Thursday, June 14, 2012

bye bye first tri

I wrote this post several weeks ago.  Since we've finally announced my pregnancy, I'm just posting it now.  I'm now into my second trimester and no longer have most of the symptoms that I wrote about here.  I feel the baby kick now and i love it!


Written at 14 weeks:
I haven't made it "internet" known yet, but I'm just beyond my first trimester of my second pregnancy!  Brandon and I are expecting another baby and we're really excited!  Even though I don't plan to publish this just yet... I do plan to after I announce our pregnancy, so I want to remember as much as I can.

Overall, my first trimester went well.  Similar to when I was pregnant with Peyton.  I got nauseous in the evenings- despite it being so called "morning" sickness.  I didn't really get sick much... just nauseous.  One big difference between my first pregnancy and this one was that I have been EXHAUSTED!  I've been a kind of tired that I've never in my life felt before- even after Peyton was born.  With Peyton my first trimester was over my summer break and I was able to take naps and rest.  With this one... I'm working, I can't take naps, and rest is slow to come by.  Besides this though, things have gone pretty well (but I'm really looking forward to summer break- which begins in less than three weeks!).  One other symptom that I did NOT experience with Peyton is that I have to pee all-the-time! Like every 15 minutes!  I'm sure you wanted to know that.

Because of the complications I experienced with Peyton (pre-eclampsia with HELLP syndrome), I have been labeled as "high-risk."  So far all this has meant is that I had some extra blood work done and I had to collect my urine in a big orange jug over 24 hours and take it into the doctor.  Apparently I'll have to do this two more times.

I'm sure that some of these details are more than what anyone needs to know, but I'd like to keep a record of the pregnancy for myself.  It's harder to focus my attention on this baby, when I have my little baby running around here.  I haven't taken any belly photos, and I am showing some at 14 weeks, which is much earlier than with Peyton.  So instead, this will act as my documentation for now.  Only 6 more weeks until we find out if this little baby is going to be Peyton's little brother or sister :-)  Very exciting!

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