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I had my first child, Sierra,
in 2005 and with the exception of the first three months of
her life, I thoroughly enjoyed just about everything mommy’hood’
had to offer. Even the labour and delivery weren’t half
as bad as the nausea I felt for the entire duration of my
pregnancy!
I often thought if only I didn’t
have to endure the 9 months of agony (and well those first
three brutal months), I would have lots of these bundles of
pure joy!! Then I surprisingly found out that I was pregnant
again, when Sierra was only 8 months old. There were so many
mixed feelings. I mean I wanted more children for sure but
I really loved our new family of three and loved spending
all of my time with Sierra. I couldn’t have imagined
feeling more love in my life. I wondered how we could ever
love another child the same way and I wasn’t ready to
give Sierra less attention. I had even counted on taking an
extended maternity leave to stay home with her longer.
I was pregnant but to be honest,
not totally happy like I had been the first time around. Then
at 12 weeks I started to bleed, so much that I felt it as
soon as it happened. No pain, just bleeding. I didn’t
bleed at all during my first pregnancy so I assumed I was
miscarrying. I immediately realized just how much I wanted
this baby even though the timing was not perfect.
After a long, anxious wait
in the hospital and then having to go back again the next
day, my husband and I were relieved to find out that the baby
was just fine. With the exception of the bleeding scare, thankfully
my second pregnancy wasn’t quite as bad as the first
- I only had to be on Dicletin for 7 months instead of 10;
heartburn was about the same but the good part was I could
actually sleep in my bed (instead of a lazy boy) fairly comfortably.
And once again, labour and
delivery was quick and fairly easy (I highly recommend the
epidural even though I didn’t have time for it to kick
in the second time around). Sierra’s sister, Sydney,
was born within an hour of our arrival at the hospital. Sydney
is now 3 months old and I understand how your heart just grows
again. Our two lil’ girls are the loves of our lives.
And even though the last three months have been quite an adjustment
(Sierra going through an early ‘terrible twos’
phase and Sydney having a lot gas pain just as her sister
did), the joy of a new baby extends not only to my husband
and I again, but now to Sierra as well. It is simply indescribable.
It melts my heart to see Sierra hug & squeeze & kiss
her lil’ baby sister!!!
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