Yep, you read it right…we are expecting #2!!! We are super excited, I am due June 3rd! I hit the 14 week mark this past Friday, which officially puts me now in my second trimester. Which I’m hoping really, really hard means I will begin to feel better. While the past two months have been hard, they weren’t near as bad as they were with Bo. With Bo I was more violently sick, not able to keep anything down, where this time it has been a more constant nausea with it’s peak around 4:00pm every day. Which I must say, makes for a very hard evening with a wild little boy and a husband who usually doesn’t get home til 7:30 sometimes 8:00pm or he’s out of town!!
We have had a lot of people ask about the possibility of a repeat of preeclampsia. We thought and prayed long and hard about having a second baby due to this. For those who may not know, I spent the last month of my pregnancy with Bo in the hospital due to preeclampsia and they finally took him at 37 weeks. We talked a lot with my doctor about her thoughts and her answer, like many others, is there is no way to predict if it will happen again. Yes, I do have a higher chance of a repeat, since I have had it once, but it doesn’t guarantee it will happen again. I am considered high risk so the doctors will keep a very close eye on me. They have already started doing some testing such as a 24 hr urine test to get a base of my protein levels. Luckily I know what to look for and what symptoms to be aware of. I am really monitoring my weight gain and my salt intake, which doesn’t really promise to help at all, but it can’t hurt. I absolutely love my doctor and all of the doctors in the practice. Dr. Arona is known as a high risk obgyn. When you are high risk the doctors will all meet and discuss your case in order to develop a game plan if something were to happen. I really like this, because with Bo there were so many doctors in the practice and they all had their different opinions, theories, means of treatment, etc…So in the beginning every time I was sent to the hospital to be monitored you never knew what was going to go on! So we ask for everyone to please say a prayer for a healthy pregnancy and baby!!
Others have asked about Bo…does he get it? Answer-No and he doesn’t really like to talk about it, maybe that means he gets it more than we give him credit for. He used to love babies but now if you ask him if he’s going to have a new baby he says “no”! When he sees the ultrasound he calls it a frog and when you ask if a baby is in mommy’s baby he says “no baby, a frog ribbit, ribbit”!! So, the next few months we may have to work on him a little.
It’s funny how having one already keeps you so busy you kind of forget your pregnant! The only thing that reminds me is feeling bad. With Bo I could have told you every week how big he was…size of a grape, a lemon, a kumquat (whatever a kumquat is), etc…this time I’m like, poor baby…I don’t know if it even has hands yet!! The first time around too, you are so excited to get your first maternity clothes, this time…I’m stretching my regular clothes as long as I can because I know once you hit maternity, there’s no turning back you’re just going to get BIGGER!!!!! I will say it’s getting very close to time to hit the maternity store, but again very different than Bo…with him I think I was in maternity by like 10 weeks!!!
So all in all, things are going well. I’m just hoping to start getting some energy back and be done with the morning sickness. I know my child would love for me to actually pay him some attention. And I know my husband would love to have something for dinner other than “whatever you can find in the fridge”! I will say that plain pizza has been one thing that I have been able to eat. It’s really sad though, because a few weeks ago the UPS guy dropped something off at the house and rang the doorbell and Bo went running to the door shouting “pizza, pizza here”!!! That can’t be good!!
