Part 1: Avery's Birth Story

Avery's story actually started long before she was born.

I didn't think we were going to have any more kids after Zachary came to our family.  I loved having my girl and my boy and I did want to have more ... but things didn't work out as I had planned.  I had an ectopic pregnancy when Zachary was one year old.  It was in September of 2010.  I had gone to Urgent Care with pain and had thought I had apendicitis.  Instead, I found out I was pregnant and was advised to go to the ER.  I checked myself in to the ER at noon, had ultrasounds and blood work and discovered I was 5 1/2 weeks pregnant in my right ovary.  (yeah .. one in a million) I was scheduled for surgery at 6pm, but at 5pm my ovary ruptured and I had internal bleeding and was rushed to the OR for emergency surgery.

3 months later, my OB/GYN told me I was young, healthy, and perfectly able to get pregnant again.  So .. we did!  I was pregnant in February of 2011 and went in for my 9 week check in April.  We went in for the ultrasound and the baby was measuring 9 weeks, but there was no heart beat.  Heartbreaking.  I waited 3 weeks to miscarry.

Wesley's exact words after all of this was, "I am ready to throw in the towel if you are."  We thought, maybe we are done.  Maybe 2 kids is enough for us. 

I decided that I should go on "the pill" for a while and just not try to have any more kids.  For the next 7 or 8 months I felt great .. didn't think too much about having more kids.  Then one day, everything changed.