A pregnant couple in California is looking forward to welcoming two new bundles of joy in the next few weeks.
The boys, separated in age by three weeks, will be the same age most of the year, but they’re not twins.
Partners Toby Fleischman and Lindsay Lanciault became pregnant within weeks of one another after the two decided to expand their family, but a plan for how they’d do it went off course.
The plan was that Fleischman, the older of the two, was to get pregnant first. A few years later, Lanciault would do the same.
But after a year of failed attempts and a miscarriage, Fleischman was unable to conceive. That’s when Lanciault started trying.
"We decided she should still try anyway since I had previously suffered a miscarriage and we just didn't know what the outcome would be," Fleischman told The Huffington Post.
In November, Fleischman learned that she was pregnant. The couple decided that Lanciault, who was ovulating, should try to get pregnant too. In the event that Fleischman had another miscarriage, maybe the couple could count on Lanciault conceiving, they thought.
But Fleischman didn’t have a miscarriage. And within weeks of trying, Lanciault found out that she was pregnant too.
“We both joked, though, this would be the time Lindsay gets pregnant,” Fleischman told HuffPost. “And that’s exactly what happened. So yes, we were prepared for the positive result, but it was still a shock. We were of course so excited and we kind of just laughed. This was the way the universe had it in store for us all along.”
Fleischman is due at the end of July , and Lanciault is due in early August.
“I think we definitely are more understanding and a little more tolerant with each other since we know what the other is going through,” the women told HuffPost, adding that the experience has been “surreal.”
The baby boys will have the same father. Both Fleischman and Lanciault were inseminated at home using sperm from a childhood friend of Lanciault’s.
Read more at The Huffington Post.
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