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Reminders

Sometimes your forget things from your first pregnancy (or just hope things will be different)

Reminder #1: Eat AFTER you brush your teeth (I have a sensitive gag-reflex and it's even more sensitive when I am pregnant, so brushing my tongue causes problems.)

Reminder #2: Schedule less - you'll be tired & with all day sickness stuff you will move slowly and not be able to get as much done

Reminder #3: Eat many small meals - it helps curb some nausea feels (not all, but sometimes just enough)

Reminder #4: Be prepared to vacate a room or restaurant, etc. very quickly if a smell is too irritating or nauseating. You may end up puking if you don't vacate quickly enough. Saffron rice is TOO MUCH!

Reminder #5: Not all foods will be your friends, and much like your first pregnancy white items are winning out. Guess I am back on my white food diet (milk, cottage cheese, turkey & cheese sandwiches, yogurt, noodles, mac & cheese, rice, ice cream.) I am really trying to still eat fruits & veggies. So far, so good.

More reminders to come.

Also, I just ordered a Maternity Band in black. The one picture make it look stupid, look at the one with 3 pictures. It gives it that layered look. It allows you to wear non-maternity pants that you can't button anymore and that are riding below your stomach. And then when your belly gets too big and your shirt isn't covering the bottom of your belly anymore this will keep it covered. Plus you can wear it after when you are nursing and are wearing regular tops. It keeps your stomach covered when you lift up your top. And again, you can wear it when you can't quite button those non-maternity pants yet. I only ordered one and thought I would see how it feels & fits before I get another one. I will probably get a white one for a 2nd one.

Nausea is starting......

The nausea has started.......so far it is only when I have an empty stomach. So, first thing in the morning & close to meal times. So, it's not just a morning thing. It does seem to get worse as the day goes on, which is what happened with Isabel.

I swear food is being digested much more quickly now that I am pregnant. It has been a long time since I actually heard & felt my stomach growl. Last night, it couldn't have been much longer than 1.5 hours after I ate 2 bowls of spaghetti (that's normal for me for spaghetti -- I love it! It's my favorite!) that I felt & heard growling.

I eat snacks with Isabel twice a day, which I think helps because I didn't always remember to eat extra snacks with her (other than constantly shoving saltines in my mouth.) Plus, I have added in a snack right before I go to sleep, which seems to be helpful when it comes morning.

So far, no food aversions. We had garlic bread with our spaghetti (garlic was a big food aversion with Isabel) and other than it smelling very strong to me (which daddy said it did too) there were no problems. Although, I have noticed that the idea of some foods is not appealing. We have some cinnamon Puffins cereal in the cupboard and the idea of tasting cinnamon does not sound good to me.

I have been trying to have all kinds of foods & enjoy them while I can, because I think I still have another week or so before the food aversions set in with Isabel (if everything continues to track the same).

The Pregnancy Tests

If you were in person you could see a faint line on the top one. So far no food/smell aversions. I seem to get tired a little earlier in the day and my boobs are starting to get sore, but none of those really seem that big of a deal. After reviewing Isabel's blog, I think it will start to set in soon.

Today, Isabel & I went shopping and we bought a Baby's 1st Christmas sleeper (for 90% off -- what else do you expect on 3/2).

It's Official.

I went to the doctor to take a pee test and briefly met with the doctor. It's annoying that I still have to take a pee test in their office after I had 3 positive ones at home, but I understand why they do it.

Anyways, I didn't learn anything new. The confirmed October 28th as a due date & I'll be 5 weeks tomorrow. The doc suggested waiting until after 8 weeks to tell people or up to 12 weeks if we can.

I'll have another appointment in 4-6 weeks (which I will be 9-11 weeks along) and we will hopefully hear a heartbeat.

The doctor asked Isabel is she was ready to be a big sister and her response was a very soft & concerned sounding, "Noooooo." I told Isabel we had plenty of time to get ready for that.

We're Pregnant!

I took another pregnancy test yesterday to make sure. And we are pregnant. Apparently, I didn't allow enough time for the results to show on the earlier ones and just threw them in the trash, but after reading some article about one of the most common mistakes people make in reading a pregnancy test is looking at it too early or too late......well, when I looked at them there was no line in the pregnancy spot but I think I wasn't allowing enough time, but after I read the article I fished them out of my trash and here's what I saw:
* Day Period was Due -- no lines (not pregnant)
* 1 Day Late -- very faint line (pregnant)
* 2 Days Late -- a distinct line (pregnant)

But of course, seeing them at that time would be considered "too late", so on

* 3 Days Late & a Different Test -- a plus sign in both spots (pregnant)

And now it's 4 days late and 3 positive tests. We're saying we're pregnant.

We're not telling people yet. I am not sure when we plan to do this. According to Isabel's blog we waited a week to tell people.

The baby will be due October 28th, which make me laugh because that is my niece Jayden's birthday and Isabel was due to be born on my sister Steph's birthday (Jayden's mommy) but was born a day early. So, I am predicting an October 27th delivery.

I'll get pictures of the pregnancy tests up here soon. I had them on Bel's blog right away. At this point I plan to keep 2 separate blogs and I don't know if/when I will combine them.

I am trying to enjoy going out to eat & eating all kinds of things right now, because if history repeats itself I only have a couple of weeks before I can't stand to smell most any foods and develop lots of food aversions.

Guess I will have to call a doctor & go in for a pee test there soon. We have different insurance this time around and we are at a different clinic & hospital. This time we will be in Faribault. I met my doctor once because of a well-child visit for Isabel. She is a family doctor that specializes in pediatrics and ob/gyn. They had 2 family doctors there with those specialities. I wanted to be able to just have one doctor for both Isabel & myself.

So, that's the scoop. I know no one is reading this right now because no one knows it exists, but it will get read after we disclose we are pregnant.

Let the Good Times Roll....

So, we decided to go off the shot which I have been on for 2 years. We (mainly me) had planned much more when everything was going to happen with our first child. But I was working then in a school and wanted to have her birth coincide with summer break, which it did. Plus, we were told it takes an average of a year off depo to get pregnant with the range usually between 6-18 months. So, we went off 18 months before we wanted to try. Then we were told you never get pregnant the first month you try (although, tell that to my friend April who got pregnant with both her boys the first month of trying), so we planned to start trying and get pregnant the second month.....and that is just how it happened.....

Now, with our second baby, we are going to go with the flow. We don't even know where we are living permanently.....we had hoped to have a job & house in the same state, but so far that hasn't happened and we hope it happens soon. But with knowing it could take a while to get pregnant, we decided to go off depo now and now worry about protecting against pregnancy & trying to plan for a specific birth month and just go with when it happens. I am a SAHM mom now and plan to stay that way for a while, so I don't have a work break I need to plan around. So, if I get pregnant sooner rather than later, it is ok. I would rather not be pregnant over the summer, but whatever happens, happens.

So, you probably won't see another post on here until something happens.