by Mandi on March 15, 2013
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After I miscarried in October, I found myself locked in a tug-of-war with myself: We have four beautiful daughters. Our youngest is (finally!) out of diapers and sleeping through the night. Life is good. Do we really want to try for another baby?
But each month I would feel that familiar longing, and try we would. And each month I would feel a little heartbroken over the negative test that followed.
It got a little harder to see other people’s pregnancy and birth announcements (as much as I didn’t want it too!), and even though four months isn’t long at all in the grand scheme of things, it was long for us, and it was nervewracking.
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by Mandi on October 31, 2012
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Just before Sean and I left for our 10th anniversary trip to Charleston, South Carolina, we received a gift we had been hoping and praying for…a positive pregnancy test and the knowledge that a new little Ehman would be joining our family next summer.
Although we thought we were done adding to our family after the birth of our fourth {very colicky} daughter, Sean and I had decided over the summer that we were ready to add to our family after all, so that positive test was a happy moment.
This obviously wasn’t my first pregnancy (with four beautiful girls and three miscarriages already) but I was just as excited as with the first, and while we waited a couple weeks to announce it publicly, we were too excited to wait any longer to share the news.
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