So in all my excitement about finally NOT being sick while pregnant, I *may* have jumped the gun a bit. With Dakota, it was horrible morning sickness from just a couple days into the 4th week until the 12th week. With Brayden, it was drastically different, not exactly having morning sickness, but more of a wretched, constant heartburn so bad it would make me throw up. And again, from about 4.5 weeks until 12 weeks (at least it stopped at 12 weeks on the dot!). So now? We confirmed this pregnancy around 5 weeks this time. If this is too much for some of you (especially the guys with no kids yet!), skip ahead a few sentences. We really weren't thinking pregnancy. Since Brayden, my...um...."friend" has been crazy irregular, and I'd already wasted 2 pregnancy tests between last July and March. I'm talking up to 10ish days late, etc. And, after about 4.5 weeks, I wasn't sick, so I kinda figured I was just late again. We agreed not to take a test until after the 10-day mark (since that's the latest I'd been yet), but of course, we are SO not the patient type of people. So, at 5 weeks, we took it. And to my surprise, I was pregnant, and wasn't sick! I spent the next, oh.....3ish weeks reveling in the idea of having a by-and-large sick-free pregnancy. Until the end of last week. And it's hit me with a vengance. It's a cross between morning sickness and heartburn. Not nearly as bad morning sickness as with Koda, and not nearly as bad heartburn as with Brayden, but putting them together makes up for it!
However.....as much as this DOES stink, I'm just thankful that I got about 3 weeks of this pregnancy, and that, if the pattern continues, I'll be done with this crap in a little less than 4 weeks. So, I suppose I'll take a month of being sick for a new cute little bundle of joy/crankiness. Plus, with the delayed sickness, along with the fact that so far, this pregnancy is still drastically different than the last two, gives us a *bit* of hope that it *may* be a girl! We shall see. And, in learning from these last two, I've discovered that (at least for my OB), the best time to go in for the 1st appt is around 10 weeks. Therefore, when you come back in 4 weeks, you can schedule the main ultrasound for the 4 weeks after that (at 18 weeks), and they won't give you any trouble about trying to sneak a peek before the "20 week" mark. With Brayden, we did it at 17.5 weeks, and they gave me all kinds of crap (the schedulers, not my OB, who said it was fine), telling me that they don't schedule them until 18 weeks along......and for some kind of scheduling reason, it was either 17.5 or more like 21 weeks, and I'm impatient, darnit! So, if my calculations are correct for the due date (November 20th), and the ultrasound is done at 18 weeks, we'll know if this little one is a boy or girl somewhere around the 3-ish week of June!! Can't wait!
