10 Weeks

I am 10 Weeks pregnant today! I weighed in this morning at 128 lbs. I was happy to finally not see a gain on the scale! I would love to be able to maintain this for awhile, but I know that won't happen! I started to really worry again last night because I felt pretty good last night and I feel pretty good this morning. My heartburn doesn't seem to be as bad lately which also has me a little worried. My boobs are still really sore, so I guess that is a good sign and I felt sick over the weekend. I just think that overall this first trimester hasn't been quite as bad as my other first trimesters other than that week that Jason was gone. It could be that I started walking right after he got back and trying to eat healthier and taking my prenatal vitamins. Where in the past I don't think I did anything in the first trimester other than work and take care of the boys. I have really lacked motivation to get any kind of house work done around here. I hate it because this is the time of year that I am so motivated to get things cleaned out and organized and ready for a fresh start for 2014 and I have not been doing any of that. I am really hoping that I hear good news next thursday at my appointment and then maybe i can not worry and will be more motivated to get some things done around here. I did get christian's closet half way cleaned out and I plan on finishing the rest of his room when all his furniture comes in. It will be here on Feb. 11th. I am also hoping to clean out and organize Jax's room also then. If I can get all the bedrooms cleaned out and organized ours included this february I will feel pretty good. I also want to move the stuff in the guest bedroom over to the craft room and the stuff in the craft room over to the guest bedroom. I hoping that jason will have all the interior doors painted and hung by Lucas' birthday party! Along with the trim painted in the kitchen and side entryway! I really need to start planning his party since we are doing it on the 8th of March. That is going to be here before we know it! I am guessing if I can get the top two floors organized and cleaned out in february then hopefully in March I can get my blogs all caught up and then maybe April I can start working on photo books! I have so much I want and need to do before Baby #4 arrives. Okay back to pregnancy stuff! As far as cravings go this week I wanted McDonald's pretty bad on thursday and I of course gave in to the craving and got it. I have to say though I felt pretty bad after I ate it and I don't think I will be craving it like that for awhile now. Friday I craved pizza so we got carry-out from Kipplees and once again I was not impressed. It gave me heartburn pretty bad. I am not a fan of Kipplees myself. I prefer Turoni's and so I am still kind of craving turoni's pizza. I think It is more of a veggie pizza that I am craving and we just got pepperoni and sausage because that is the boys' favorite. Everyday when I pick up Christian from school we have to drive by Long John Silvers. I normally only want this maybe once a year to once every two years and every time I eat there I feel disgusting afterwards, but I have to say it has been sounding good. I think fried fish in general has been sounding good!  I can't wait until lent when we can go to the Boonville fish fry on fridays. I have also been dying for a piece of cheesecake lately. I haven't given into that craving yet, but it won't be long I am sure! I have to say I am so ready for warm weather! We have had the coldest winter that I can remember in forever! Spring can not get here soon enough! I am still wearing all my regular clothes but a lot of my size 2 and size 4 jeans are feeling pretty tight on me. I have developed this nice donut or tire looking thing around my waist and it is not the baby it is just fat! I am going to color my hair this week, wax my eyebrows, and get a mani and pedi and maybe even get a spray tan to help lift my spirits from the winter blues and this extra fat on me! I am hoping this week goes by fast. I am so ready to get my appointment over with, so I can quit worrying so much one way or the other! I hate feeling like I am in limbo all the time. I want to plan and talk about things but I am to afraid of getting too attached and getting my hopes up!

9 Weeks

I am 9 weeks pregnant today! I weighed in at 128 lbs. this week. I am just so upset on how much weight I have already gained. I am really trying to get my eating under control and quit eating out so much. We have been doing the drive through or carry-out thing way too much! the last couple of days I have been eating a bowl of cereal or a granola bar for breakfast, then having a plain turkey sandwich for lunch and then usually cracker and cheese or fruit for a mid afternoon snack and then actually fixing something for supper instead of going out. I also have to end my day with an evening snack otherwise I feel so sick when I go to bed. I have been trying to eat cracker and cheese or a plain turkey sandwich instead of ice cream like I really want. I have been wanting sweets a little more the last couple of days which is a normal pregnancy thing for me. I have not been in the mood for chips hardly at all. This is usually a weakness for me. I normally love chips! I have been continuing to walk this week. I made it 3 days walking last week and I am hoping to make it 4 days this week. I would really love to weigh 126 lbs. when I go to the doctor in a couple of weeks. I am just dreading seeing that 130 again. Smells are still bothering me but not quite as bad. I still need to eat every 3-4 hours or I will feel sick and dry heave. I have been feeling more sick in the evenings after the boys are in bed and then I wake up feeling pretty good and as long as I eat regularly through out the day I feel pretty much fine. This of course has me a little worried that something could be wrong and that I could have a miscarriage. I was so worried this past week because I was feeling so much better all week and then Friday night I started to feel kind of bad and I felt horrible saturday afternoon and evening. Then I felt good again on sunday, but started to feel sick sunday evening and that is how I felt yesterday and today! I really hope everything is ok. If it isn't I would rather have a sign before I go in like spotting or something. I just really don't want to go in there thinking that everything will be okay and then there just not be a heartbeat. I hate this first trimester so much. I am trying not to tell anyone but it is getting harder and harder. February 6th can not come fast enough! I did finally satisfy my Hacienda chicken enchilada craving last thursday and that was so good! My boobs have still been really sore this week. I have to get up once a night to pee and then i am so restless trying to go back to sleep and it takes me forever to fall asleep. This makes me so much more tired in the mornings. I haven't had a chance to nap in the afternoons as much this week, but I really could use an afternoon nap on most days. I have been taking tums at night for my heartburn. So far this is working ok, but I am sure that I will have to go on something stronger before this is all over with. My face has cleared up for the time being and I hope it stays this way. I am so ready for warmer weather! I am so over winter and this cold weather. I am going crazy being inside like this and not getting to go on my daily walks around the neighborhood! I am thinking I am going to need to make a trip to the nail salon for a mani and pedi. Maybe that will make me feel better! I am praying and keeping my tigers crossed that this week goes ok. I am always so nervous on the 9th week because that is when the baby's heart stopped beating before.

8 Weeks

I am 8 weeks pregnant today! I weighed in at 126 lbs. I have to say I am getting a little worried because I have not felt nearly as sick the last couple of days. I have been doing a lot of research and the size and heart rate all point to really good signs for a successful pregnancy. I just can't help but worry! I still feel sick when I don't eat something and my gag reflexes are getting a lot worst, but I just don't feel horrible all day long and that is how I was feeling. Also nothing was sounding good and almost any smell was bothering me and now things are starting to sound good again and I am getting more used to strong smells. I had quit taking my prenatal vitamins for about a week because I was just so sick I thought I would puke if I even attempted to swallow one. Then I remembered my mom telling me that they help you not to feel so sick so I started taking them every night again about a week ago. Maybe those are helping me to feel better. Maybe I am having a girl and the morning sickness just won't last as long. I just can't help that worry that I went from being so miserable that I though I have to be having twin boys to now I can manage my nausea and thinking that this isn't so bad so maybe I am having a girl. I don't know how I am going to make it 3 more weeks until my next appointment! I will say one thing that I don't remember having with my other pregnancies is a horrible almost like a metal taste in my mouth. This has been going  on for about a week now. My mouth seems to always be watering and I feel like I have this really bad taste in my mouth. My  chin started to break out again a couple of days ago. It's just one or two pimples but it drives me crazy! I never break out and I don't remember breaking out with my other pregnancies. I started back walking again yesterday! I am hoping to stay on a routine of going to tristate at least 4 days a week. I would love to walk or do pilates on mondays, walk and do tennis on tuesdays, do yolates on wednesdays, walk or elliptical on thursdays, and do yoga on saturday mornings. I know there is no way I will be able to spend this much time at the gym with the boys and working though. I can't wait for warmer weather so I can take the boys on walks outside and I am looking forward to summer and getting to swim laps in the pool! I haven't had a lot of cravings yet. Sliced strawberries and pretty much any kind of fresh suit has sounded good, packaged turkey on wheat bread has sounded good, and I have been really wanting a chicken enchilada from hacienda. I was also craving simply lemonade to drink the other day. Snapple apple also sounds really good to drink. Some of the things that don't sound good are vanilla cokes which is normally one of my favorite things in the whole world or any other kind of dark soda. Chinese food doesn't sound good at all and beef or big chunks of meet don't sound good. Pretty much anything with a strong flavor is off the table for me. I am sticking to simple and more bland things right now. I feel like this pregnancy is going so slow. I think it is just because of the time of year and being my first trimester. I always feel like it takes so long to get to 12 weeks! I am sure a lot of it has to do with how worried I am in the first trimester and I analyze each and every day that goes by. I need to try and focus on something else these next few weeks! I have so much stuff I need to do, but no energy or motivation to do it. I am hoping that Jason will start painting this weekend in Christian's room. I would love to have his room finished by february.  I am going to try and work on our family blog and the boys' blogs. They are so far behind I don't know if I will ever get them all caught up! One other thing on my symptoms that has been better is I haven't had as much gas lately and I seem to be more regular. I was feeling so backed up. I am still feeling bloated just not quite as bad. I have also started with some bad heartburn the last couple of days. It doesn't matter what I eat if I lay down at all after eating I get bad heartburn. for now I am taking tums, but I will probably have to go on a prescription like last time.  I think that wraps up this week! I am praying and hoping that everything is okay!

First Doctors Appointment

Today was my first Doctor's Appointment with the nurse practitioner Julie. I weighed in at 126 1/2 lbs. I was not happy at all about this! i have gained 6 pounds since my yearly checkup in november! Julie went over all the routine paperwork with me. Jason actually got to come with me to this appointment which was nice. I got information on both hospitals because for the first time I am undecided on which hospital we should deliver at. I will elaborate more on that in another post. They did all my blood work today also and they insisted that I get a flue shot! I do not believe in flue shots and was not happy about getting one. I asked if they could do an ultrasound to get a more exact due date because my periods are so irregular and to help me to not worry so much. They were more than happy to do that. The ultrasound showed my due date to be August 26 and for me to be 7 weeks and 2 days along. This was right in sync with when I thought I ovulated. The heartbeat was in the 150's and looked good! She told me I ovulated from my right ovary which I thought was interesting. With Lucas I ovulated from my left, so at least I know I ovulate on both sides. It was such a relief to get a good report on the ultrasound. Now we just need to get through the next appointment and then I can really relax. My next appointment is in 4 weeks on Feb. 6th and this is when I will get to meet with Dr. Leinenbach. I briefly talked with Julie about a V-Back, but I am ultimately going to leave it up to Dr. Leinenbach to make the call on what she thinks is best for me and the baby!

7 Weeks

I am 7 Weeks today! I weighed in this morning at 124 lbs. I am not liking that at all. I have been so sick the last couple of days. I haven't' actually thrown up, but I feel like I could at any moment. Nothing ever sounds good to eat and almost any strong smell is unbearable. I have started with just a touch of heartburn and I have been extremely bloated and gassy. My boobs are just a little sore but not much. The nausea is what is really getting to me. I am having the hardest time finding something to drink also. I normally drink Dasani water all day every day, but right now I can't drink just plain water, it makes me feel even worst. I can tolerate it with a lemon, but I have really been wanting carbonated drinks, which is so not like me. It also is not helping with my thirst and my mouth always feeling dry. I pretty much feel like I always have in the past with the boys, so this makes me think this one is a boy also. My face has stayed clear in the last week which is great! I have also been SO exhausted. I could sleep all day everyday and all night!I of course can't do that with three little boys running around. I am going to have to probably start napping when the little ones nap while Christian is at school. Otherwise I might not make through the day! This is the time that I use to get things done around the house, but the house is going to have to wait this first trimester. I have been having to pee more often also. I get up at least once and sometimes twice at night to pee. That might also be why I am extra tired, I am not getting my full nights sleep. I go to the doctor next week and I am really hoping that they do an ultrasound to give an exact due date and to see if they can find a heartbeat. I really do not want to have to wait until my 12 week appointment to see if there is a heartbeat. As far as cravings go I haven't really had much of any because I have felt so sick. The only thing that I was craving the other day was a chicken enchilada from hacienda. I never ended up going and getting one and it doesn't sound quite as good as it did. I hope this sickness passes soon! I am hoping to start cleaning out the boys' drawers and closets this next week. I also really want to try and tackle the playroom toys. I don't know if I will feel up to all that, but that is my goal. I also need to get working on catching up all my blogs, uploading pictures to shutter fly, making photo books, and finish putting our videos on dvds for 2013. I also have to finish Cole's montage. If my nausea isn't any better then I might be doing a lot of that in the next week instead. I am hoping by the end of January that we will have Christian's room finished, and the boys' closets and drawers all cleaned out and organized, The playroom toys cleaned out and organized, and all blogs, photo books, dvds caught up! That is a lot to do, but I don't think we have a lot going on this month and the weather is usually bad so we stay inside.