We’re adding baby #3 to the Lane crew this spring! This little one’s due date will be right around mid-April, which is also the same time as Harrison’s birthday. I’m well into my second trimester now, and our 20 week sonogram is just a few weeks away after the Thanksgiving holiday.

It’s taken us so much longer this time around to be able to tell friends and family. Life already feels so busy with just two little ones, and we wanted to be able to tell as many people as we could in person.

I wrote the below post when we first found out we were pregnant, and I thought this was would be the perfect opportunity to share it……

I’m sitting here typing this at four weeks pregnant. You won’t read this until much later. I wanted to record some of my earliest thoughts and symptoms. Nathan and I found out that I was pregnant at exactly four weeks. I knew the moment that I had Jonathan, almost like a transcendent experience, a voice inside of my head said, “this isn’t it.” I knew since July 30, 2020, that we would try for one more. We, of course, weighed the pros and cons, though. Especially as of late, as we watch Jonathan start to become increasingly independent. Able to play by himself, not requiring constant parent supervision, to feed himself, find his shoes, help clean up after himself. And we ruminated at the, “wow, this is nice. Are we sure we want to try for another and go back to the newborn stage again?”

But there was that tug that it just wasn’t quite complete. Even though I could come up with a million and one reasons why life may be simpler as a family of four. But here we are, waiting for baby number three.

It feels different. Knowing that this will be the last. There’s a finality in it, and a maturity about this pregnancy. An ability to savor it a bit more. That this will be the last time to feel morning sickness. This will be the last time to watch my body grow seemingly overnight. To be able to nourish another human being from my body. And that’s comforting knowing that this is it. Enjoy it. How fast it goes.

I feel sicker this pregnancy. Already feeling nauseous and the lack of energy of the first trimester at even just four weeks. I’m thankful to be able to do this again. Praying a lot that this little one is knit together inside of me to be a healthy, beautiful little one. That the pregnancy will go by with ease, labor and delivery, too. That our family will grow perfectly and adapt. And that we cherish these last firsts.