We are beyond excited to announce that we will be adding another little Speicher to our family in January 2019!  Now I’m just hoping that our two SUV’s will be able to handle all seven of us in one car and that if we travel we can fit the luggage in the car or else the oldest children will be riding on the top!

When Jeremy and I got married, I made it clear to him that I wanted to have more children, you know, because the four we already had weren’t enough.  No, that’s not why.  I wanted to experience the journey of pregnancy and raising a child with someone I was going to spend the rest of my life with and to bring our blended family even closer together.  He obviously agreed with all of that, but there was just one problem; he had a vasectomy 7 years ago.  Now, if you’re a man and you’re reading this then you are probably cringing at the world vasectomy right now.  Fortunately, vasectomy’s can be successfully reversed nowadays (cringe again, men) and fortunately my husband loves me so much to go through that pain again.  So, on December 28, 2018, Jeremy had a vasectomy reversal (Merry Christmas to me).

When you’re considering something like vasectomy reversal or any type of surgery, what do you do?  You Google every single thing that crosses your mind; the success rate, what could go wrong, what the recovery time is, what do you have to do during that recovery time, etc.  All of these things we just continually read and read.  It was kind of scary not being 100% positive that the reversal would work or that we could even get pregnant in the first place, but sometimes you just have to take that chance.   So, on December 28, 2018, Jeremy had a vasectomy reversal.  The doctor told me that the procedure would only take about forty-five minutes, so I sat there in the waiting room just continuously checking the clock and receiving a phone call about an hour and a half into the surgery saying it ended up being more extensive than he thought.  The surgery was about two and a half hours long and all that was going through my head was “Oh no, we spent all this money and we aren’t going to be able to get pregnant.”  When the doctor came out of surgery, he spoke with me about all of the rest Jeremy will need and that it would possibly take up to a year or more for us to get pregnant because of how extensive the surgery ended up being.  Of course me being the impatient woman that I am, I was just so caught off guard with that statement and determined to not make it a true statement.

We had to wait about a month after the surgery before we could start trying.  So, in February we started trying and of course because I didn’t get that positive result, I was just so devastated.  I wanted it to happen immediately.  March went by and I got another negative result.  When April arrived, I decided to buy an ovulation kit because everyone was telling me that it really works.  I had just been using the ovulation apps on my phone which weren’t totally off, but also not designed just for ME.  On May 9th, I was working out early in the morning and just felt so sluggish, weak, and had some stomach pains.  I started thinking “Oh no, I’m having premenstrual symptoms,” but I just kept trying to get through my workout.  Jeremy left for work shortly after I finished my workout and then the kids left for school.  I walked into the bathroom and just to put my mind at ease so that I would stop thinking about whether it was my period or pregnancy, I decided to take a pregnancy test.  I waited the full three minutes, walked back into the bathroom, glanced at the test and swore I wasn’t going to see a positive result, but then I had to take a second look because it had a BIG FAT POSITIVE.  I immediately jumped up and down and instead of “surprising” Jeremy like I had every intension of doing, I just called him because I didn’t want to tell anyone else first.  He didn’t believe me at first, but when he realized I wasn’t playing a joke on him, he started crying.

Our family is very excited for us, but most importantly our children are so ecstatic to have another sibling!  We can’t wait to meet you, baby Speicher!