My Flag Day Baby
My third child, Charlie, is going to be 6 years old on June 14th. He will enter 1st grade in August, which, doesn't seem possible. Sometimes I feel as though he was just born. I remember his birth very vividly, as we already had two boys, so having a third was like the "tie breaker". I believe that the best surprise in life is not knowing the sex of a baby before their birth. I've given birth four times and though I had several opportunities to find out the sex with each one, we decided against it. And I don't regret that decision at all, because I still remember the words of the doctor each time. "It's a boy." "It's a boy." It's a boy." "It's a....GIRL!" With c-sections, you can't see what's going on, as they put a curtain up as a barrier between you and the baby because...well, who wants to see all that blood? I wanted to give birth naturally, however, that was not possible for me. My genetic mi...