Pregnancy, Multiples, H1N1 and life…
November 16, 2009Wow – a lot has happened since I posted last! Some of you may know that we’re expecting in May (which we’re super excited about). And to top it off, our first ultrasound showed another set of spontaneous twins!! (Drew keeps saying we should start playing the lottery!) It’s still too early to know genders (we’re at the beginning of the 2nd trimester now) but the u/s tech said she’s thinking whatever they end up being that they will be the same gender. We’ll see! Hopefully we’ll know before Christmas! The kids are beyond themselves with excitement and say they can’t wait to play with the new additions (I didn’t tell them that newborns really don’t play much!)
Of course while battling morning sickness, we somehow managed to pick up the h1n1 flu. Colin, Meg, Teagan and I all had it at the same time. It definitely hit me harder than the kids, but we expected that since being pregnant puts me at a higher risk, and being pregnant with twins meant that it would be even harder than normal. After a week of living on the couch, I’m finally back to normal. The kids all bounced back quickly (the girls still have lingering fevers, preventing them from going to school, but feel totally fine other than that.) I feel like we need a bumper sticker that says “we survived h1n1″.
So between the awful morning sickness (it was never this bad with the other pregnancies so it took me totally by surprise) and the flu attacking our house, things have been a bit… well, crazy.
A few people have asked if I will be continuing to photograph. And I certainly will – after this pregnancy is over. My pregnancies are high risk due to the fact that I tend to go into preterm labor. Luckily, I knew we were going to start trying for a baby in advance and cleared my schedule in anticipation of it. So from now until June I’m off. Of course you can still order prints and cards if your session has already happened. But I won’t be doing any new sessions for a while.
For now we’re just going day by day and praying for full term, healthy, happy, fat babies. Or at least 34 weeks – that would be awesome.
I’m going back to photograph the rest of the family next spring/summer and I can’t wait! Thanks for making my job so easy!
