Pregnancy: Week 4

Hi Everyone!

I'm 5 weeks pregnant today...yay!

(My due date, by the way, is January 1, 2014...how cool is that?)

Wanted to document this pregnancy as I did with the twins, and so:

Not much to report, other than that I am so excited to be pregnant! And I felt great most of the week but the past couple days I have been ravenous, and a tad nauseous (raisin toast with butter seems to help), and tired but I'm not sleeping well at night for some reason (not unusual for me) so that can explain that.

I can also smell a dirty diaper from clear across the house.

And I swear I already look a little pregnant. One of my pregnancy books says with a second pregnancy you start showing 5 minutes after a positive pregnancy test, and I thought they were kidding, but apparently not.

One thing that is kind of hard, my clinic has asked me to minimize my lifting, and luckily I have my mother-in-law here to help get the kids in and out of the crib, their chairs to eat, etc. But I miss picking up and carrying my kids so much! And it makes stuff hard, like I wanted to go to a play group yesterday, but I can't really load and unload the stroller, and loading and unloading the kids...just trying to be as safe as possible (although I am picking them up some). My clinic has asked for me to restrict lifting for the first trimester, so I've got a ways to go with that...

Anyway, this first week of being pregnant has been awesome. Trying not to think too much about the future, because I know the first trimester is a risky time. Just taking it day by day and trusting everything will work out OK...

XOXO