The Beginning

I decided to create this blog to try to attempt to navigate the world of having two babies under two. Although I'm no writer it helps me work through things to talk them out in my head or write. I have two babies my daughter is 17.5 months and my son is 10 weeks. And yes we wanted more than one child, but didn't expect the second one to happen so fast, although we weren't preventing a pregnancy we weren't necessarily 'trying'. Let me explain what I mean because a lot of people say if you're not using protection to prevent a pregnancy then you are trying. It took me almost two years, 20 months to be exact, to get pregnant with my daughter and I was 35 years old. My husband and I would joke when I was pregnant with her that we'd have to start trying again when she was 6 months old, after all I would be 36 1/2 years old when she was 6 months old and since it took so long the first time I felt like time was not on my side. After we had our daughter (Sept 2007) we didn't even seriously discuss when we'd start trying again. To myself I thought maybe when she was about nine months old or so because we had a couple of events - a family wedding, and two weekends out of town planned for the spring of 2008. I thought once those were over then we'll start thinking, planning and trying. I had 'morning' (I put this in quotes b/c the term morning sickness is ridiculous since I had it all day long) sickness 24/7 with my daughter and the events we had coming up would not be fun if I had morning sickness. Little did we know we wouldn't need to start planning. I got pregnant when my daughter was 6 months old, she was 7 months when I found out. My husband and I both laughed about finding out...the kind of nervous, excited laugh you get when you don't know what to make of things. It was actually quite a relief that we didn't have to go through what we had two the first time to get pregnant. We were very excited to be welcoming our second baby soon...our journey began when our son was born in Dec 2008.