Our little family is growing 🦋 And what an absolute BLESSING this is 🤲🏽✨🙏🏽 Back story incoming because I can’t articulate the level of blessing without painting the full picture. This time last year was an incredibly difficult one for us. I was pregnant. And while some take early testing for the cheeky fun of a gender reveal, we received not so great news about our fetus health and survival rate. At 17 weeks, our pregnancy ended a couple days before Naija’s 2nd birthday. It was an absolute wave of emotions at once - grieving the life of one (and what our life could be), trying to be grateful & present to celebrate the beautiful life of another, all while physically & mentally healing myself. Side note - even when asked with all the love and innocent curiosity, please be mindful of asking people when they’re having kids, or if they want another, unless the family brings it up themselves. This simple & often harmless question is a lot bigger than people think and can hit differently for everyone! It took us a lot to get here and this experience has taught us a lot along the way, and my heart goes out to anyone experiencing reproductive challenges of any magnitude. 🤍 A year has passed which brings us to where we are now, and we are so blessed, thankful, & lucky to say that we are 17 weeks pregnant, just days before Naija’s 3rd birthday, with TWO on the way! Yes .. twins. 👶🏽👶🏽 We are just as far along as we were this exact time last year, and by chance, with the EXACT same due date (New Years Eve.. I have a whole other slew of symbolic thoughts on this that I’ll save for another time). With twins, we anticipate they’ll come sooner than our EDD but I can’t help but think this is our angel baby making its way back to us in another life. My OB said “you know what they say - your children are always with you” and at this point, that couldn’t be more true. And as overly sentimental as this may be, I strongly believe this is Gods way of telling me that baby was meant to walk this earth with us. They say ‘beautiful skies come after the storm’ and the most beautiful one is finally here in front of me 🌅💛 — 📷✨ @jenzelvelo