The Marquez Surprise!

After a weekend away, living it up with other Mom's of Multiples, at our annual state convention (my first one), I came home refreshed and exhausted all at the same time.

My roomie Kelly and I at Friday Night's Masquerade!

That Monday night, I had a meeting, and after picking the kids up from the babysitter's house, I had a random round of "I think I'm going to throw up" as I loaded them into the car.  Crap, that's way too familiar, I thought.  I texted Em, who was working, and told him maybe I should take a test.  Staring at the wall of pregnancy tests the next day, I thought to myself, what am I doing??? This is crazy!! 

I went home, and while the kids were napping, I took the first test.  A generic Target brand, because I was far to cheap, and in a little bit of denial to really think it mattered!  It was an immediate positive.  I checked the directions twice to make sure I was seeing the results correctly.  I came out and told Em, who I'm pretty sure didn't understand why I was panicking.  Another baby?  Right now?  No way, we have two babies!  We were going to wait a few years!  Not possible!  It took so long to get pregnant with the twins, how on earth could it have happened so unexpectedly with this one!  Em didn't believe the results, and went out and purchased a digital test.  Which came back "pregnant"  It was real.  Well kind of, at 10 weeks, I still feel like it's not real yet.   

So anyways!  We are surprised, overwhelmed (well mostly me), excited.. I've been feeling pretty icky, no where near as bad as I was with the twins.  Functioning as a mother of two toddlers, while growing a baby is tough work.  I'm tired and nauseous all day long.  We have had our first ultrasound, in which they confirmed what I already knew, that there is only ONE baby.  So people can stop asking me "what happens if it's twins again?"  I don't have a preference on boy or girl, I just want a healthy baby and a health pregnancy.  I think my anxiety lies with "what happens if this is a repeat HORRIBLE pregnancy?"  Bed rest would be nearly impossible this time around.  I'm leaving it all in God's hands, and the doctor feels confident my complications before were multiple birth related.  

So here are the details.  We are 10 weeks today.  The baby is get ready for this.. due 6/23/13, yes.. if you remember the twins' birthday, that would be 6 days after they turn 2.  I will have a scheduled c-section around 39 weeks, and since my dr does surgeries on Tuesday's, that would possibly put me delivering on 6/18/13.  Exactly 2 years and a day after Liam and Lena were born.  I'll blog thru this pregnancy like I did my last.  :)  Happy Reading.