These are my Pregnancy Friends

I was thinking just yesterday about where most of my blog followers come from. At first I didn't know. Some just found me randomly, but then I realized there was a common thing among a lot of my followers, and a lot of the favorite blogs I follow: pregnancy. I discovered a lot of your blogs when I was pregnant, because a lot of you were pregnant around the same time. 

Nicole - Pampers and Pumps

Katherine - Irish Italian Blessings

Sean - A Mad Girl's Love Song

Shannon - From Match to Marriage

Noelle - Because Nice Matters

Shelley - Hand in Hand

Kaylee - Moore Kaylee*

Valerie - Next to Heaven*

(in no particular order)

(* means they stopped blogging shortly after baby birth)

All those babies are going on two years old this year. 

I've been following Katie at Loves of Life since the day she wrote about her first daughter being born. Her second baby is about 8 months old now. I've been following Jess at Wrangling Chaos since before her youngest was born. Her youngest is older than Chloe. 

It's just so strange yet amazing to me that I'm watching these children grow up. Children I've never met, and probably never will. Which is sad, but hey, I'm Canadian. But because of blogging I know about these kids, and so I wonder and care about them. 

None of my real life friends have children (until a new addition was born March 17th) so I don't have this in common with anyone else. Just a bunch of my favorite bloggers. 

It's really kind of cool if you ask me. 

So thanks for letting me be a creeper and follow along with your life. And thanks for sticking around and following mine. I know how boring I can be. 

And if you're not one of the bloggers who was pregnant at the same time as me, how did you find my blog?

A bit of a scare

Dear Birth Control Recall, 

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You really got me thinking. 

I've been taking my pills like a good girl, so I've never had reason to worry. But finding out you may have been taken placebos for an extra week? Yeah, a little scary. 

We have two little girls in diapers. I don't want to make it three, even if this one might be a boy. I do want a boy. We also have two little girls that don't always sleep through the night. Last night was prime example, since each girl made their noisy appearance once. Once each is a good night. Not at all is a rare, amazing night these days. I'm not sure I'm quite ready to add a newborn into that mix. 

I have been feeling weird lately. I thought it was because I was using a new brand of birth control. The feeling started a little too early for me to think that it's related to the recall, and that's a bit comforting. And if I am affected, I'll know in less than a week. That's also comforting. 

But really, if I am, maybe it was meant to be. 

If I am, we'll deal. If not, there will be no tears of disappointment on my end. 

Does this count as my first pregnancy scare?