cf. I ended up getting an amniocentesis to test Aubree's DNA in the amniotic fluid. That was the most painful thing I have ever experienced. I hope I never have to get it done again. I was in pain from the needle for over a week! I could not believe it took that long to recover. Now, it only took that long because on the 3rd day I felt back to normal and I did way too much that day and it took another week from then to fully recover. It took nearly a month but the results came back as Aubree being a only a carrier for cf. What great news! Mark is planning on getting tested to see if he is a carrier before we have our next baby. If he is then we will be all done having babies.

As for now, March can't get here fast enough! My original due date was April 1st but it has been moved to March 29th. We are hoping for a March 23rd baby! I just keep thinking that I just need to make it to March and the month will go by quickly. We will see though. It will probably drag by slower than the last 10 weeks have!