2018 July/August was when this adventure began. Nothing like being 5 months pregnant and having to transfer your care mid-pregnancy to a huge hospital. You already have a number of appointments as is for a normal pregnancy, now on top of that I had a ton more added to monitor the heart defect for our lil one that was going to arrive before we knew it.

But nonetheless, we did what was the best for this baby. I waddled each month through the huge hospital trying to find my way to the different doctors that I needed to see each time. Soon enough I had it down with no problem, but still you know how it is when you’re pregnant and having to pee all the time and your appointment is down this hallway, up those elevators, down this hallway etc. Luckily for me they tried to schedule multiple appointments in one day as best we could. Or in the morning so I could at least go to work, leave for an hour or two and come back to finish out the day.

The nice thing was I got to see my sweet baby multiple times. Between echocardiograms to see her heart and then sonograms to check on her size. Naturally she never liked getting pictures taken though so many sonograms they couldn’t get everything they needed or see her face hahahaha. The first few though I didn’t know what we were having since we hadn’t had our gender reveal party yet, so I had to keep reminding the sono techs not to slip up hahaha.

August, September, October were filled with these appointments. Each showing that not much was changing with her heart unfortunately. She was growing strong though, but that left part of her heart just wasn’t keeping up. In between all of this we managed to do our gender reveal party, a little fun amongst the crazy. My mom was the only one who knew what we were having until she had to enlist my dad’s help right before the party hahaha. We decided to do water guns with pink or blue paint so our son could join in the fun. I had made white t-shirts for all 3 of us to wear and when it was time we had a mini water gun fun and revealed the PINK paint on our shirts! Our friends and family couldn’t believe it, we’re a family of BOYS! hahaha Our son wasn’t sure what to make of it at first then was excited when he realized he would have a baby sister.