Life with a Toddler Boy

Welcome to the story of our life!  I've wanted to share my story of pregnancy for the longest time but never knew how to share it. Finding out I was pregnant at 17 weeks, which is about 4 1/2 months pregnant, was the biggest curveball I could ever imagine. My previous blog post explains us finding out we were expecting but the biggest change was learning to love my body at such a fast rate.  I was lifting weights, exercising frequently, eating healthy and doing everything that I needed to be doing. For some reason, I never felt comfortable being pregnant. I was incredibly self-conscious, felt awkward, and felt like a burden to those around me by being pregnant. My husband would say that I have no reason to feel that way but I could never shake that feeling. I wore big baggy clothes all the time and couldn't accept the way I looked. I saw all these other moms who were pregnant at the same time as I was and could see them posting pictures of their pregnancy and I couldn't sta...

I am a mom to an almost 2 year old little boy who is the life of the party no matter where we go. He has non-stop energy and is a climbing machine. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love him to death but I never expected this amount of crazy.   This is my son as a newborn. He was born January 25, 2020 and we found out we were pregnant with him in April of 2019. We were so excited to be having a baby and honestly couldn't wait for him to come. Then tragedy struck. At 7 weeks into my pregnancy, I began bleeding. I wasn't sure why but over the course of 2 days it became so bad and I ended up passing out on the toilet. When I woke up, I didn't know what had happened or if I had a miscarriage. My husband and I went to the urgent clinic because it was the only place available other then the hospital to ask them for help in finding out what was wrong.  When we got there I was a wreck and when the receptionist asked what we needed, all I could tell her was I'm pregnant but I...