So I'm 8 weeks along today as you can see above on the ticker. So I guess that means I'm 2 months pregnant. However technically the baby has only been growing for 6 weeks. I haven't really wanted to blog about pregnancy lately because I'm feeling a bit crummy. Not really as bad as some other people I know but still... its worse than my pregnancy with Grant. I'm nauseous. Maybe its the same and school kept me distracted last time. I just feel sick all day and I eat my meals and my snacks and a short time later I'm hungry again. I tried the eating more during meals to counter the quickly thereafter hunger but it didn't seem to change it.
I have to keep reminding myself that nausea is a blessing when pregnant because its supposed to be good sign of the baby's health. Well I can't wait until after January 26th because supposedly my second trimester will be great. It was fabulous with Grant's. I just really hope the nausea goes away. At least its about a month away. So as far as looking forward to things, of course I'm not in any rush to have a newborn around, but excited for the baby to come, I will look forward to the no nausea milestone. I'm sorry to all you ladies out there who stay nauseous the entire pregnancy. You are strong and amazing. Anyway, enough of this rant.
I think I will go read my book "The Work and the Glory" series number 3. My family is coming into town as we speak! So exciting. Christmas is here basically. Grant is about an hour and a half into his nap but he is yelling "Hi! Bye!" and playing with his stuffed animals and soft books. Looks like its either going to be a no nap day or a late nap day. No big deal either way. I'm just glad he is happy sitting in there for the time being.
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Sunday, December 11, 2011
I'm Pregnant!
Round two folks! Here we go! So I have a long shpeal about how this pregnancy came about. Stick around if you want to know the details (I promise they aren't super personal, unless you are afraid of the word period). So I have had 6 periods since Grant was born. They started when he was 15 months old. My whole life my periods were so irregular. But the ones I had been having recently were all relatively predictable. It was nice but that meant more frequent periods than I was ever used to. I just always told myself in the midst of them that this just means I would probably be ovulating and be able to plan our next pregnancy well.
Some history: Grant's pregnancy took 9 months to get pregnant. I had insulin resistance which caused me to not ovulate. Insulin resistance was set on from eating too many carbs and having too little exercise. Sounds like everyone I know who likes chocolate. Once I was put on a low carb diet while taking metformin, and exercising regularly, I got pregnant within a month. Amazing! When I was a teen my periods were irregular for probably the exact opposite reasons. I worked out a ton! However I still ate whatever I wanted.
Originally we planned on Grant being 2 1/2 for when we had our next kid. I thought December would be the best month as to not get pregnant before that. But then Perry and I decided it would at least take 2-3 months to get pregnant due to the last attempt with Grant. I guess I was more fertile than I thought and we started trying the beginning of November just for the heck it. Well first time worked. It shocked and baffled me. I was in such disbelief I still don't really think I'm pregnant.
Another reason I was shocked was with Grant's pregnancy I threw up (felt pregnant) 6 days after conception. That's ridiculous. Hardly anyone feels pregnant that early. This time I still don't feel pregnant and I found out about 28 days after conception. I have small cramps in my uterus and I'm somewhat tired but thats about it. Last time the only reason I took a test was because I threw up and it was almost on a whim. This time I took a test because I was on day 46 and expected to have a period around day 35. I almost waited until day 50 or 60. But my curiosity got the best of me as well as a ton of friends and family are pregnant and I really wanted to join the clan, plus we obviously wanted to get pregnant due to it just being the right timing.
Grant and I went to the dollar tree and bought a test. Yes their tests are legit and cheap! I thought I would take the test in the morning because it is the recommended time of day to take one due to concentrated urine and higher percentage of the HcG hormone present in a woman's body only when pregnant. I was tossing and turning in bed for about 3 hours with the word "pregnant" taunting me and driving me nuts. It was 1am on Friday morning December 9. I sat up. All of a sudden I felt like I had to pee. Perfect. I ran upstairs and took the test. It said to only put 4 drops of pee. I put 4 drops. The second pink line faintly showed up but the whole "screen" was pink. I panicked so I put like 20 more drops in. I waited...3 minutes. Voila! Pregnant. I was anxious immediately. I was excited! I was shocked. I was wired!
I looked online to see how big the baby was supposedly from my last menstrual period. A sweet pea. I looked for a sweet pea in the house so I could show Perry. Couldn't find one. I noticed my due date was probably July 30, 2012 and that I was 6 weeks and 3 days along! Wow. Way farther along than my last pregnancy reveal.
So I woke Perry and said, "Your baby is the size of a pea!" He was excited and slightly wired too. We discussed it. I called my mom. I wrote a few things down that I would need if the baby was a boy (I already have most of the stuff). Plus I may need new clothes because this time around I started the pregnancy weighing 17 pounds less than the last one. I would be a size Medium in tops and bottoms maternity. Then I just sat there. I decided it would be best to get some sleep and cruise the internet the next day. Yeah I slept maybe 2 hours. So tired the next day. Perry was worried that one could get a false positive by putting too much pee on the test. He researched a bit and found that it might cause a false negative! HA! But not a false positive. Awesome! So I really am pregnant.
So that is the story. I'm pregnant. Baby Stotts #2 will be 7 weeks tomorrow and the size of a blueberry. Wahoo! I almost waited until 12 weeks to reveal but I'm such a sap for excitement I had to tell everyone!
Some history: Grant's pregnancy took 9 months to get pregnant. I had insulin resistance which caused me to not ovulate. Insulin resistance was set on from eating too many carbs and having too little exercise. Sounds like everyone I know who likes chocolate. Once I was put on a low carb diet while taking metformin, and exercising regularly, I got pregnant within a month. Amazing! When I was a teen my periods were irregular for probably the exact opposite reasons. I worked out a ton! However I still ate whatever I wanted.
Originally we planned on Grant being 2 1/2 for when we had our next kid. I thought December would be the best month as to not get pregnant before that. But then Perry and I decided it would at least take 2-3 months to get pregnant due to the last attempt with Grant. I guess I was more fertile than I thought and we started trying the beginning of November just for the heck it. Well first time worked. It shocked and baffled me. I was in such disbelief I still don't really think I'm pregnant.
Another reason I was shocked was with Grant's pregnancy I threw up (felt pregnant) 6 days after conception. That's ridiculous. Hardly anyone feels pregnant that early. This time I still don't feel pregnant and I found out about 28 days after conception. I have small cramps in my uterus and I'm somewhat tired but thats about it. Last time the only reason I took a test was because I threw up and it was almost on a whim. This time I took a test because I was on day 46 and expected to have a period around day 35. I almost waited until day 50 or 60. But my curiosity got the best of me as well as a ton of friends and family are pregnant and I really wanted to join the clan, plus we obviously wanted to get pregnant due to it just being the right timing.
Grant and I went to the dollar tree and bought a test. Yes their tests are legit and cheap! I thought I would take the test in the morning because it is the recommended time of day to take one due to concentrated urine and higher percentage of the HcG hormone present in a woman's body only when pregnant. I was tossing and turning in bed for about 3 hours with the word "pregnant" taunting me and driving me nuts. It was 1am on Friday morning December 9. I sat up. All of a sudden I felt like I had to pee. Perfect. I ran upstairs and took the test. It said to only put 4 drops of pee. I put 4 drops. The second pink line faintly showed up but the whole "screen" was pink. I panicked so I put like 20 more drops in. I waited...3 minutes. Voila! Pregnant. I was anxious immediately. I was excited! I was shocked. I was wired!
I looked online to see how big the baby was supposedly from my last menstrual period. A sweet pea. I looked for a sweet pea in the house so I could show Perry. Couldn't find one. I noticed my due date was probably July 30, 2012 and that I was 6 weeks and 3 days along! Wow. Way farther along than my last pregnancy reveal.
So I woke Perry and said, "Your baby is the size of a pea!" He was excited and slightly wired too. We discussed it. I called my mom. I wrote a few things down that I would need if the baby was a boy (I already have most of the stuff). Plus I may need new clothes because this time around I started the pregnancy weighing 17 pounds less than the last one. I would be a size Medium in tops and bottoms maternity. Then I just sat there. I decided it would be best to get some sleep and cruise the internet the next day. Yeah I slept maybe 2 hours. So tired the next day. Perry was worried that one could get a false positive by putting too much pee on the test. He researched a bit and found that it might cause a false negative! HA! But not a false positive. Awesome! So I really am pregnant.
So that is the story. I'm pregnant. Baby Stotts #2 will be 7 weeks tomorrow and the size of a blueberry. Wahoo! I almost waited until 12 weeks to reveal but I'm such a sap for excitement I had to tell everyone!
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