Hellobee

The Confetti family has news to share!  We’re expecting another little Confetti-baby late this fall!

Last I blogged, I shared the exciting and eventful story of an IUD gone rogue. After that whole ordeal, the plan was to go back on the Pill. But after picking up the pill pack from the pharmacy, there was just something inside me that couldn’t stomach starting the pill only to stop later in the year when we planned to start trying for #3. Since neither of our first two TTC journeys were particularly quick and easy (trying for nine months before our first baby, and a miscarriage between #1 and #2), I assumed that if I skipped the pill, we wouldn’t likely get pregnant easily or quickly. Without charting or temping, we figured we’d rely on a very casual implementation of the rhythm method of birth control.

My family of four – can’t believe we’re soon to be FIVE!

Well ladies and gents, there’s a reason that they teach you in health class that the rhythm method isn’t 100% effective. In our case, it was 0% effective, but we are 100% thrilled. It was the most incredible surprise we could ever have asked for, to find ourselves with this incredible gift: a pregnancy without months of effort to get to that point. And even better, a pregnancy that has passed all of the early scans with flying colors, and isn’t making me puke my guts out to boot.

From the moment we found out about this pregnancy, I was convinced from the beginning that it would be another boy. While I can’t lie and say that I was truly excited to hear that my second was another boy, having hoped for a girl, but by now, four years into this parenting gig, little boys are all I’ve known, and I couldn’t imagine having anything else. Mr. Confetti, on the other hand, had a vivid dream in the earliest days of this pregnancy that the baby would be a girl and that she would be born on our living room floor before we could get to the hospital (oy!).

So the very icing on the cake is what we discovered with the results of our MaterniT21 test. My midwife’s office gave me the results of the baby’s sex in an envelope, and my neighbor and friend helped us orchestrate our reveal (with the help of Lori K Sapio Photography).

The shock of having a girl still hasn’t worn off, weeks after finding out. We are all so excited, though my oldest son Colin is definitely the MOST excited – he has been asking for a baby sister for MONTHS – whereas his little brother, at 16 months, doesn’t really know what’s going on. We’re hoping that the next 24 weeks go as smoothly as the first 16.