If you didn’t see my announcement post, I’m pregnant! I’m now about 9.5 weeks! On one hand it’s flying, but when I think about it every day, it sure feels like it’s dragging. 30 more weeks seems like forever! You can see my six week photo below. I didn’t take my eight week because I have been so busy in June. Since I’m closer to 10 weeks than I am eight, I’ll just wait to take the ten week picture and update you again then.
Let me tell you, the past couple of weeks have not been easy. I’m in a constant state of nausea, dizziness and being purely exhausted. I don’t remember it being so bad with the other three. (Maybe because it’s been so long since I was pregnant or because I’m older.) On top of all of that, though, the past week and a half I’ve had brown spotting so I was paranoid that I was losing the pregnancy again. We were in the car a few days before I saw the doctor and all three kids were telling stories about my babies to their cousin:
Buddy: Did you know there was a baby before me? It didn’t live, but it would have been older than me.
Monkey: I remember I woke up one night to a noise and found out it was Mommy crying because she didn’t get to keep the baby before this one.
They were all so sad about the missing babies. My heart was breaking that I thought that I would have to tell them that we were losing another. Luckily I went to the doctor yesterday and found out everything is perfect. Baby’s heartbeat is right on track and everything looks great. My HCG tests were perfect. The midwife thinks it’s just implantation bleeding that is finally working it’s way out.
Now that that stress is behind me I am super excited for this baby! I’ll be meeting with some baby companies at BlogHer and hopefully coming home with some great contacts for reviews and giveaways. I’m going to start looking into cloth diapering again. I loved it with Buddy and Monkey. I never got back into it after I had to stop with her, though. I know I don’t want to rush it, but January can’t come soon enough when I get to hold this little one in my arms!
I’m so glad to hear everything is okay. I was worried about you.
OMG I can’t even imagine how hard it must be to hear them talk like that. But it’s so special that they know about their lil angels too!
I am so glad everything is good! I can’t wait to meet this little one (girl?!)!
Hooray for healthy babies! July will give you a bit more time to slow down and rest, hopefully that will help you feel better! Very excited for #4!
Congratulations on your wonderful news! I am so happy for you. I recently told my kids about the baby we lost before them and it is hard, but it was also good for them to know about the other angel that’s watching over them.
Love you roomie!
I just read this somewhere else and popped over here to say congrats to you! So exciting! You will be finishing out this year with a baby! (can I admit I’m a tad bit jealous! We’ve been trying for 6 years now and nothing. Like you, have suffered many miscarriages and it is so sad to hear my children talk about it. But I’m so excited and happy for you! Enjoy this one!! I love having babies!