15w

Last night I either felt a kick or was dreaming that I felt a kick. My intuition leans toward the dream. Though today I thought I felt a little movement. It would be about time for that-and I'm looking forward to it. It's very obviously one of my favorite parts of pregnancy.

My sciatic nerve is bothering me tonight since I carried Ava in the Ergo during our commissary trip today. My guess is that the first time I get up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom it's going to be horrible. I think I'm going to have to stop wearing them... which is a massive bummer because that's how I get my shopping done! Adapt and overcome and start putting Maya in drop-in daycare for errand days.

14w

 Baby is the size of a lemon!

14 weeks today! I was hoping this far along would also make it easy to eat Thanksgiving dinner-not so. I had a crazy aversion to GARLIC of all things today-horrible because we put garlic in sooo much usually, and today was no exception-quite a few cloves between the mashed potatoes and the green beans. I'm not sure if I'll ever want to try those recipes again after this-whoops!

13w4d

I'm thankful for an uninteresting, uneventful pregnancy. As bad as I feel for this baby not having any "exciting" posts or things to write about-it's a tremendously wonderful thing as there are no problems and I can function as close to normal as possible... which is wonderful when I have to chase these three around every day!

As far as things going on, there's not much. I'm fine with not many appointments-it's not as easy as last time when we just dropped Maya off at the CDC. I feel normal-my energy level is picking up (I no longer require a nap just to get through the day-I'm going to make good of this time though because I know at the end the naps will come back) but my appetite, especially at night, is still bottomed out. Which explains why I haven't gained a single pound. It would be lovely to eat-especially since I'll be cooking a big Thanksgiving dinner in a few days!

My one ache (other than the intense food aversions to just about everything) is that my sciatic pain is already starting. It must just be super sensitive to change or something. It's worst when I've been sitting on the floor-which unfortunately is a lot!

And-it's a good thing we've spilled the beans because otherwise Maya would have by now. She talks about "my baby" all the time and asks if it's kicking yet-and she's convinced it's a girl. We will see soon enough!

12w2d

How in the world am I this far?! I'm not complaining though, especially since less nausea and more energy should be making its way back in my life very soon! I'm so ready. We had a pretty busy past week, followed by a loooong day yesterday and not much sleep last night (fighting Benadryl is hard!) and the longest day ever today-even the babies were asking to go to bed at like 4pm, it was a miracle that we got them to 7:30 so at least our morning (hopefully) wont be horrible. Thankfully the days that seem unending and impossible to get through are not that common-usually I can at least shut my eyes for a bit. I'm going to sleep well tonight I'm sure!

I am having the same problem as I did last time with horribly itchy legs. It's the worst at night but my legs are so torn up its miserable. I take Benadryl pretty freely so I can at least somewhat sleep-it was so awful when we were out of town last weekend and I woke up in the middle of the night just itching. Horribly. I sure hope this doesn't last the entire time!

10w3d

Definitely didn't miss the days of absolutely nothing NOT triggering nausea and the gag reflex! Today has been pretty rotten on that end of things... And now I feel horrible because I haven't eaten. Bedtime can't come fast enough!

10w

We finally had our first real appointment today! While the wait is hard, I know by now it's for the best.

Of course it took forever to get to the ultrasound. We went, had to wait a while, got my vitals, had to wait more, then they wanted to do an exam since I hadn't had one since just postpartum with the twins. My anxiety level was through the roof, as I know Patrick's was too-but it was pretty clear right away when she started that we were "only" blessed with one little bean this time (yay!) even though I definitely made her double check :) (And of course we'd be thrilled if we had two again-I just would never wish for another high-risk pregnancy AND it would mean that we would HAVE to sell our house-about a month before my due date so we wouldn't be penalized-and would have to upgrade to a different van. So we're thrilled that this will be "easy" this time-I can't wait to remember what it's like to only have to meet the needs of one baby at a time!)

We told Maya when we got home and she was completely underwhelmed. I should've known, as it was kind of a bad time to begin with, and she tends to react really strangely to things we think she'd be thrilled about. Now she's excited and keeps putting her hand on my belly asking if she can feel the baby kicking yet which is sweet.

Here we go now! We'll slowly tell family over the next week or so and then announce it (and publish these posts) in a week and a half or so. It's definitely going to be interesting to see the general reaction!

9w6d

Today I was getting ready for the day, and had a tank top on, but no shirt yet. Maya walks up to me, looks at my belly (which is about eye level for her) and asks me if there is a baby in there. Floored, I asked her what she thought-and she laughed and said "oh! That's just food!" (We often talk about how the babies' bellies get so big after they eat.) Ha, kid!