Let me start off by saying that I was really scared to go through pregnancy again, with my first I had a miserable 9 months with never ending nausea, not being able to keep food down, pre eclampsia, 30 hours in labour ending with an emergency c section, blood transfusion and 12 weeks of heavy postpartum bleeding that had me anemic, recovery was roughhhh and I had post partum depression.

So after 3 years of saying I'll never go through it again, I realised I still wanted to give my son a sibling, I always envisioned having 2 kids 3-4 years apart like me and my brother were, so I got off BC and started ttc in November 2020.

I finally conceived in March and my due date was 12/12/21. Through my whole pregnancy I've had no symptoms, never thrown up, had no food aversions or cravings, no mood swings, body aches or tiredness, nothing! I had elevated blood pressure which I was put on blood pressure medication for and monitored twice a week but none of that made me feel any different, I wouldn't have even known, I basically didn't feel "pregnant" even when I was 9 months, I felt normal. I decided to have an elective c section and it was on the 6th (2 weeks ago), the whole process was so calming to me the night before I gave myself a spa night, got to the hospital at 7am, done my bloods and chilled with my partner and midwifes in a really cozy room, at 11am I was brought up to the operating room and got my spinal block, everyone was so supportive, had a doctor cracking jokes to me too, then the operation started and my partner held my hand through it as I sang songs in my head and watched the clock, all I felt was some pressure and I swear I felt a person put their whole body weight on my stomach but it felt funny 😂 then I heard a cry, they cleaned my baby up and placed him on my chest as they stitched me up 🥰 I was then brought into the recovery room and everything was going perfectly, my baby latched on so beautifully and all his health checks were perfect. Just a couple hours later I was alone in the ward and didn't want to bother the midwifes to help and pass me a nappy so I tried to get up and get it myself still with a catheter in, to my surprise I was able to do it! In the morning I asked to have it taken out and I was up and moving, went for a shower and got myself dressed, I felt amazing! It's been 2 weeks since the c section and I feel like I've fully recovered, I've only bled for 3 days (very heavily and painfully may I add, I made a puddle of blood on the floor at the hospital and had doctors rushing in to check me 🤦🏼‍♀️but I'd rather that than the 12 weeks I had with my last), I've been on walks outdoors a couple times already and one of the times I had to even speedwalk as I was late picking my son from school 😅 my baby is sleeping wonderfully and his not really a crier so I'm getting 3-4 hour stretches of sleep every night between feedings, I'm in no pain at all and I have no postpartum depression!! It's quite the opposite, more like postpartum euphoria 🥰 this whole journey this time around has been so easy, like one minute im a mom of one and the next another baby pops out of nowhere and I'm a mom of 2 beautiful boys ☺️ and to top it all off, I decided to weigh myself today and I'm pre pregnancy weight already (I won't share what that is, it's a secret and plan on working on it after my 6 week check up 😉)

Honestly I can't believe how amazing its been and I can't be more thankful 🙏

Here is my little guy born at 39 weeks at 8lbs 5oz 🥰