Timing

I've wanted this for so long and my younger daughter is about to turn 4. Why did I wait so long? Well, before doing a tummy tuck I had to be 110% sure I was done having kids, youngest had to be mobile & not too dependent and able to voice basic needs (that was what I thought would be best so I deemed it necessary). Both of my pregnancies had complications, the more recent being gestational diabetes. Once having that it's pretty much guaranteed that you'll have it in following pregnancies and your chances for developing type II diabetes later on in life goes up. Well I'll tell ya it's no fun monitoring blood sugars! I don't even want to think about insulin shots for another pregnancy or even the rest of my life. No thank you! Then with the girls being how they are (aka handfuls) we decided we're done. We had wanted a boy, but that didn't happen but we're okay with that. Hubby had a vasectomy almost 2 years ago but I still didn't feel completely sure about no more kids at that time (ssshhh haha), but now I am definitely sure. I don't want to put my body through more pregnancies, my body wasn't made to have lots of babies!

Now my youngest is very big & I've been missing babies & small toddlers a bit, feeling the itch for a baby grow. I figure getting the surgeries done now would help a stop to that, a closure to that part in life with having things fixed as good as can be. My 30th birthday will be about 3 months post-op so it's a good present there being that far along in healing by then & feeling better. Start a new decade better than ever!

Hubby started his job here almost 2 years ago. He had to save up vacation time to be able to take care of me (which he's taking over 3 weeks off after my surgery!!!). In-laws will be travelling from out of state & they won't come in the winter, so spring time it was! We figure the older girl being in school would be easier as well. The in-laws will be a great source of distraction & entertainment for the youngest so that Hubby can give me all the attention/care I need for the first while. They will also take care of her on surgery day.

Surgery day it's scheduled April 27th at 8:00 am EST. We have to be there by 7:00 am with an hour drive, so we plan on leaving at 5:30 (hopefully) to make sure we're early. I was told surgery should be about 4.5 hours, then roughly 2 hours in a recovery room & I'll be released to go home. That will probably be the kids' hardest day, but they'll live :)

I have 2 more blogs ready to go, just trying to limit to 2 a day for now. They will REALLY slow down later!