It’s been a minute since I popped on here to blog, but I’ve basically been in survival mode over here trying to survive the first trimester. I’ve done that & then some at this point and it’s literally insane to me that we are 17 weeks pregnant with our baby boy.
If you’ve been around here a little, you know that we miscarried our rainbow baby, Slade, in August of 2020. It was a quick 7 weeks & we were totally devastated from our loss. We immediately began to try again for a baby and after 8 long months, we finally got our rainbow babe.
It was the craziest thing. I was so used to tracking my cycle methodically, but I was out in OKC visiting a friend the end of March & at my parents cabin in Georgia immediately after. I was so busy living in the moment with family & friends, that I completely forgot to track my cycle. I was actually in Georgia when my sister commented about being on her period (& we’ve always had a similar cycle) and I took a look at my app and realized I was late. I waited until April 3rd to take a test when I got home and was with Josh. We actually got hope April 2nd, but we didn’t want another negative on my birthday, so we waited a day to take it, but either way, we got two positive tests and the tears started rolling.
It was a beautiful collision of doctors appointments, photo shoots (planned since our anniversary in February), and mothers day when we broke the news to our family. As the first grandbaby on both sides, we can say that they were all OVER THE MOON. I shared some of their reactions over on my Instagram if you want a peek into it.
Fast forward a few weeks & our siblings hosted the cutest gender reveal for us & we found out that we were having a boy! A boy was ALL THAT JOSH WANTED so we are thrilled. We had already settled on a boy name (and had no idea what the name would be if it was a girl). We loved the name Ryder, then decided to carry on the same name as Josh with the remaining name. So we introduce to you — Ryder Michael Moses Marciano coming in hot December 2021. Our official due date is December 8th, but we know how that goes. We go in 3 weeks for our anatomy scan, but we’ve been hearing his heartbeat at the past few appointments and we are already in love!
Anyways, that’s a summary of the past few weeks of our lives. I have a first trimester blog coming at you soon with more info, but I wanted to share our fun announcement on here first!
Chat soon!
Hil & Josh (& Ryder)
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