Dear Baby S,

It’s hard to believe that in one year from now when Christmas is here, you could be almost walking. I know you’ll love the magic of the season as much as we do. I also can’t believe that last Christmas at this time you were still just in our hopes and prayers. In just a few weeks we would be getting our box of medicine, shots, and calendar. In just a few weeks we would start our journey to hopefully become parents. That journey wouldn’t be easy, which we knew. In just a couple months we would take our first pregnancy test after IVF and learn that it didn’t work. For reasons that we’ll never know, we lost those embryos. We’d try it again in just a few months after that with our last 2 embryos. One we’d lose. But YOU, our little embryo that could, would start off as just 2 pink lines. YOU, our little embryo that could, would finally give us the names we’ve been wanting to hear for so long: Mommy and Daddy. YOU, our little embryo that could, are our miracle. YOU are our hopes and dreams. And we can’t wait to meet YOU oh so soon. 

Love, Mommy

P.s if you could stop kicking me in the ribs, that’d be great! 😉

34 weeks pregnant and I feel.really.pregnant. Like really. Like all I want to do is eat this queso and sleep. And I might just do that. (Unless Ty beats me to it!) 

We’re getting to the home stretch though! I’m feeling a lot less stressed and overwhelmed lately which is nice. I think it helps because we have a lot of things done! Just gotta get the hospital bag done and I hear we need some things in the diaper bag, too! 

34 weeks…wow! We’re getting SO close to meeting this little embryo that could!!! ❤

This babe is getting some cheeks! 

We went in for an ultrasound growth check. I was measuring ahead a couple of weeks at my last doctors appointment so our doctor just wanted to make sure there wasn’t anything wrong or there was extra fluid or something like that. Everything looks great! We just have a healthy 5.5 pound baby in there!! Woah nelly!! No wonder I’ve been starting to feel uncomfortable! That baby is growing like a weed! So even though we’re at 33 weeks Baby S is around the size of a 35-weeker. The ultrasound tech wasn’t concerned, it’s still in the healthy range and I don’t think that means it’ll come early BUT I won’t oppose to a couple weeks early so I’m not trying to give birth to a 10 pound baby!! But as long as everything is good and healthy that’s all that matters. I’ll take the rib kicks any day! 

I can’t see my feet. 

So if I’m wearing 2 different shoes, please let me know! It’s such a funny feeling! You’re so used to doing things like normal and then one day BAM you can’t! Putting shoes on, rolling out of bed, reaching the car door, squeezing behind someone (I get stuck with that one almost daily), getting out of the bathtub…the list goes on and on. It’ll be weird once this little bundle of joy is here and all those simple things become simple again, lol.

I seriously can’t believe we are only 8 weeks away (give or take). 8 weeks. That means I’m 8 months pregnant! So many emotions are tied to that and every little jab I get from baby makes me even more excited to finally meet our little embryo that could. Will it have hair? Will it have Laryen’s eyes? Will it have my nose? Oh and will it be a boy or a girl?! So many questions will be answered in just a few short weeks. Such an amazing miracle from above. ❤