At the Beach!

Thought I'd post a couple of pictures of our trip while at the beach. We have been having a great time! Last night we ate dinner at this place right on the beach which had a fun playground for the kids while we waited for our meal. I wish all kid-friendly restaurants had that! It was wonderful to be able to sit at our table and just watch them have fun! Here are a couple of pictures taken after our meal.

Beach bums!

Thought you would enjoy this picture of our festivities from today. Jeff took the girls out to the beach after naps and Sadie decided that being buried in the sand would be a good idea : )

On another note.... I've been feeling the baby kick this week! I love, love, love this part of pregnancy!

14 Weeks

I went in a couple of weeks ago for a 12 1/2 week ultrasound to do the chromosomal NT test and bloodwork.  Not that we are too worried about there being any problems, but we would like to be able to prepare emotionally, if there were.  Everything checked out fine so far.  I will get the results from the bloodwork when I go back in on the 25th for.... our gender scan ultrasound!  Woohoo!!  Can't believe we will find out if our little bean is a boy or girl in just a couple of weeks!  My best friend will be in town from England and is coming with us as well.  I am so glad she will be there too.  It will be a lot of fun.  I would love to have a boy just to have something different than our 2 girls, but will be happy either way.  There is some sort of comfort having another girl since we already know girls pretty well : )

OK.  So, my belly is HUGE compared to my last pregnancy with Keller.  Seriously, people.  Kinda nervous.  I was already close to 10 pounds heavier when I started the pregnancy and I was STARVING for the first 7 weeks of this pregnancy and ate every few hours.  I also tended to eat more with the queasiness because it made me feel a little better.  So, I have gained a good bit of weight already.  We need to slow this train down!!!  Check out my 18 week belly from my last pregnancy (on the top) and my 12 week belly from this pregnancy (on the bottom).  A little scared.  : )

On other news... my fatigue and hormonal craziness and queasiness are pretty much totally gone.  I can't begin to tell you how relieved I am.  Honestly, I felt so incredibly horrible that I wasn't even enjoying being pregnant this time around and began to question our decision to try for another pregnancy.  I think the physical issues started playing with my emotions horribly and I began to question getting pregnant again at my age, etc...  It was a horrible place to be.  Jeff would come home around 4:30pm after work and would literally have to take over the kids, dinner, and putting the kids to sleep while I stayed in my bed.  This schedule went on for a couple of weeks solid and then for another couple of weeks it would be intermittent.  Sadie started acting out because she didn't have her mama anymore at night and one night cried to me about how I was so sick and taking shots (while I was on PIO) and couldn't play with her anymore.  It was a difficult first trimester to say the least.  I hesitate even sharing these feelings with you just because I know there are many out there who would take all of that to be pregnant in a heartbeat!!  And I feel the same way!  But, it is amazing how my physical well being played such a number on my emotions.  I felt like I was in a dark cloud of sorts.  So, please know that I am just sharing from the hormonal cloud I was in.  Everything turned around for me during my 12th week. I began to feel like myself again and could take care of my girls the way I wanted to and play and read to them before bed.  And, I could take care of my sweet hubby again!  And then when I went into the OB and saw our little bean again at 12 1/2 weeks for the U/S, I fell madly in love and was SO VERY excited to be preggo again!  I can't tell you what a relief it is!!  Here is a picture of our cutie pie during that ultrasound...

I think that is it for now!  We are heading to the beach this Saturday for a week with my parents.  Can't wait for some sun and sand!  Although, I am not really looking forward to getting into a suit in my state : )  I still don't look super pregnant in a suit.  I just look like I ate one pie too many.  Ha!!
Happy Spring!!!

11 weeks and still growing strong!

Hey all! Just wanted to let you know that we had another ultrasound on Monday and our little bean is looking good! Measuring right on track with a heartbeat at 167. Yay! The other twin's sack also shrank a lot, which is good. It appears that I will just be reabsorbing that twin as I still haven't had any type of bleeding. We go for yet another ultrasound next Thursday to do the NT scan. It is nice to see our baby so often!

I have had a little reprieve from nausea and fatigue. Today is the first day in weeks when I didn't take a nap. The end is in sight! I am praying that all queasiness will be gone by the end of the week. I will be 12 weeks on Friday and was through with nausea by then with Keller. Here's to hoping! : )

Another milestone : )

I got the call yesterday to let me know that I could stop taking all of my meds!!!  YAY!  Last week RN Katie told me to cut the Progesterone and Estrace in half and gave me more orders for bloodwork in a week.  I decided to go back to my local fertility clinic with those orders yesterday because they can get the labs done STAT and I had high hopes for good news that I could stop completely.  Otherwise, I would have had to wait until next week to get my labs back at my OB.  It was well worth the additional money spent when I got RN Katie's phone call!

I hadn't posted earlier about it, but my general shot areas broke out a couple of weeks ago and we thought it was due to the accumulation of the oil that is used to put the progesterone in.  So, we asked RN Katie to send in a new prescription for progesterone in a different oil.  After that was done, Jeff started noticing that my red welts were in circular patterns.  It turned out the my bandaids were the culprit!  So, we stopped using bandaids.  That was probably 2 weeks ago and my rear end, while looking better, STILL has red welts!  I am so very happy to be able to let the area finally heal completely : )

I am 11 weeks today and already have a little pooch.  Much earlier than my last pregnancy.  I am thinking it is due to having started out with twins and having 2 sacs that were still the same size even after Baby B passed.  We have another ultrasound on Monday to make sure that Baby B's sac is beginning to reabsorb and get smaller.

Looking forward to the beginning of warm weather in Atlanta today!  I am gonna need some spring/summer maternity wear!  Can't wait!

9 week u/s

We just had our 9 week ultrasound and, as we expected, we lost Baby B : (  Baby B was only measuring 5w5d, so I am thinking that it didn't grow much, if any, past our last u/s 2 weeks ago.  The fabulous news is that Baby A is looking amazing!!  Measuring right on track with a very strong heartbeat (but, I totally forgot to ask what it was!  Another indication that this is my second pregnancy.  Ha!).  Our midwife told us that we will keep doing u/s every 2 weeks until Baby B's sac is reabsorbed just to make sure that everything is going ok with Baby A still.  From everything I have read, it sounds like losing a twin this early doesn't have a huge effect on the other thriving twin.  So, I am praying that our little bean just keeps on growing!!  It all still feels a bit surreal that I am pregnant again. : )

I have been having a much harder time with nausea this time around.  Every afternoon/evening is hard for me.  I haven't vomited, but sometimes I wish that I just would!  I am looking forward to the second trimester.

A couple of pictures... the first is both babies side by side.  The second is Baby A.

Slow heartbeat

I have been so negligent with the blog over the past week.  With fatigue and nausea pretty much every day, I can barely keep up with my household!  We went to my OB a little over a week ago when I was 7 weeks.  I had a bunch of questions for them and I wanted to put my mind at rest and know that we had 2 heartbeats.  Well, we had an ultrasound done and we had 2 heartbeats, but Baby A was at 129 and measuring on track and Baby B was measuring super small and had a heartbeat only in the 70s or 80s.  It was so faint and slow that they had a hard time capturing it on doppler.  We are really doubting that Baby B is going to make it.  Although Jeff and I weren't exactly hoping and praying for twins from the beginning, it was still really bittersweet to see one of our babies struggling.  At this point, we are praying that Baby A continues to grow and thrive and do well as our midwife wasn't giving us much hope for Baby B.  God has them both in His hands, we know, and I have had a lot of peace throughout this journey.  I haven't had any bleeding, which my midwife had me looking out for, so not sure exactly what is going on in there.  We go back this Monday for another ultrasound.  We will keep you posted!