When two straight lines change your life - again!

I've been having some difficulty with Addie's feeding and sleeping the past few weeks. Constantly feeding, but screaming at the same time, not going to sleep, waking often and being generally unsettled. I tried to give her some formula to see if she needed something extra but she refused it in every form. I was feeling so defeated, frustrated and a little bit angry. We have a clinic that can help with things like this on Thursdays, so last week I decided to take her and see what they advised. While I was thinking about it I remembered that pregnancy can sometimes cause funny reactions with babies, and so I did a test so I could rule it out.

Wrong. There were two lines. Not one, two.

Ahhhh!!!!!! I had some worries late last week after some spotting - very common but also a bit scary! This encouraged me to trot off to the Dr on Monday and get a blood test. It came back with good high levels of HcG the hormone that helps keep the developing embryo alive. We're not sure of exact dates but we estimate that I'm about 5 weeks pregnant and due in January 2011.

Sure its early to be sharing the news. Things can go wrong and the highest percentage of miscarriage is before 12 weeks, but we'd rather share the sweet or bitter with the people that we share the rest of our lives with. We're pretty excited about this addition to our family!