Can’t Believe This Is Real

Oh boy, where to even begin!

So I have a little boy, he’ll be three this November, I also have a little girl, she’ll be three months on June 9th. Both of my children were c-section deliveries due to size: My son was 9lb11oz & 23.5 inches long,

my daughter was 9lbs9oz & 21.5 inches long.

I have endometriosis, I have had four miscarriages before and between my two children. pregnancy is absolute hell on me and my body, I was on 6 different medications with my daughter just to get through each day, I had migraines, high blood pressure, extremely low iron to where I had to get an iron transfusion, pain that never stopped, had to be hospitalized for three days due to an unknown pain in my right upper side/abdomen that lead to two ultrasounds, an MRI, x-ray etc and while I was in the hospital my hemoglobin count dropped to 7.4. One Dr from our office kept brushing it off as “round ligament pain” it was not, my daughter had severely bruised my rib area and caused my kidney to swell really bad. I also had Hypermesis the entire pregnancy and I kept going into early labor from 29 weeks on but they were able to stop it and I got to 39 weeks. My son was rough on me too, but my daughter was so much worse. After all this I talked to my husband and we decided no more babies and I got my tubes tied.

Not even a month after my daughter was born I became very sick out of nowhere and had horrible pain. When I say out of nowhere I mean literally other than some discomfort I was fine during the first day and then that night I spiked a 102.5 fever and by mid afternoon the following day it was 103.8. I ended up rushed to the hospital twice, the second trip I was admitted and they found a very bad blood infection that infected my kidney.. I was told that had I waited even one more day, I could have died.

My daughter turned a month old while I was in the hospital. So as if 2020 hasn’t already been a doozy, this is how it’s going for me: My tubes were tied not even three months ago, (had them done immediately after my daughter was out), I just found out yesterday that I’m 6 weeks pregnant. ......

WHAT! This is crazy! I knew I haven’t been feeling well for a few days, but I was thinking it’s from sleep deprivation.. no, I’m flipping pregnant.

My husband and I are in complete shock, I’m worried, stressed, confused, concerned, you name it.. a literal basket of emotions. My Dr said in all his years while he has had confirmed pregnancies after a tubal, it’s always been after a year or two and for the most part, rare. He’s never had one less than three months after operation and he’s completely baffled. I am being brought in Thursday for an ultrasound so that we can see where the baby is and if the baby is ok etc and then we go from there. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE kids, and I feel very blessed because I know there are women out there who struggle to get pregnant and my heart hurts for them.... but this should be impossible. We may not be ready for another baby, and things may be difficult, but babies are a blessing and we are happy and praying for a healthy pregnancy and a happy healthy baby. I’m just... I have no words. We have decided that as long as this is a viable pregnancy since we don’t know yet if the baby is in my tubes, we will be immediately telling our family because are seriously going to need that emotional support.

So, prayers please, for a healthy baby, for a better pregnancy, for my husband and I, for our poor families etc. I’ll keep everyone updated.

Baby Owens #3 due January 17th 2021