In this personal essay, Katherine Heigl shares her excitement regarding becoming pregnant for the very first time and giving her daughters a brand-new sibling. This article additionally appears on the actress’ blog, Those Heavenly Days.
Sooooo….the Kelley family received some quite exciting news recently, and I’ve been dying to discuss it along with you all. We are expecting a 3rd addition to our tribe! It was entirely unexpected however thrilling nonetheless. Naleigh and Adelaide are over the moon and cannot wait to spoil their brand-new sibling rotten, and of course, Josh and I are complete of higher hopes and bubbling anticipation.
The whole pregnancy thing is brand-new to me, however the thrill of having a baby is not. We’ve known for some time that we wanted to include to our family, and frankly didn’t actually care exactly how we chose to do that. We were curious about adoption again, fostering, or pregnancy if possible. Heading to as I have actually never ever been pregnant, and as my Ob/Gyn reminded me last year, I’m of advanced maternal age, I wasn’t sure pregnancy was also in the cards for us. Turns out it was quite a lot in the cards!
I can’t wait to discuss my pregnancy experience along with you on Those Heavenly Days and with any luck get hold of some insight from all of you endured gestaters (yes, I earned that word up). I’ve learned so a lot currently and understand there’s more to know as this baby grows. I’ve located some excellent tricks to combat pregnancy indigestion, apps that have actually not just saved me informed on the improvement of our baby however have actually readily available reassurance and relief as soon as I’m feeling nervous or afraid, and excellent blogs and manuals on healthy and balanced pregnancy nutrition.
This is actually an amazingly blessed time, waiting for the youngster you’ve been dreaming of to make their appearance. Though I’ve never ever been a particularly patient person, my experience of waiting for Naleigh taught me considerably in that department. So I will certainly wait and eagerly anticipate, with any luck along with grace, gratitude, and an excellent attitude (ummm pregnancy bodily hormones are real, people). Maybe this time the waiting won’t be so difficult due to the fact that I’ll have actually all you to discuss the laughter, tears, and joys of my experience with. So, continue to be tuned…XOXO, KT
Photo: Courtesy of Katherine Heigl.