Announcing...

Yup, we are having another baby! I am currently in my 13th week which means I will be out of the first trimester soon. This pregnancy has been awful, much worse than my previous two, so hitting the second trimester will feel really good. Much of my November and December was spent in bed or in the bathroom, not fun! On top of the normal nausea, throwing up and body aches, this time around I have been getting terrible head aches, extra saliva production, and smell aversions, (J's poopy diapers, smelly hand sanitizers, onions, ANYTHING smelly - even if I normally find it to be a good smell, like laundry soap. I also had this weird thing which Webmd called Dysgeusia, basically from about 8 weeks to 12 weeks my mouth tasted like metal no matter what I ate or drank, brushing my teeth and using mouth wash even made it worse. I found out that if I gargled salt water multiple times a day it would make the taste a little better. (Thank you internet!) It didn't help that I had so much extra saliva in my mouth to deal with at the same time. THANKFULLY this has stopped for the most part! I still get a little sick at night, have headaches, and now some insomnia, but I'm feeling much better than I did a few weeks ago. I'm hoping to gain some more energy soon so that Maya will stop asking me, "What!? Do you just like to lay around the house ALL day?" My poor kids and Nick. I was practically living in my bathrobe for all of Christmas break, one day Nick said, "Soooooo, think we'll get you out of that robe sometime in the next few days?" Haha, he was such a huge help. I'm thankful it worked out to be over a time period when he was home so the kids weren't totally neglected. He is the best and took good care of me.

My first appointment was last week, it made all of these yucky side effects worth it to see our little baby doing somersaults, kicking, and just being crazy inside of me. For some reason I have been really worried about this pregnancy and I was so happy and humbled to hear the heart beating. Even with the third baby, I can't help but be so amazed with this whole process. I can't wait to find out what the gender is so we can start planning things out a little more. I'm excited to hold on to my little guy or girl and snuggle, but for now we are enjoying life as the four of us because I know things are going to get a lot more complicated and hectic once July hits!