Yuck

So the past few days the morning sickness has hit in all its glory, yuck.  Last night I could barely stand getting out of bed and today is really rough too.  Thankfully I am 10.5 weeks and so the worst of the morning sickness should start to ebb in the next week or two.  I am really hoping that since I didn't get morning sickness until week 7 that this baby is just producing less hormones and that it will lessen faster than previous babies and go away sooner.  That is the hope, but it will probably be the opposite and leave later than before, boo.  I guess time will tell.

In fabulous news, no spotting now for 2 weeks, yippee!  I feel like it has truly gone away now and I am feeling a lot more confident in all of my pregnancy symptoms (I just had to unbutton my pants, they were too tight sitting down) and of course the cursed morning sickness.  I was joking with my husband last night that I wish I could go into a sleep induced coma and wake up in a month feeling better.  He stated that I would probably be sad to miss out on so much but honestly, when you feel like crap, nothing is very fun anyway, ha ha. 

Well, weight gain is still going well.  I have probably gained 5 pounds and I am almost out of the first trimester.  So glad to be keeping it under control this time instead of gaining 11 like I did last time.

Getting Better

Tomorrow morning will mark 1 week with no spotting, I am excited!  I went to see the doctor again yesterday since he wants to see me once a week if I spot and since I haven't had any spotting this week, he told me I could come in again in 4 weeks if the spotting is truly over!  Yay!

The baby is still measuring great and showed a week further along in its progress than last week which is awesome.  I am also taking some herbalife nutritional supplements and I believe they are helping with my morning sickness.  I am also trying very hard to eat well in order to make this 1st trimester more bearable. 

With my last baby, I easily gained 10 pounds in the first trimester but I am almost 9.5 weeks along and have only gained around 4.5 pounds.  Eating good food and giving this baby the proper nutrition so that I feel well is what I'm trying to achieve.  I want this whole experience to be a good one, being the last :)

Hope to see some friends on this blog soon!

Hope

So, I haven't been great at doing weigh ins for the past few weeks because my mind has been somewhere else this past while.  The reason is I'm pregnant with my 4th child :)  However, this time around has not been a cake walk.  In fact, it's been quite the opposite with several scares and days of total anxiety.  Here, let me share my story.

I found out just over 4 weeks ago that I was expecting.  I was really surprised because I had taken a test a few days before that has always shown me early and it was negative.  But, that time of the month hadn't come yet so I took another test and just left it to do some cleaning and when I came back it was positive and I was truly shocked!

So, with all of my other pregnancies I have gotten morning sickness on the first day of week 6.  This time it came and went and no morning sickness.  Plus, all of my other symptoms lessened and I didn't really feel pregnant so I was worried about miscarriage and spotting.  Well, the dreaded day came just over a week ago Sunday, the 3rd.  I woke up Sunday morning and started spotting.  I immediately thought I was going to lose this baby with no other obvious symptoms and still no morning sickness (6 days late).  Of course being a Sunday, my only options were to wait until Monday or go into the ER.  I called the on call doctor and he told me either choice would be reasonable, but he also said if I was going to miscarry then it had already happened and going to the ER would be a long wait and expensive.  So, I decided to wait.

Talk about the worst day of my life.  I tried calling Justin over and over and he wouldn't answer.  I finally called him while he was in church and he finally answered and immediately went home and started to research miscarriage since we were sure it was coming.  Well, the spotting only lasted about 5 minutes (I know, not long but I still didn't know what was going on).  I stayed home from church in case anything started to happen and my sister came over to watch my kids and I took a nap since I was so tired from the stress and not sleeping well the night before.  I woke up and felt fine so she left and then my Mom came from Wales, UT.  She helped me with the kids and we even went to the McMurray Super Bowl Party but I wasn't in much of a party mood.

We came home and Timmy was complaining of a bad sore throat and Allie was coughing so hard, it was rough.  I let my Mom take care of my kids during the night and in the morning and I woke up to Timmy complaining about his throat and having a high fever.  I called my doctor and they told me 2 PM, are you kidding me?  Uggh.  This was however just the appt line for the whole bldg of doctor's so I finally got ahold of my personal doctor's office at 9:15 and they told me to just come in.  I went in and surprise, the baby was fine!  I still had so much anxiety that I couldn't really relax until later that day when it finally sunk in.  I think I was still just worried that something was still wrong.

Then Timmy went to the doctor and had strep throat, yippee.

Well, it was very helpful having my Mom there and Justin was so surprised when I called him with the good news.  On Tuesday I finally got the blessed/cursed morning sickness.  Not too bad, but there just the same thank goodness.Then I started spotting again on Thursday morning so back in I went.  Another ultrasound showed the baby was good and had grown again, right on track.  The doctor told me to take it easy and not stress too much since both times had shown doing fine.  Mikey also woke up on Thursday with strep throat and ear infection so this made 4 doctor visits during the week.  Well, Friday morning I spotted all morning into the afternoon but I tried not to worry.  Justin came home that afternoon and I took a long nap.

I went in again on Monday morning and once again, baby has shown growth and I could even see a division of head and body, pretty fun!  I asked my doctor about my chances of this baby making it full term and he said my chances are good although with bleeding, there is always a slight chance of miscarriage.  He also told me to come in weekly as long as I keep spotting.

So, I am trying to keep my life as stress free as possible and not even worry about gaining weight since I can't exercise much and I am starving all the time.  I have seen so many cute pregnant women lately who keep their cute skinny faces the entire time and I just poof up at the slightest weight gain, lame.  Oh well, here's to a healthy baby and a poofy pregnancy face.  I'll get my face back by the end of year maybe :)  Starting weight the day I found out was 139.8, just under 140 lol.  Today I think I'm around 143 so up about 3 pounds in 4 weeks.

Baby is due September 23rd.

Friday Morning Weigh In

So I was just sitting here on the computer looking up some things for my husband and I just realized I completely forgot to weigh in yesterday.  Whoops!  I guess I'll check in next week, lol!