A Pregnancy Alone - My First Experience As A Military Wife

We found out I was pregnant with my son shortly after my trip to Italy (by the way absolutely amazing & post to come)to visit my at the time Fiance! Needless to say it was a huge shock but we were both super excited, there was only one problem. He was still in freaking Italy! He wouldn't be leaving there until 2018 and then the royal freak out started to happen.

How is this going to work?
I will have a newborn and a six year old by myself!
Will he miss all the doctors appointments?
Will he miss the birth?
Can I go into labor without him?
Holy crap I seriously might die!
(Yes I am that kinda drama queen!)

I quickly realized I was in charge of everything. I picked my awesome new doctor and I didn't have to try and arrange the appointments around his schedule only mine. So that was a plus! I was amazed at how understanding the new Doctor's office was about my Husband being military. They told me I could face time every appointment if I wanted to and they would give me a ton of pictures with each ultrasound to send off to him. Granted we didn't get to Face time as much as I wanted due to the 7 hour time change but we did get some in!

Luckily for me my Hubby is normally calm, cool, and collective! He planned leave to come home for 15 days so we could get married. My original June wedding was pushed up to February ( so I wouldn't be about to pop pregnant) and we planned that easily and quickly.

The freak out was coming to a dull worry!

Yes, being without him sucked but I did get to throw a few surprises in there and his reactions were so worth it! For his birthday I had a 4D ultrasound done to find out the gender and one of our mutual friends that was stationed with him surprised him at work with a reveal box! The best part was she videoed the whole thing for me!

Yea, he thought it was a girl because it had "girly" paper. Joke was on him when that balloon was blue!

The internet is an amazing thing I was able to document the entire pregnancy for him through pictures and video.

As I got closer and closer to my due date we had a couple of scares that I was going to go into labor with out him but after being very careful and taking it easy I made it to 38 weeks! By the time he got home I could hardly walk it was more of a waddle and he was so excited when he got off the plane his face was blood red. I thought it was hilarious that my belly was so big I had to stretch up to kiss him.

He was just happy he got to see the waddle in person & laughed at me having to get up a thousand times a night to go pee! I never thought I would see a man find that funny while he was trying to sleep but mine did!

I was induced & Grayson was born four days later! He got to experience the birth & all the firsts that come along with it. He never left our side and stayed right there through the whole induction and even though I knew he was completely freaking out it never showed.

Our experience wasn't ideal but it was still perfect none the less. I have seen tons of freak out posts about husbands missing the births and missing the whole pregnancy & it makes me so thankful that I was lucky enough to have my Sailor make it home just in time. We made it work and I know others can to!

Now leaving me with a two week old and a six year old was a completely different story! (I'm sure there will be a vent blog post coming soon!)

Comment below and let me know about your birth story! For more about me and my family check out Random Facts Are Fun!