24 weeks

I meant to do a 20 week post, but that never happened. So I guess technically this is a 20/24 week post.

Anyway, I have been feeling much better. Even cut down to 2 zofran a day! I still need 3 unison/b6 a day, but often forget since I cut back on zofran and that has thrown my schedule off. When I do forget, I ended up not feeling so good. Nothing like how awful I felt before though! I am able to get out and about, but get tired easily and if I do too much, I end up feeling nauseous and need to take it easy the following day. Still a huge improvement though and I will take what I can get.

I am feeling the baby so much more now and can even see it moving around when I look at my belly. This is definitely my favorite part about being pregnant and quite possibly the only part I like! I have to say, while I greatly enjoy all the baby movements, I will be very glad to never be pregnant again. It makes me feel so much more connected now that I can actually feel the baby moving around in there. Jose has been able to feel the baby move a couple times and Raeya was able to feel it too. Raeya was really excited after she felt it, which is nice because she hasn't been too thrilled about another baby joining the family. Elisabeth said she felt the baby, but I'm not too sure. She can't really stop moving herself long enough to really feel it. Maybe as it gets bigger and has even more, stronger movement she'll actually feel it.

We had the 20 week anatomy scan and everything looked great with the baby. The tech said the baby was very cooperative which made her job a lot easier. We managed to remain team green even though I felt very tempted to find out! Later I was talking to Jose about how much harder it felt to wait this time and he reminded me about how exciting it was to finally meet our baby and discover whether it was a boy or a girl. He's right, it really was such a wonderful surprise both times and I'm glad we chose to do it again. I loved watching the anatomy scan, I could sit and watch my baby all day long. Here's a couple of photos from the scan.

Look at those lips!

Baby peaced out at the end.

I don't think I have much else to share right now, so I'll end with a some bump photos.

20 weeks

24 weeks

24 weeks

A Year Goes By

Life as a mom is busy and while I really wish I could blog regularly, I just haven't found a way to make it work. At this point I figure whatever I manage is better than nothing because this has been the most effective way to document my kids' milestones.

So with that said, I don't really even know where to begin with this update except to just go ahead and announce what brought me back here in the first place...

Baby #3 is due March 23. 2019!!!!

I am 17 weeks 3 days along as of today and already feel so far behind with documenting this pregnancy. I will try to do better though because I don't want this little baby to be neglected. Part of it has to do with how sick I've been.  I seem to have gotten sicker with each pregnancy. I started to get waves of nausea at about 3 weeks which was not a good sign. I hadn't even taken a pregnancy test yet. A few days later, I started testing even though it was early and got faint positives that got darker each day. I started taking unison/b6 at 4 weeks and was up to 3/day by 6 weeks. I started throwing up by 6 1/2 weeks, so I had to add Zofran to the mix because I didn't want to be throwing up every 2 hours like last time. I started with one and quickly got up to 3/day in addition to the unisom/b6. Even with all that and doing absolutely nothing but lay in bed, I still had 2 weeks of throwing up 1-2 times everyday.

It's been brutal, but it's finally starting to get better. I haven't gotten sick in a little over 2 weeks and even though I'm still pretty nauseous most days, I'm starting to have good days. Plus I've started to get out of the house a little bit again, which is really nice. Being stuck inside for 2 whole months really sucks. There's only so much tv you can watch before it starts to feel like your brain is melting!

Now that I've gotten the bad parts out of the way, I'll share some of the more fun stuff. This little baby is kinda crazy. At 12 weeks we asked our midwife if we could listen to the heartbeat on the doppler. She ended up finding the heartbeat in two different spots, but she said she was pretty sure it was just one baby because the heart rate was the same. Then the following week, I had an appointment at Kaiser and the midwife there did an ultrasound. She was on one side of my uterus and we clearly saw a baby. Then she moved over to the other side and we clearly saw a baby again. This seemed odd, but we waited for her to say something. She then slowed down and looked thoroughly and said, ok there's just one, I thought there were two for a second but it just got over there before I did! Little baby was just too darn active. You need to calm down in there and stop giving your mother heart attacks by pretending to be twins!

At 16 weeks, I started feeling little taps in my uterus that I thought might be baby. I know now that it was baby and I'm feeling baby move more and more every day. You are making me nervous though little one. I ordered a calm baby and it doesn't seem that I got what I ordered! That's ok, I still love you very, very much. A couple nights ago, I was laying on my back and felt a hard lump going horizontally across my uterus. I thought this was probably baby and I was feeling it and pressing down on it. All of a sudden I felt something flip and the hard lump was gone. Baby didn't like being poked and prodded.

It's so much nicer now that I'm starting to feel better and getting to enjoy some of the fun aspects of being pregnant. I can't wait to get to know this little one while I wait to meet him/her. My anatomy scan is a few weeks away on Nov.5 and we plan on waiting until birth to find out whether baby is a boy or a girl. Even though we waited with our first two, it feels harder this time. It's going to be really interesting though, because both girls say this baby is a girl and get upset when we tell them it could be a boy. I feel like it's a girl, but I could be wrong. We'll just have to wait and see.

I'll end with a couple of photos.

12 weeks

16 weeks