Pregnancy Weeks 16/17
Hi Everyone! Happy Thursday!
Well, I'm 18 weeks pregnant today. In a way it feels like the time is going really fast all of a sudden, but it also seems like I've been pregnant forever and will be forever...
Anyway, here is the latest:
How I'm feeling: MUCH better. I've been taking 2 zofran at night and that seems to take care of the nausea for 24 hours...I didn't take it last night and have been feeling sick since about 3 AM...will start again tonight. Would like to be off it but just can't function with the nausea...
How I'm sleeping: Some nights great, some nights not so much. Cheerios and milk seem to help. Reading. A warm bath. It's totally unpredictable...generally I'm just up 1-3 hours but some nights I don't sleep at all. Trying to make up for it with naps and sleeping in in the mornings (Luke and Zo have been sleeping until 8 or 8:30 AM since we moved to one nap a day, which is heaven...)
What I'm excited about: Feeling the baby move, most days although not every day. We've decided to find out the sex and that's still about 3 weeks away because I'm going on vacation, but excited for that scan. We had talked aobut not finding out but I can't wait...I feel like we can start planning/preparing rooms and clothes and etc. better if we know the sex (we have 2 kid rooms so eventually the same-sex kids are going to share, although initially we'll keep the twins together and the baby in his/her own room...but it'll be fun for me to know which room is which/who will be rooming together for future decorating plans...)
What I'm worried about: That they will see something wrong with the baby on the scan, although I'm not overly obsessed with it. Trying not to think about it. Also a dear blogging friend got some scary potential Down's syndrome news (big hugs to her), and for work I've starting working on this new prenatal test so that stuff is top-of-mind. FYI, I didn't get tested for any genetic stuff, because we didn't with the twins, and that decision was made on the following factors (in close consultation with my OB): 1) We would not terminate a pregnancy if there was an issue; 2) Those tests give false positives and for me it would be too hard to worry the whole pregnancy about my baby possibly having an abnormality, I would obsess on it and possibly for no reason and I can't do that to myself. I personally need to just take things as they come.
Also a little worried as usual about how we are going to handle 3 kids...will I ever leave the house again? is my big worry...I can't picture me out and about on my own with 3 little kids. (Two I've totally got down...three terrifies me...)
What I'm craving: Grapefruit juice like crazy. Cereal and milk in the middle of the night.
Weigh gain: I'm up 25 lbs. from my normal weight, 10 of those with the IVF drugs, 15 with the first trimester (when eating was the only thing that helped the morning sickness). My weight's been stable for the past month or so.
I gained 70 lbs. with the twins and lost it all, so I'm not too worried about what my weight is doing...
What I'm reading/watching/listening to: Newsroom. (Love.) Suits. I think we're going to start with Project Runway. I'm reading Love in the Time of Cholera, which is so good.
What I'm doing for me: I got a new lip gloss the other day...I can't find any of mine since we moved. Looking into yoga (will probably start something once I'm back from Colorado). Been trying to get out more and make friends (via kid activities) now that I'm feeling better, and making some progress there...yay. Went out with my husband on Saturday night for a little brewery tour of ABQ...that was super fun, and nice for him to have a designated driver. :) AND we ordered lounge chairs for our pool back in May and they just arrived...this weekend I am going to lay in the sun and read Vogue while the kids are napping, with a dip in the pool whenever I get too hot...I have been looking forward to that all summer...can't wait. :)
XOXO
