Who me, blog???

Well, I decided to start this little adventure to help aid communication within the family - definitely not because I thought I had anything interesting to say that anyone outside the family would like to read!

We are curretnly 23 weeks and 4 days pregnant with our third child. Our story is kind of long to arrive at this point in the pregnancy. It has not been simple or carefree by any means and at this point in gestation does not promise to be easy at any point. We do not know the gender of this child, and we did not know the genders of our two previous children either. That being said, we have one child here on earth and one child in heaven.

Our earthly child's name is Nate and he is an extremely active soon to be four year old. His favorite place to be is outside, preferably at the park! Our second son, Max, graced our lives for a mere four days before he earned his wings. Though he was here for such a brief time he changed our lives completely. He has a web page all his own that contains his story as well as pictures. Briefly, Nate's pregnancy was normal to full term with no complications. Max's pregnancy took a turn for the worse when my water broke when he was just 23 weeks 4 days gestation. Fortunately, we were able to hold off labor until 26 weeks 5 days on July 28, 2006 when a placental abruption caused true labor. Max was born and when the delivering doctor announced that he was a boy, I was elated as was my husband. Two boys was my idea of a perfect family. Max was two pounds one ounce, pink and just beautiful. A miniature baby with a grave battle before him. Unfortunately the evils of this earth proved too much for his small immature immune system and he succombed to e-coli sepsis on July 31, 2006.

We have just passed his one year birthday and angelversary. Oddly it is like, "New Year," for my family - as though maybe 2007 can actually begin and we can look forward maybe to perhaps the full term birth of our newest hope. But for today, we can only sit and wonder and hope.