Both Eliza and Ben were taken aback by their pregnancy, but, at the same time, they were both overjoyed. The two were both family-oriented and wanted to have children, although they disagreed on how many. Eliza has said that she wanted to have as many children as she could, while Ben was going full nuclear family (two kids, one boy, one girl), so they were happily surprised when this happened.
The Couple’s First Child Is Born
Little Charlie was born in 2016 and the couple was over-the-moon to welcome young Charlie into the world. The little girl was the spitting image of her father complete with those magnetic blue eyes and those chubby cheeks. Eliza’s pregnancy with Charlie was problem-free and she didn’t think that anything out of the ordinary would happen after that, but she was wrong.
While the new parents were enjoying taking care of and spending time with their first child, it was only two months after little Charlie was born that the couple got the shock of their life. While Eliza was breastfeeding Charlie, she put her faith in the old wives’ tale that women can’t get pregnant while nursing their children. But the couple soon found this out, which busted that myth forever.
Pregnant Again!
No one could believe it at first. Eliza even said that she took four different pregnancy tests to make sure that she wasn’t pregnant, but, in the back of her mind, she kind of knew. What mother wouldn’t know? She has even said that she woke up one morning and knew she was pregnant because she felt like she “got hit with a baseball bat”, but how exactly did all this happen?
Eliza’s method of contraception after her first pregnancy was the fact (or far from the fact) that women cannot get pregnant when they are breast-feeding. Eliza soon found out that this was nowhere near the truth. But it took a while before the couple realized what exactly they were dealing with.
What The Couple Soon Found Out
The couple was so sure of the fact that they weren’t pregnant so soon after Charlie’s birth that they didn’t believe their doctor’s diagnosis. Neither did they believe the myriad of pregnancy tests that they took, which all said that Eliza wasn’t pregnant until this happened.
Some Motherly Advice
A first-time mom can become overwhelmed by all the work that goes into caring for and raising one child, imagine what it must have been like to realize that another one was on the way! Eliza has said that she struggled the first few months with Charlie and that she had to put aside her pre-pregnancy beliefs, which is a piece of advice that she got from her own mother, but she also turned to this unlikely source for strength and inspiration.
Eliza turned to her other source of strength, her friends, as she was struggling to accept the fact that she might be pregnant again. Many of her other friends had children, but none of them could understand what was going on with Eliza, as neither of them had gone through what she was going through. It was during this time that this started to happen.
“Maybe He’s a New Doctor”
Eliza and Ben decided it was time to see a doctor about their potential new pregnancy. They went to an OBGYN and asked him if it was possible that Eliza could be pregnant so soon after the birth of her first child. The doctor not only said “yes” but confirmed the fact that Eliza was indeed pregnant. But the couple still wasn’t convinced! They thought that the doctor was new and didn’t know what he was talking about, so they did this instead.
Twins!
The couple’s original doctor not only confirmed to them that Eliza was pregnant, but that she was pregnant with twins. Eliza recalls Ben’s reaction, which was “his face turned white”. How could the couple be pregnant with twins so soon after their first daughter was born, six weeks to be exact? The answer was quite simple.
6 Kilograms of Baby
Just like she did with her first-born, Charlie, Eliza took to social media to track the ups and downs of being a new mom, as well as a mom pregnant with twins. She openly admitted that it was tough, “I couldn’t walk from the car to the house without having to stop at the halfway mark for a breather…
Standing was uncomfortable, sitting was uncomfortable, laying down – that was uncomfortable and God forbid I dropped something on the floor – it was dead to me.” But she still found time to do things like this.
The Family Grows
After all the pain and struggle, Eliza and Ben welcomed two new additions to their brood only three weeks after their first daughter Charlie was born. This time the couple was blessed with two, identical twin boys, Jack and Wolfe.
Even though it was tough carrying around all that baby, Eliza had a problem-free pregnancy and delivery, but there was someone else who was surprised by the new twins.
Like Two New Dolls
Eliza and Ben weren’t the only ones who were excited about bringing home Jack and Wolfe. Big sister Charlie was also happy, and, maybe a little confused, about the fact that she had “two new dolls” to play with.
While all the kids got along, there were times when, according to Eliza, Charlie innocently started, “headbutting them in an attempt to ‘give them a kiss’ — trying to poke their eyes out, sticking her grubby little fingers in their mouths”. But there was another major change that the couple wasn’t expecting.
Finally Married
You may not remember that Eliza and Ben got pregnant after only three months of dating. Then, when Charlie was born, the twins came, so naturally, the couple didn’t even have time to get married. But, in 2019, the couple finally tied the knot with all three of their kids in attendance.
What was the part about Eliza and Ben’s story that you liked the most? Do you think you could cope with having three kids within a year? Let us know what you think in the comments section below. Things changed quickly for Eliza and Ben. They got pregnant very fast and suddenly had a little family. Then they got pregnant again and had an even bigger family. But the size of their family only goes to show how much love there is in their family and that they couldn’t wait to make it bigger.
