As all of you here remember, save for maybe those noobs Gagan and Rebel Ecks, things went horribly bad for me and my wife nearly a year ago now.  What you probably forgot is that pretty early on we informed ourselves about the possibilities of another pregnancy.  We were told that, yes, we can get pregnant again, but specialists had very varying opinions on how long we should wait before trying again as to avoid any risk of the scar nog having fully healed.  We heard timeframes ranging from 6 months to a year and a half.  The specialist who seemed most qualified to us simply stated that as long as my wife didn't have any contractions, it really didn't matter much and we'd be fine if we waited about 6 months.

So that's what we did, and to great success.  The baby is set to arrive in September, but since we'll be schedualed for an early ceasar section, it'll probably be end August to early September.  Usually things like this are happy events.  Now however, it is very mixed.  My wife is still working part-time and receiving a sum on the side for being partially unfit to work from some institution or other.  She'll still cry on a daily basis.  She still can't stand the sight of baby's who have been born after our little girl.  We haven't seen a lot of our friends in over a year for that exact reason.  We're still seeing a therapist every other week.

Basically, we got pregnant again this fast because it was the reasonable thing to do.  We're not getting any younger, and we didn't want the gap with our son to be too large.  Mentally however, this is way too soon.

And last but not least, and nobody, not even our son, knows of this, it's going to be a boy.  Before we even started with kids, my wife always said she wanted only boys.  After what happened last May, you can see how this is now a double edged sword.  We'll be very happy if we get to keep this second boy, which should work out fine, but there'll forever be a gap in our family, something we didn't get to experience.