{If you missed the big announcement, see here!}
This time around pregnancy has been MUCH harder. Not only do I have two kids to take care of, but the morning sickness has been ROUGH. So rough, you guys. I couldn’t even sit or stand without feeling sick for the first three weeks and napped on the couch most of the day. Luckily, I was able to have my first visit with the midwife during my eighth week and she was able to give me a recommendation for the (intense) nausea. I’ve been on a regiment of B6 (magnesium) three times per day and Unisom – a sleep aid – just half a tab in the evening* since then and it has helped immensely. I still have nausea, but nothing like I did before. I can actually function now!
*I made the mistake of taking a full Unisom tab the first evening I was taking the meds, and thank goodness it was a Friday night because I slept for about 14 hours straight!
Like the other two pregnancies, we have decided not to find out the gender! It’s such a fun surprise for everyone and, honestly, there seems to be a lot of pressure on us having a boy, since we have two girls. Obviously we would love to have a boy, but would be over the moon for another girl as well. Just a healthy and happy baby. Since we’ve never found out before, this seems totally normal. BUT if you were to ask me what I thought we are having, I would say a BOY! Only because this pregnancy feels SO different than the other two. But that isn’t necessarily a factor as I have a girlfriend who had two similar pregnancies and one very different pregnancy and has three boys. So who knows? Any of you mamas out there with different genders of kids? Did your pregnancies feel the same or different?
I did do (some) weekly bump pictures starting early on, mostly for posterity because there definitely isn’t a lot going on in the bump area… yet. I’m definitely at the point where my belly “grows” throughout the day!
Here are my first five (documented) weeks in review.
{week 5 – not pictured} This is the week I took the pregnancy test. I immediately started craving salty food, like these Perfect Bars in the peanut butter flavor. I also had heartburn and the slightest amount of nausea.
{week 6} I had nausea in the mornings and early evenings. Heartburn after most meals and after drinking water. I craved bagels, ramen, Perfect peanut butter bars. By the end of this week I was nauseous all day long and took naps both in the early morning and in the afternoon.
{week 7} Basically the same as the end of week 6: nausea all day. I couldn’t sit up (or stand up) without feeling sick. I would wake up, head upstairs to the couch and Aaron would feed me a half a bagel. I would take a nap for most of the morning while Aaron did breakfast with the girls and got Eloise to the bus stop. On days Daphne didn’t have preschool, she would play or watch a movie; on days she had school, I would rally to throw on some clothes and get her to drop-off. I napped in the afternoon while Daphne napped and then we’d rally again to pick-up Eloise from the bus stop. Most evenings I was completely drained and Aaron did most of dinnertime and bedtime.
{week 8} Basically the same as week 7. I was SO sick. Thankfully I wasn’t vomiting (sorry, TMI) but the most nauseous I have ever been in my life. All day, every day. I saw the midwife for my first prenatal appointment in the middle of this week. We were able to see the baby in it’s first ultrasound, the sac and the heartbeat. It’s always magical every. single. time. And the midwife was able to get me on anti-nausea meds, that I talked about above.
{week 9} I entered into my “third month” of pregnancy (which, by the way, pregnancy months are a little weird and don’t really line up the same way actual months do) and was feeling so much better. This was lucky because this also happened to be the girls’ mid-winter break, which meant they were home from school. I was pretty much able to get back to everything “normal” with just a little nausea, except for working out.
{week 10} Another good week where I was feeling mostly normal. Just a bit of nausea, but I could eat pretty regularly and not nap quite so often.
And if you are curious, here are my early weeks of pregnancy with Eloise and with Daphne!
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