The Butterfly Weeds [Taylor Swift Adoption Story]

GLADIOLUS

Gladiolus flowers, also called "sword lilies," are the birth flower for the month of August! Because of their association with gladiators, the flower represents strength and moral integrity. They also mean faithfulness, remembrance, and mysteriousness.

One Week Later
April 4th; 2024
Taylor Swift's Point of View
The babies are supposedly the size of bananas and now I'm strangely craving a banana. Does that make me a cannibal? I don't know...anytime I look at or mention a food, the first thing I think of is just eating it. We decided to go forward with learning the sex of the babies. We aren't going to have some huge gender reveal party. We want it to just be us because it honestly feels more special that way. My bump though, is super noticeable. The only way I could hide it is if I was wearing an extremely oversized hoodie. I've started to rely on maternity clothes and I do need help putting them on sometimes with drives me up the fucking walls. It's mostly socks. Fucking. Socks. We also decided that if the ultrasound goes well, we will finally announce the pregnancy. I am a little excited to see everyone lose their shit. We have some videos and cute selfies from my camera roll I think that everyone would die over. I recorded the cats' reactions to me telling them I was pregnant I couple of weeks ago. None of them cared but Benji made the cutest face. I think I'm in over overwhelming part of the pregnancy where I document everything and think it's all adorable. What's not adorable is how long I've been waiting for my OB/GYN. Does this woman not realize my bladder doesn't last long?

The door opens and I see the doctor finally walk in. "Sorry about the wait!"

"Oh, it's fine." Little does she know I would stab her if I could...okay damn maybe these pregnancy hormones are getting to me.

"And I see we have Dad here as well." She gestures over to Joe who is sitting on a chair by the wall.

"Today we can find out the sexes?"

"As long as I get a good image, then you'll find out what you'll be having. If you could pull up your shirt that would be great and then I'm gonna put this gel on you."

I pull up my shirt and she squirts some of the gel on my stomach which is chillier than expected. Joe stands up and walks over to me. He grabs one of my hands and kisses it. He puts my hand back down but he continues to hold it.

"Okay, I'm going to start up the ultrasound." The doctor begins to start the machine and puts the transducer on my stomach. The waves of black and grey lines start to appear on the screen. This time, it looks much different. I could actually see what seemed to be the form of a baby and not a small peanut-looking dot.

"Joe, look at them. They've grown so much." It's common sense but I'm still so excited.

"Both have good sounding hearts. Both are good length, I'm liking the bone structure...no brain abnormalities. As of now, they seem to be developing well. You got two perfectly healthy babies on you. I'm guessing you wanna know the sexes?"

"Yes, yes." I cheer a bit. Joe simply nods, actually keeping his chill.

"Okay, so baby A is...a girl."

"A girl? Oh my god, a girl. That's amazing! We're gonna have another girl!" I exclaim in excitement looking at Joe.

"Hun, calm down. I'm excited too but take it down a notch." He smiles and we both turn back to the screen.

"Baby B is also a girl. You got yourself a pair of baby girls."

"They're both girls?" Joe asks doing a double check.

"Yep. I'm absolutely positive of it."

"That's amazing!" Joe finally joins in with my excitement and kisses me.