Goodness gracious! Only 9 weeks along and I already have a belly!! I was reading different things and I guess this is totally normal since your abdominal muscles are much more lax your 2nd (and so on) pregnancies. I think I'm just fat, but Joe reassures me that it's just because I'm pregnant. Thank heavens for a wonderful & reassuring husband. One who CERTAINLY doesn't mind that my boobs are now bigger too! Thankfully I haven't been nearly as nauseous as I was with Tyler, but when it comes, it doesn't like to let up! I have only had 3 days of puking so far (which I am NOT complaining about!) but when it's one of those days, it tends to really knock me out for the whole day. Today I threw up right before breakfast, but kept breakfast down. Then I just threw up a few minutes ago (about 3:30 pm). So maybe today I'm just vomiting because I get too hungry... which is entirely possible. Speaking of hungry, that is the BIGGEST difference! I am eating like a HORSE!! I can eat an entire meal, and then just an hour or so later, I'm not just hungry, I'm STARVING! It drives me nuts! At first I tried to hold off because I had JUST eaten, but the hard part is that if I hold off, then I just go into nausea & puking. So I end up eating 3 meals and then 3 big snacks a day. I really need to go stock up on fruits & veggies so at least I'm eating HEALTHY snacks. Right now it's more cookies & fudge that have been so readily available during the holidays!
I also just got a huge box of maternity clothes in the mail today that I had ordered from eBay. I am so excited! They are mostly all either Old Navy or Gap maternity clothes... and those brands aren't cheap! There is a pair of Old Navy maternity shorts that I am SO excited about... they are SO comfortable! It's funny how I'm suddenly excited about things like maternity clothes & baby names. :-D
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Sunday, December 19, 2010
It's official!
Well, we're expecting!! Joe and I made the decision at the beginning of November that we were no longer not trying to get pregnant. We weren't exactly trying, but if it happened... it happened. Well, it happened! And it certainly didn't take long!
I started having my suspicions sometime around the 3rd week of November, but I had taken a pregnancy test, and it showed negative. We went to my mom's for Thanksgiving and the day before we left to go back home, I was 3 days late this time so I decided to take another pregnancy test. STILL NEGATIVE! I was very frustrated at this point. I went in to get a blood pregnancy test done on November 30th, and even THAT was inconclusive! My hCG levels were only at 6.6 and a level 5 is considered not pregnant. So they wanted to wait 48 hours to re-do the test. They said that as long as my levels were going up, they could view it as positive. I guess your hCG levels are suppose to double about every 48 hours. I went in again on December 2nd to have my blood drawn again. I got a call later that evening with the results. Since my level was a 6.6 just a few days earlier, I figured that as long as I was around a 20, that should be enough of an increase to call it what it is. They told me that my level was now at a 41, but that they still weren't sure and that I needed to come BACK in to get my blood drawn AGAIN in a week! WHAT?! My levels go from 6.6 to 41, and you're not SURE?! So I went home and took matters into my own hands. I took my 5th pregnancy test.... this one made it very clear. I'M PREGNANT!! I did go back in to get my blood drawn on the 8th of December just to be sure that my numbers were still going up. At that point, my numbers were at 1,700... definitely pregnant!
We told half of Joe's family at Tyler & Jillian's combined birthday party on December 4th. I had made shirts for them that said "I'm going to be a big sister" and "I'm going to be a big brother AGAIN!". I wrapped the shirts and had the kids open them up at the same time. I had the video camera ready & I'm SO glad I did! Everyone's reactions were priceless! It took them a bit to figure out why we were so excited & video taping the kids getting shirts, but once they read them, they were THRILLED! Then we told my side of the family when we went down for the basic training graduation for Tim, my brother. They were all SUPER excited as well! My mom couldn't be ANY happier that she gets to be a grandma again! She's ready for another baby to love on! Then just this past weekend (the 18th), we told the rest of Joe's family. We had to tell Joe's mom over the phone because she was too sick to attend the King Christmas Party, but she was absolutely tickled pink. She has been saying for quite awhile now, "You have a yours, and a mine.... now you just need an ours!" So it's official.... we now have yours, mine, & ours. :-)
I started having my suspicions sometime around the 3rd week of November, but I had taken a pregnancy test, and it showed negative. We went to my mom's for Thanksgiving and the day before we left to go back home, I was 3 days late this time so I decided to take another pregnancy test. STILL NEGATIVE! I was very frustrated at this point. I went in to get a blood pregnancy test done on November 30th, and even THAT was inconclusive! My hCG levels were only at 6.6 and a level 5 is considered not pregnant. So they wanted to wait 48 hours to re-do the test. They said that as long as my levels were going up, they could view it as positive. I guess your hCG levels are suppose to double about every 48 hours. I went in again on December 2nd to have my blood drawn again. I got a call later that evening with the results. Since my level was a 6.6 just a few days earlier, I figured that as long as I was around a 20, that should be enough of an increase to call it what it is. They told me that my level was now at a 41, but that they still weren't sure and that I needed to come BACK in to get my blood drawn AGAIN in a week! WHAT?! My levels go from 6.6 to 41, and you're not SURE?! So I went home and took matters into my own hands. I took my 5th pregnancy test.... this one made it very clear. I'M PREGNANT!! I did go back in to get my blood drawn on the 8th of December just to be sure that my numbers were still going up. At that point, my numbers were at 1,700... definitely pregnant!
We told half of Joe's family at Tyler & Jillian's combined birthday party on December 4th. I had made shirts for them that said "I'm going to be a big sister" and "I'm going to be a big brother AGAIN!". I wrapped the shirts and had the kids open them up at the same time. I had the video camera ready & I'm SO glad I did! Everyone's reactions were priceless! It took them a bit to figure out why we were so excited & video taping the kids getting shirts, but once they read them, they were THRILLED! Then we told my side of the family when we went down for the basic training graduation for Tim, my brother. They were all SUPER excited as well! My mom couldn't be ANY happier that she gets to be a grandma again! She's ready for another baby to love on! Then just this past weekend (the 18th), we told the rest of Joe's family. We had to tell Joe's mom over the phone because she was too sick to attend the King Christmas Party, but she was absolutely tickled pink. She has been saying for quite awhile now, "You have a yours, and a mine.... now you just need an ours!" So it's official.... we now have yours, mine, & ours. :-)
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