Life Update 2.0

Hey babes! 🫶🏽 it has been about a year and a half since my last blog & since then, so much has changed. Let's rewind back to my previous blog; in October of 2022, I introduced my boyfriend Arian to my website. I took a trip to Peru in November to celebrate my 25th birthday. I arrived in Rhode Island the first week of December, and on the last day of 2022, I found out I was pregnant. My whole life changed in 3 minutes; even though, at the time, I was 25 years old, nothing could fully prepare me for that type of life-changing news. My first trimester consisted of googling every symptom I had and sleepless nights due to all the hormonal and mental changes. I did get lucky and barely suffered from any morning nausea, but the overwhelming fatigue was something I had never experienced in my life, and it was very eye-opening. The second trimester flew by and was by far the easiest trimester. I had energy again, my skin was thriving, and finally had an appetite. I had my gender reveal in April and found out I was going to have a little boy 💙. Overall, I had a great pregnancy with barely any problems, only up until the end. I went to my ob-gyn for my 36-week ultrasound, and they noticed my baby weighed smaller than expected; I was rushed to the hospital to get induced. A few days before that, I had gotten a severe cold with fevers and body aches; for safety purposes, they did a COVID test and to my luck, I did have COVID. My boyfriend Arian and I could not leave our room, nor could we have any visitors. It sucked in so many ways because I felt robbed in front of that labor and delivery experience of having people visit me and bringing balloons, food, etc, and celebrating the birth of my baby with family and friends. The anxiety came through so early that I felt unprepared and did not expect my labor and delivery to be like this. I was far from being dilated, so they gave me this pill to provoke contractions. As the hours passed, my baby's heart kept dropping; he couldn't handle the induction pills. For the sake of our baby, we decided that I had to get a C-section. On August 10th of 2023, at 10:42 am, my baby boy Ariel Alexander Cortez arrived into this world with only 4 lbs. My son Ariel has been the biggest blessing in my life, and I can't imagine my world without him. Thank you for taking the time to read this blog. I have been so distant; mom life took over, but now I feel like I'm at a place where I can juggle and add blogging back into my life. I can't wait to start my blogging journey again and bring you guys along into my new life. With that being said, I will be adding more content that is for new mommies. Thank you, babes, for reading this blog; stay tuned for more blogs.

With Love,

LC ✨