2/25/09

I must apologize to all of my readers for my lack of posting these last few weeks. The more pregnant I became, the less able I was to concentrate on anything but pain and the anticipation of the arrival of our son.

Well, we had thought he was coming last Tuesday, only to hear it was just bad Braxton Hicks. We then canceled our next prenatal appointment in anticipation of an induction on Monday. The doctor had originally said she would induce me on Friday, but I was one day shy of the required 39 weeks so she moved it to the following Monday.

That wasn’t the news we wanted to hear! I was quite saddened by this, as I kept thinking I was in labor and the wait was over. I wanted to go into labor at a certain time so my doctor could deliver me, but the closer it got to the end of the week the more my hopes for that were fading.

On Friday morning I woke up about two am to go to the bathroom and even thought to myself “Wow, I feel pretty good. All my pain is pretty much gone, there’’s no way this baby is coming soon.”

At 4:30 that same morning I was awoken by a POP and knowing by the results that my water had broken. I was very excited, as was my husband. The day had arrived. After taking a quick shower and getting Grandpa over to our house to watch our other two children, my mother, husband and I took off for the hospital. Actually, we stopped at McDonalds to grab a quick bite, as I knew they wouldn’t get me anything at the hospital.

After waddling into the hospital at 6am, we were on our way. I was having some contractions, but nothing impressive at all. They started Pitocin right away and the contractions started coming more frequently. We all expected the baby to be born fast, as my son was born very quickly after I was admitted. Your second is supposed to be faster, so we all had bets around noon or so, even my nurse.

At around 9am, the nurse came in and let me know that if I wanted an Epidural, I had better get it now. The anesthesiologist would be in a scheduled C-section from 10-11, so if my contractions picked up there would be no relief for a while. I wasn’t keen on getting it so early, so I told her I’d let her know. The second she walked out I started having some harder contractions and had my husband go hunt her down and let her know that we’d get the epidural as soon as they could administer it.

I’m not scared of needles, so I wasn’t to worried about the epidural. My last one, the only thing I remember is that I had the mother of all contractions when they were putting it in, horrible pain. This time was a little different. I could handle the contractions, but the medicine going in was another story. That was horrible this time. I wish I could sugar coat it so someone who finds this page through a google search on epidurals wouldn’t freak out, but I really can’t. It hurt like hell. I was mad at the anesthesiologist, that is, until the medicine kicked in.

Once the medicine kicked in, I couldn’t feel any pain. I could feel the pressure of the contraction but there was no pain associated with it. I was very happy with the results. That was about 9:45am.

From that point forward, it was a waiting game. By noon I was 5cm and 80% effaced. It was moving much slower than anyone expected. They turned the pitocin up constantly it seemed until we hit about 16 out of 20. That’s when things started turning south. The baby wasn’t handling the contractions well, his heartbeat kept dipping pretty low. At 7 cm and 90%, they decided to give me a shot and stop my contractions.

The second they gave me the shot, the contractions stopped. My son was no longer in any distress,
his heart rate was now normal and steady.

I was happy he was ok again, but my labor had been brought to a stand still. After about an hour, tthe doctor gave the ok to start labor back up. The pitocin was cranked up every 15 minutes or so, starting at the lowest setting.

Slowly, labor progressed again. I was waiting for the “pressure”, the need to push. I kept thinking it was coming so the nurse kept checking. 8cm, 90%, it was stuck there. A little while later she checked me again and I was at 9cm. Finally we were close. She went to go call the doctor when an alarm went off in the room. My husband rushed to go get the nurse, turns out my epidural was out of medicine!! Are you kidding me!!! I’ve been in labor all day, no one thought to check the epidural?
So the nurse told my husband there was 2 hours left on the medicine and not to worry…

That’s when they hit…the medicine didn’t have 2 hours left, it was out and I could tell by the contractions that were coming. That baby was sure as hell coming out. The nurse quickly checked me again and I was ready to push, the doctor wasn’t there yet. Medicine gone, me yelling in pain, baby coming, no doctor. Then the anesthesiologist came in quickly and gave me some medicine. Thank god! The medicine worked quickly and the crazy labor pain went away as my lower body was numbed.

In came the doctor, she set up and I began to push. About 5 pushes and my baby boy was born. I heard his cry and cried. He was perfect. 7 lbs, 7oz, 20 inches. It seemed like eternity until they gave him to me to hold. He was just perfect.

More updates later, but I thought I’d get this posted so people know where I’ve been. I’m blogging as he sleeps soundly (as soundly as you can with a 2 yr old screaming).

2/14/09

We are coming down to the wire now, I’m getting more than anxious.

I had another prenatal today. 70% effaced and 1 1/2 cm, not what I was hoping for. She stripped my membranes to see if that would get things moving, but as of this morning it was a no go. She also talked about scheduling an induction. Honestly, I’ve never even thought about it, I just figured he’d come whenever. So we have some thinking to do on that subject. I better think fast, as she could do it ass early as Friday.

The baby has now moved lower and it’s causing me severe pain in my left leg. It’s hard to walk at all now. This is what happened with my first baby, it just started much earlier than the 37th week. He’s so big now that it is very hard to sleep at all. I’m waking up about every hour to roll over, usually gasping in pain when I do from the pain in my pelvis and legs.

The pain is making normal things, like cooking, cleaning and grocery shopping almost impossible. I just sit. My little 22 month old runs wild these days, as I can’t chase him and I can’t carry him around either. I feel bad because I can’t walk to the park with him or play with him on the floor anymore.

The baby has also gotten so low that I can’t go to the bathroom as much as I could before. This is annoying, but expected. As he moves lower and lower, things like that are bound to happen. I mean there’s a kid in there!

But, as I recall, the second that baby comes out, all the pain will be gone! I’ll be left with a perfect baby boy instead of pain.

I’ve been wondering if my first sons crying effects the new baby? He can hear him of course, but I wonder how that effects him. If I heard screaming like that, I wouldn’t want to come out either!

2/5/09
Well, it’s been hectic here, which is why I haven’t been posting on Mommies Home.net very much. Tuesday I had contractions start up, not painful ones, but after hours of them I started to wonder if I was in labor. I tracked them for hours, they were 5-8 minutes apart.

Thinking they were just Braxton Hicks, I drank tons of water and then laid down from about 4 pm on. They kept coming. All night I was up, I’d go to sleep for half hour only to be woken up by contractions. They still weren’t painful though. At about 10:30 yesterday I finally called the doctor and they had me come in for a labor check. No change for me.

But those pesky contractions kept coming. They finally stopped around 7pm last night. The doctor thought I was in early labor, but I’m not so sure. He still has a while to cook, so we’ll see I guess!

1/31/09

We are getting there! Seems like time passed so fast getting to this last month and now it’s just c…r…e..e..p..i..n…g along.

I went to the doctor today and everything is going just fine. The baby is still head down, so I’m happy about that. I have to go see her every week now, as we are in the home stretch.

I’m cleaning more, must be the nesting thing. I’ve cleaned my fridge, which is just weird because I don’t think I’m a big one to do that. I’ll be cleaning the freezer today.

The only thing that isn’t set for the big day is I haven’t packed an outfit for me to come home in. I guess I just can’t decide what ugly post maternity outfit I’d love to wear home with the new baby.

I’m also waiting on an Aimee nursing gown I ordered from Amazon. I’m not sure about this purchase, as it got mixed reviews. Some people love them and some hate them. I e-mailed them directly to figure out what size I should order, once I got their response (within a few hours) I ordered the gown. I was expecting faster shipping, as it still hasn’t been shipped. One thing I’m going to be more prepared for will be breastfeeding. I breastfed my son for about 10 and a half months, so now I know what to expect. Hopefully this nursing gown will live up to my expectations!

Stay tuned!

1/20/09
I think I’ve finally kicked the stomach bug, or whatever it was. I’ve been eating normally the past few days, so that’s good. Now I have my sons head cold, I’m sure that will stay around for weeks and weeks:-)

The baby isn’t as active as he has been, guess he might be getting low on space in there. He’s much more active in the evening than at any other time.

Lately I’ve been filled (yes still) with apprehension on the delivery. I just checked and my little ticker says I have 39 days to go…WHAT??? How did that happen? Time flew by, now I have like a month, you’ve got to be kidding! I’m way worried about the delivery, I hope everything goes well. There is so much that can go wrong you know. I’m worried about the fact that I feel like we are definitely not set up for a baby yet! Ugh. I watched Birth Day (show on Discovery Health) today and they delivered this baby that was on time, no complications, nothing, perfect pregnancy and the baby had Down Syndrome. So I started to worry about that, even though all the tests showed things are fine. What if he won’t breastfeed? What if he’s sick? Lots of worries now.

I’m just hoping all is well in there. I’m off to try and pack a hospital bag, man I’m behind on this baby stuff!

1/12/09
Well, after being sick for 4 days straight, they finally sent me to the hospital for fluids. Turns out that my body decided not to work quite right and the baby wasn’t getting that much food from me. So they sent me in to see if they could jump start my body back to where it should be.

A couple bags of fluids later I felt great, all of the contractions had stopped. So we were hoping I was on the mend.

But, sadly, a day and a half later my stomach was messed up again (and it’s still messed up). They want me to stay on the Bananas, Rice, Applesauce, Toast (B-R-A-T) diet. Ya, seven days on that and I’m about to go insane. There’s not enough applesauce in the world to feed a pregnant woman!

There’s my update, hopefully I can kick this thing fairly soon! Ugh.

1/6/09
I started my 33rd week. I have a prenatal appointment tomorrow, which I’m somewhat looking forward to as my doctor is off her maternity leave. Funny, I missed her! I start going every two weeks now, which seems like a lot, but I’m happy to be checked out.

As strange as it sounds, I’ve begun to become more worried, apprehensive and stressed than I was with my first one. I thought I’d be carefree because I know what to expect, but I’m definitely not. I worry about things like “Three kids might be to much for me”. I saw a woman with the same space of kids as I have (except her baby was born) in the grocery store the other day and it was almost humorous. Her 2 year old was in the basket of the buggy screaming, her baby was in a carrier in the front crying and her 6-7 year old was walking next to the cart begging for a cookie. The mom looked exhausted and you could tell it wasn’t a happy day in that family. I almost cried. I hope I figure out how to do it, my mom did! I never hear her talk about it being hard, so it must be doable!

I’m also worried about labor. Having such a long labor with my son just brings on dread feelings when thinking about this one. The closer it gets the more I can remember the feeling. I begged my doctor to take my son out, ugh, it was not fun. I guess I need to remember that every pregnancy is different and every child is different.

But speaking of “every child is different”, I also worry about the fact that this one may be just like my son. Don’t get me wrong, I love him more than anything in the world, but he cried. He cried a lot. Like all day long, and all night long. My husband would come home and want to immediately leave. It was hard on everyone. A colicky baby is seriously no fun. So I’m worried about this one doing the same, as I know how hard it was on our family.

I guess all these fears are normal, but they are definitely getting worse as the time nears.

Anyhow, things have been doing quite well. I don’t have many complaints, except that sleeping is becoming harder and harder. Rolling over is excruciating, but honestly, that’s one of my only complaints. Oh, and I feel insanely fat, but that’s to be expected I guess. Now that Christmas is over I can get back to my regular diet!

The baby is moving a ton and is feeling quite in there. He is pushing out more and I can see him moving across my stomach many times a day. I have found out that this kid gets startled by loud metallic noises. Forks hitting plates and a metal rack hitting our stove really have that kid jumping. It’s kind of funny because my other son wasn’t phased by anything like that. He didn’t jump or react to anything, this one definitely does.

On my little countdown ticker it says 53 days to go, so here’s to a great 53 days (give or take a few weeks!)

12/10/08
I had my most recent prenatal visit yesterday. Things look fine I guess. I had my glucose test and my anemia test, so I’m awaiting the results of those tests. I do have a suspicion that I will have gestational diabetes. My sister had it when she was pregnant and this pregnancy has been filled with sugar cravings I have no control over. While I shouldn’t worry, I still seem to. I should have the test results today or tomorrow.

Other than that, I was SHOCKED when I got on the scale and saw the weight of 160 come up. I guess I knew I was close to that, but honestly it didn’t really hit me until I got on that stupid scale. That’s about a 30 pound gain. It made me want to eat salads for the rest of my pregnancy! Sadly, as I’ve said before, when I try to control what I eat it ends up making me eat a whole pizza (actually I shared it with my son for lunch today, but he’s 1 and a half so I’d be lying if I said he ate half and I ate half).

I have this picture up on my desk of my husband and I on our honeymoon. I’m straight beautiful. I was tan, I had nice muscles, I fit into my size 5’s…Ugh, 160, it’ll take some work to get back to that again (if ever). I’m looking forward to feeling as healthy as I did right before I got pregnant. I was eating a very healthy diet and exercising about once a day. Now I’m lucky if I can catch my breathe going up the stairs, much less walking around the lake!

Actually, it’s off to go walk to get the first grader from school (which every time I do that contractions start up and it ends up hurting, but I was told to exercise so that will be the exercise for the day)!

12/3/08
After 28 weeks of pregnancy bliss, it all fell down today when I woke up, basically unable to walk. I started out my 3rd trimester in some major pain. I can’t put that much weight on my left leg at all and now I can’t seem to find a position, ANY position, that makes the pain go away. I was having some other issues, so I ended up going in to be evaluated, as I wondered if maybe my water had broken…

Lucky me, there’s nothing that can be done for my back pain. We are thinking it’s Sciatica, which I didn’t have with my son. My son gave me a whole different set of pains, including my hip popping out of place on a regular basis. I couldn’t walk with him either and wore a brace on my back for the whole end of my pregnancy. Honestly though, it was nothing like this.

This is quite the pain. I hope it eases, as I’m pretty sure I can’t take three months of this. On a brighter note, my water didn’t break. We had to check though, as my day seemed to be going worse and worse.

11/25/08
Well, I haven’t updated in a while, but some things are starting to happen so I figured I’d post! We haven’t taken any belly shots in the past few weeks, guess we’ve been to busy to think about it. I’m in my 27th week now. The baby is moving a lot, kicking like crazy. I have a feeling he’ll be bigger than my son, but don’t women always think that!

My back is hurting a lot at night now and Braxton Hicks have started up. My husband says I had them with my last pregnancy for the last 3 months (I don’t recall), so I guess I’m on schedule. I had a call into the doctor last night, as the contractions were getting a little harder and they kept coming. She told me to lay down and rest…to bad she told me that when both kids were in bed, why not when I really need it, like when my son decides to throw all his legos down the stairs! Anyhow, I laid down and they went away.

I’m getting big now, my body seems to be blowing up like a balloon. I feel like I’m just all swollen, just way bigger than I my internal self image is. As I recall, from about this point on I no longer will think the pregnancy look is a good look, as I feel so big.

Trying to watch what I’m eating isn’t working too well. I do good at breakfast, but then lunch ends up being a pig out fest, as I’m so hungry I just keep eating. I’m good for dinner, but then I’m hungry before bed again. I swear my belly expands with every single mouthful. I’ve tried to limit my food, it just makes me more hungry, so that’s not going to work. I love when the doctor says “just eat some fruit”. Well, if I had any desire for fruit, I’d eat tons of it. But I crave carbs, bread and cereal. Eggs and cheese!

All is well though and I’ve been blessed with a wonderful pregnancy thus far! I’ll keep you updated.
11/12/08
Well, I’ve officially hit it. I’ve hit the time in my pregnancy when I’m so hungry I could eat my dog. Scares me really, as I’m supposed to be “watching” my weight. So I was wondering how in the world I could be this hungry…

From what I’ve read, it’s that your body needs the additional energy and nutrients for the growing baby inside of you. I’m hoping that’s it, as I can honestly just eat and eat and it would never be enough! I ate about 5 meals today and I’m still hungry.

I’ve also heard that the change in hormones can cause a dramatic change in our hunger and therefore appetite, just like PMS does for some women.

All I know is it will be hard to watch my weight if I keep thinking about food as much as I do…does anyone have an extra dog??

11/8/08

Well, I’m just finishing up my 23rd week. I’m starting to feel like I’m getting big now, can’t tie my shoes really well, can’t bend down as easily, my son is starting to walk more than being carried. The little bean in my belly is sure jumping, yesterday I saw him go back and forth across my belly, making big waves on my skin. I love that. I’m one of those women that will just look down at the belly and smile until it stops, I love it so much! Everything else is going great. My back hurts a little at night, but that’s because I’m waking up on my back! Anyhow, no complaints here for week 23.

10/28/08
Wow, I’m bad about keeping this up. Oh well. Here’s some recent belly pics…
22 weeks

21 weeks

20 weeks

19 weeks

So an update of what’s going on… We had our ultrasound on October 13th and decided to find out what it was. Good thing he was showing us everything and could see his little penis poking out. We were positive it was a girl, absolutely positive. Well, guess we were wrong.

We also found out that my placenta is up front, which is why I couldn’t feel the baby. Since the ultrasound though, I’ve been able to feel a lot more. He’s acting more like his brother did, moving around all the time, kicking actually harder than his brother did. He’s making his presence known and I’m quite happy about that. I was getting worried. Now he kicks so hard you can see my stomach bulge out.

One thing I’m finding is that he is getting in some bad positions, which actually hurt me. My first son never did this, so I’m quite surprised by this. It’s not as fun as it sounds. I have to try to move him myself. Seems his little personality is coming through already and all I have to say is that I’m in deep trouble!

I got my first cold for this pregnancy, lucky considering how sick I was with my last one. This cold has lasted about 2 weeks now, with there just being draining I can’t seem to shake. Thank god my doctor is letting me take afrin, as nothing else is working at all to help me breathe.

Other than that, I have nothing to complain about. My back is still doing fine, my hips are both still in their sockets and I’m still ok on weight gain. I can only hope the rest of the labor goes as well.

10/6/08
Here’s some more belly pics! Looks like week 18 was a form changer! I’m taking the 19 week one tonight, so I’ll get that one up.

18 weeks

17 Weeks

9/16/2008
Wow, I haven’t updated in a while! So I had another prenatal yesterday. All is well with the baby (I hope). Heart beat was at 140, same as before. I was happy they found it right away. They took the last round of blood for the down syndrome test, so that should be in in around 3 weeks she said. I’m doing good weight wise, only up 8 pounds, which she was very happy with. (I don’t know how I feel about it, I had just gotten back in all my prepregnancy clothes:-( ) Anyhow, I asked her about peeing every 30 minutes, she said it was normal because with your second the baby sits lower and is currently right on my bladder. Oh goody.

I also talked with her about “ambivalence”, which again is common with second babies. I have a one and a half year old to chase around, I don’t have as much time to sit and day dream about those little feet:-)

Anyhow, here are some belly pics that I keep forgetting to put up:

16 Weeks

15 Weeks

14 Weeks

8/24/2008
Well I got another ultrasound on August 19th! See pic below…

So this ultrasound was to help determine if the baby had down syndrome or not. They measure the space between the spine and, um, something else that I don’t remember. Anyhow, everything looked fine. I met with the doctor briefly and told her about my loss of appetite. She said it’ll come back. Everything seemed fine. The baby was very active, bouncing around, sucking its thumb, crazy kid. My husband said the baby reminded him of our son, which if anyone knows our son then God help us. One is definitely enough of that to go around!!

I still feel great. I’m gaining weight, way faster than I thought. (Doesn’t help that my wonderful husband bought me a dozen of my FAVORITE Krispy Creme doughnuts and they were all for me!!) Here’s a pic of the 12 week belly…

Overall I still feel great, little tired, but it’s manageable. I’ve been having a little bit of lower back pain but I don’t know if that is from being pregnant or the prenatal yoga, I’m rusty ya know. No weird cravings really (I’m still into the cake and muffins though) I wish milk was calorie free, because I drink a ton of that. Anyhow, all is well on the prego front, I’ll keep you posted!

8/13/2008
Nothing much has been happening. My appetite has just recently increased. One day I swear I just ate all day long, did nothing else. I’m having to use a pillow to prop up my belly at night now, as it’s just really uncomfortable without it. Six more days until the next ultrasound, so we’re looking forward to that! So here’s a 11 week belly pic:

8/1/2008
I had my prenatal appointment on July 29th. They did an ultrasound and I got to see the baby. He/she has legs! It wasn’t moving to much, but it kicked a couple of times and that was cool to see.

The doctor said everything looked great. I have to stop rollerblading, which I knew was coming. Now I’m just supposed to walk, do yoga or palates, and swim. Definitley not as much of a workout, I can tell you that much. I had gained 2 pounds, not to bad considering my last pregnancy!!!

I did talk to the doctor about using Splenda, as I use it everyday. He said it’s fine if used only a little, but he said I shouldn’t be drinking diet pop or having artificial sugar anyhow. I also talked with him about the fact that I keep losing my breath when I go up the stairs (or pretty much anywhere). He said I’m fine and just chalked it up to being prego.

I opted to do the down syndrome test again this pregnancy. Now they take an ultrasound, so I get another ultrasound in like 3 weeks. So here’s a belly pic at 9 1/2 weeks and the beans ultrasound.

7/17/2008
Well I had my first prenatal appointment on Friday the 11th. I was expecting an ultrasound, so the hubby took off work to go. Turns out we waited in the office for two hours before the doctor came in. She was delivering a baby and her staff just never told anyone.

Surprisingly, my doctor is 23 weeks pregnant herself! It’s her first baby and it was quite funny to listen to her talk about her horrid first trimester, I guess she had terrible morning sickness. Supposedly she’ll be back from maternity leave in time to deliver my baby!

Anyhow, the appointment was uneventful. She did an exam, that was it. She said it was too early to do an ultrasound, but I have that coming up on the 29th of this month.

How do I feel? Great I guess. I don’t have any morning sickness (although I looked and my morning sickness didn’t start until week 9 with my son, so we’ll see). I’m eating much better than last time, tons of fruit and veggies. I’m trying to limit bread, pasta and hamburgers!

One thing has occurred in the past few days, my belly popped. I have lost weight, so I know I’m not getting fat, my stomach just suddenly popped! My pants are all unbuttoned now (I’m waiting for my belly band to arrive). Anyhow, it’s kinda nice, because I LOVE the belly, but kinda not nice because it happened SO quickly. I even cleaned myself out because I read online it could just be me being backed up, but no, it’s my belly…

I have been exercising everyday, at least half hour of cardio and some light resistance training (not to mention carrying around my 1 year old). I’ve been rollerblading around the lake while pushing the stroller, I quite like that.

I’m doing great though, trying to catch a nap when my son naps. Today I got a 2 hour nap in! Until next time…

7/7/2008
Alright, maybe I’m loony, but I took another pregnancy test. I have good reason though!!! I’m not having any morning sickness, nothing, no pregnancy signs at all. So I was talking to my mom and she said if I had another test I should take it. So I did, and it of course said I was pregnant. I had to check! Well, the first doctor’s appointment is only 4 days away, so that’s not to long to wait!

I can’t remember when the first ultrasound is, I wish it was sooner rather than later. Anyhow, thought I’d write on me being so worried I used up another test. Sometimes I make myself laugh…

7/6/2008
Nothing much has happened lately. I’m hoping everything is alright, as I’ve had no more hint of morning sickness at all. With my son immediately had an insanely painful chest, it was a pretty good indicator that I was prego, but not this time.

I guess this go around I’ll be comparing everything to when I was pregnant with my son. Case in point, I took Juice Plus every day when I was pregnant with my son. This time around I can’t afford it, so I’m worried that this baby won’t be as healthy. There are so many babies born whose parents don’t take supplements like that, they turn out fine. I think I attribute my son being so healthy to that, even though I have no evidence to prove that at all. I’ll just have to eat better than I did with my son!

7/1/2008
Well a few things have happened in the past few days. First we went camping for the first time with our one year old. He did ok. Being pregnant on a camping trip wasn’t to terribly much fun. It seemed I didn’t drink enough water because I was afraid I’d have to pee in an outhouse all night! I also have started getting queasy at breakfast, usually when I don’t eat. So that was a little bit of a hassle, dealing with the beginnings of morning sickness.

The big thing happened yesterday, when I came down with a stomach bug. Don’t know what happened, but I had diarrhea for 24 hours, pretty much straight. I finally went to the doctor this morning and she told me that my metabolism had shifted so quickly that my body was actually beginning to eat itself, that it was dipping into my fat stores for fuel. While I would usually say “hey that’s a good thing right?” I had to worry about my little pea in there. I was dehydrated as well (oh ya think).

I was told to do the regular bananas, rice, bread, applesauce diet for the next two days. So I’ve been working on that today, trying to get my fluids up with pedialite (tastes horrid) and Gatorade. My mom was nice enough to watch my son for the day, as I’m still really weak and haven’t gotten any sleep really. So I’m hoping the pea in there is ok, don’t know what I had but it couldn’t have been good!

6/27/2008

Well, we are finally pregnant! We found out on June 22nd and couldn’t be happier! It only took 2 months to finally get pregnant, we are very lucky. We went to drop our daughter off for the summer and on our trip I fully expected to be seeing my monthly friend. Nope, didn’t show up. So in the middle of watching Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix with my husband, I told him I’d be right back. I quickly and quietly went upstairs and took a test. The second I peed on that stick it turned positive, very strong positive. I went downstairs and told my husband that we need to think about closing our loft off. When he said why I told him because we’d have another baby in there soon.

So we are both very happy. It’s early in the game, so we are very cautious. I had my first bought of morning sickness last night, ick. MORNING sickness, not 9:45 at night sickness! I was happy to have it though!