Tired

UPDATE:  The ultrasound picture! The longer bean shape is "baby bean" and the balloon looking thing off to the right side is the yoke sac and the cause of my constant nausea... Isn't he or she cute?!

ORIGINAL POST:
I'll be honest, I just haven't felt like blogging lately.

I guess it could be the fact that I'm tired. I'm tired all the time, all day long. I'm tired when I wake up in the morning.

But wake up I do. Then mere seconds upon waking shortly after, the feeling sets in... That feeling of morning sickness. And it seems to be taking all I can do not to throw up. I'm determined not to throw up, at least for as long as possible. Although my mind tries to tell me that "I'll feel better if I just give in" cause I know after being pregnant with E that just isn't true. Even after I throw up, I'm still pregnant and the object of my sickness is still growing inside me, making me feel sick! So I'm just not going to give in...yet.

We had another OB visit on Wednesday! We got to "see" the little bean AND hear a heartbeat!! Highlight of my week so far. I also learned that I'm actually 7wks along which is a week ahead of what they thought the last time. This means hope! For a shortened time of sickness that is...

Now we are looking at the end of October for "baby bean's" arrival!

We did get a picture of new little bean but I just haven't had the energy to get it scanned into the computer, but I'm hoping to get that done tomorrow, even if I have to enlist the help of my honey-do! He is actually pretty willing to help and his help has spoken mountains of love to me the last couple weeks. He just does what he knows helps me out when I'm just not feeling up to doing anything. I love him so much.

The other great part about our appointment on Wednesday was getting some great advice for sickness relief from NP. A couple things she suggested

1. Sipping on flat ginger ale. Never thought of that before, but it helps because the carbonated drinks cause me to burp and that does not help me feel better.

2. She also took me off of the prenatals and just told me to take folic acid, that's the most important thing for the baby to get right now for brain development.

3. Herbal teas, like peppermint or chamomile help as well.

4. And she encouraged me to just eat bland foods, the white foods to be exact. Crackers, rice, noodles, etc. and having just a little bit every two hours really helps.

So far these things have really been helping. The Zofran I took all last pregnancy just hasn't really been doing much this time, so she gave me another prescription to help with nausea. It works. Only side affect is that it makes me drowsy. Not a great combo for someone who is already tired... all the time. So I've been taking in the evening, after baby girl is down for the night. Last night I slept so hard! I woke up groggy but... rested!

And on that note... I'm off to dreamland again. Night, night.

The day we found out

How fitting that we found out we are expecting our second baby on Valentine's day!

Yep, it's true. Our little cupcake just turned 7 months and we are working on another baby. It's so weird to think about for me! I keep thinking Oh yeah, I'm pregnant. But my baby is right here in my arms...

It will certainly be a new journey for us, but isn't being a parent a life long new journey every single day!

So how did it happen? Err, I mean...

How did we find out, or more how did Stud Muffin find out...

Lets just say it had been quite a while since I had my period and I was starting to wonder. I took a couple pregnancy tests after I was about 5 days late. Negative. So I waited a couple more days and took another. Negative.

I decided I didn't want to throw another 8 bucks down the drain so I called the Dr. to see if there was anything to be concerned about. The doctor's office just told me to wait another week or a couple weeks if I wanted to before I took another. They thought that my body might just be adjusting since I only stopped breastfeeding a couple of months ago.

So why I thought one morning, after only 5 days since the last negative, I would just try again. Maybe it's because I was starting to believe that I actually had symptoms: headaches, excessive hunger, frequent urination, feeling tired all. day. long. Each of these things could have been explained as something else besides pregnancy. Or maybe I just had a hunch. But I took another test anyway and turned it upside down on the counter while I took my shower.

When I finished showering I just kept thinking Why did I do that? I don't want to have another negative test. {I should explain briefly here that we weren't trying but we weren't preventing either.} I continued to mentally beat myself up while I picked up the test and turned it over.

Pregnant. Really?! I had to do a double take. I couldn't believe it! I couldn't contain myself from jumping up and down with a huge smile on my face!!

Now what?! Tell my husband right? Well he was at church helping out with youth group. My mom was down stairs with cupcake.... I just prayed that God would help me keep my mouth shut! this secret until I told Stud Muffin.


How should I tell him?! I wanted to make it special but different than last time. Well it would be different no matter what because with cupcake he was the one who looked at the pregnancy test and found out first! This time I had a chance to be creative and as hard as it would be to wait I decided it would mean more.

I would like to say that this particular day just so happened to be on Valentine's day. And we had plans already. Well I had made the plans and I was going to surprise my sweetheart with a night away at a hotel downtown with dinner at a steakhouse {Stud Muffin's favorite!}. I decided that I would wait until dinner time and when we had finished our meal, suggest that we get dessert, you know, "to celebrate."

"Celebrate what?" He would say...

"Celebrate new life!" And if he didn't know what I meant by that then I would just tell him what I meant.

BUT...

That stud muffin, he is a smart man. I couldn't even get my meal ordered without him wanting to know, "Is there something you want to tell me?" Busted. Yeah, he caught on with my "well-done" steak order and not even a glass of wine on our "special day."

Yes. We are having another baby. And we both couldn't be more excited!!