Aloha my name is Stacie and I am "mom" to 4 beautiful children. This site is began as the journey through my 5th pregnancy which I referred to as our "Unexpected Blessing." But it's also become a site about loss, dealing with miscarrige, renewed hope, and the road beyond this challenge in life.
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So, I’m feeling much better emotionally today. Thank goodness!The ultrasound went so great. It was a bit scary any time the tech stayed in one place for a while trying to get better angles and views of whatever she was looking at, but in the end she said everything looks beautiful with baby […]
Right now I feel like I have nothing left. Life has been busy and crazy for a while, then some other stuff came up and dealing with everything isn’t easy, but it’s not so bad when you have someone by your side. Someone who, at the end of the day, is there to […]
Yay! I’m finally at the point where I’m feeling movement every day. One other preggo mama on a message board mentioned how it would be nice if baby could move on command so that we could be reassured when we need it. LOL - that would be so cool, feeling baby movements […]
Whew - life has been ridiculously crazy the past few weeks. On top of that, I had a cold! Well, just when I thought life would be slowing down, I look at my calendar and see something going on just about every day for the next two weeks! Eek! Thankfully, the […]
I had my 14 week appointment today. Thankfully it was uneventful. I’ve gained 5 lbs so far and am actually measuring “about right” for this time. Baby’s heartbeat was in the 150 range which is the same as what my son was always at. Unfortunately, I don’t remember what the girls’ heartrate’s were, so I […]
…one more thing…according to the measurements shown on the u/s - baby is now about an inch and a half long!!! I was expecting 1 inch, but an inch and a half! Wow - grow little one grow!!!! So different from the ultrasound I had 4 weeks ago which only showed a […]
At first the ultrasound was a little scary because I did see anything on the screen, then the dr said, “There it is” and I still didn’t really see it, but he moved the wand thing and the image cleared up. Boy was baby moving all over! Then the dr asked baby to […]