A special Christmas gift!

Well I thought Christmas had come and gone very nicely! Jerry was home Christmas Eve and helped prepare for Christmas morning. We went out for dinner and watched a movie too. Then Christmas morning, we broke out the camcorder and had a wonderful Christmas morning. Then up at 11am to start the rest of Christmas lunch. Well around 6pm I was resting watching TV and my little one inside said Merry Christmas by giving me a little kick, just below the belly button, how tender and sweet that was! What a perfect present!

I am feeling much better, as long as I take my half of a pill in the morning and after dinner, I seem to be ok. I am dealing with the pains of constipation daily, argh! Constant pressure of a full colon and intestine. It is well worth it however, this baby has opened my eyes to God and my many blessing he has given me.

Oh and my best friend has found out last week, she was pregnant, 6 weeks already on Saturday! How wonderful!

I hope everyone's Christmas was a precious as mine!

Susan

Update, 3 months already

Whew, it has been rough. My hyperemesis seems to have ended. This past weekend I have felt better and better, and I have not taken any meds today w/o any stomach aches. Hopefully it is behind me.

On November 15 I had an appointment with Dr Maener, a high risk OB. He went over every possible reason why I could have hyperemesis. Everything so far looks good, he had a blood draw ordered and an U/S ordered. The blood work can back normal and the u/s showed us only one beautiful little baby, heart beating away!!!

I had my 10 week regular ob check on December 2nd. My uterus is tilted and we could not hear the baby's heartbeat. We used an old u/s machine to see the heart beating. Heart looked great.

Our next appointment is in 2 weeks I will be 14 weeks along. After I hear the heart beat I will be relieved that everything is still going ok.

I will check in after the appointment to let you know the heart rate!

Susan

Morning sickness has hit me hard!

Well, since last Tuesday I was bound to the couch holding a garbage can. My morning sickness has required me to take 12.5 mg to 25mg of promethazine. It makes me very drowsy but it is worth it! I am not throwing up anymore, so far... I am told that I have not even hit my peak yet, when it could get worse, 9-10 weeks. I am 6 weeks and 5 days today and man, I do not know if I can go on feeling like this for the next 32, but I will of course, for my wonderful gift in my belly. For me to have this after 6 pregnancies w/o it, is very strange usually it hits you with all of your pregnancies, I am wondering if there is 2...

5 weeks

Tomorrow I will be five weeks pregnant. My journey has officially just begun. My little sweet baby's heart will start beating this week. I have already gained 7 lbs and I am wearing maternity clothes, argh. I feel like I am 3 to 4 months along. I wonder what I will feel like then? I am still working out, trying to stay in shape, and get into better shape. Geez I have been doing this for just about 2 years and still look the same, argh! Well now is not the time to watch the weight as much just keep exercising! I had my hubby get me some safer pregnancy pilates videos, do not want to take any chances with losing this little peanut! I still feel nausea from time to time, not as bad. I can go shopping as long as I am hydrated. Well, gotta go organize some more stuff around this house!
Take Care

The official positive test!

I went in today to the Dr's office to confirm my pregnancy. I am so impatient! Well of course it was positive and they gave me a due date of July 1, 2006. My first appointment is at 10 weeks on Dec 2nd at 1o:30 am.

So far the kids and friends are excited for us! We can not wait!!!

My big issue right now is feeling nauseous all of the time. It is horrible! I went grocery shopping, whew I was happy to leave! It was so gross looking at all that food. Yuck! I wanted to vomit down the aisles. But I held it in and mad it safely from the store. Everything smells bad too. Everything I smell stinks, argh! I can't wait for this stage to be over. I can wait but it stinks! LOL

Thanks for reading along!
Susan

Our 1st positive test!

Yep, it is official we are pregnant! At 6:05 a.m. I ran down stairs to test my a.m. urine. I have taken 4 other tests to get negative results, so you can imagine my excitement when I saw a faint second line!

We are so excited, being our first planned pregnancy. We had the IUD removed September 12th. We decided that if we were to have another it had to be now. We are not getting any younger and the kids are growing so fast. We tried on October 2, 4, and 9th. One of them were successful, we hope the 4th giving us a better chance to have our little Joseph Allen. If it happens to be another wonderful girl, we will name her Isabelle Faith!

Being my 7th pregnancy I am a little nervous. I have only told my closet friends knowing that they will be as excited as I am. I am sure my family will be glum and upset so I will wait until after the 1st U/S to tell them. I am nervous due to the fact of my last pregnancy ending in a miscarriage and the previous had the threat of a miscarriage up until birth. She's our precious baby girl Hailey Ann who is now already 2 years and 6 months old. I am so amazed with her everyday. We have a total of 6 kids, Spencer 9, April 7, Samantha 7, Danielle 6, and Deanna 5. I already mentioned Hailey which makes six. I know you are thinking that April and Sami are twins, they are not, they are step sisters. We have a wonderfully blended family.

Jerry and I have been blessed with each other and decided to have to children together, Hailey and this one. We are so happy and pray that everything will be alright.

God will carry us through this!