one pump CHAMP

i went into great detail with how i got pregnant with maki on his blog.  i owe it to baby #2 to do the same.  and yes, it was also planned.  my personality won't let me get pregnant by accident!  ;)

mik and i have talked about a baby brother/sister for maki - we both want another baby for sure and we didn't want to wait too long.  i'm not getting any younger and maki seems like he wants to play with other kids wherever we go.  in early may, i noticed that my periods have been very regular the past 3 months.  so knowing that my cycles are about 28 days, i suggested to mik that we get busy on may 10th, 12th and 14th (ovulation supposed to happen on the13th).  he agreed of course.  the night of may 10th, as we were laying in bed, i tapped mik's shoulder and... that's all you need to know.  on may 12th, it was a really hot day and since we don't have AC in our bedroom, nothing happened.  on may 14th, mik's cousin came over with a bottle of whiskey and mik passed out snoring.  the next morning, i didn't talk to him.  i was so upset and he didn't have a clue why.  i told him we missed our window.  we'll have to wait 3 more months so the birthdays aren't close together.  he comforted me and told me it would be ok if the birthdays were close.

the following week, i was so exhausted.  i was passing out on the couch which i normally don't do.  i don't usually nap.  one day i even slept at 7:30pm!  what's going on?!!!  then it hit me.  could i be pregnant?  how could this be possible?  we only had sexos once and it was on the early side.  but all the signs were there.  i was definitely fatigued a lot, moody, heightened sense of smell (maki's poopy diaper made me want to hurl), dizziness when getting up, gassy, peeing in the middle of the night...  i let another a few days go by but i couldn't wait until the 28th - the day i was supposed to get my period - to do a pregnancy test.  i didn't share my thoughts with mik because i didn't want to get his hopes up.  on the 24th (4 days before my period), i tested positive.  there were 2 lines but one line is very light pink.  on the 25th, i felt a lot of cramping esp. on the right side.  on the 26th, i tested positive again although the 2nd line is still light and i had brown spotting.  cramping continued.  on the 28th, i tested positive again and the 2nd line is not as light.  still not convinced, i used another brand of pregnancy test (ept instead of 1st response).  i tested positive again but the plus sign is more like a bar sign.  when i didn't get my period, on the 29th, i did 2 tests again with 2 brands and both were positive.  so after 6 tests and a missed period, i finally told mik and maki.  i told maki he was going to be a big brother and mik and i started tearing.  i was still in shock.  how could it have happened after that ONE time?!!!!  but to think of it, that's how maki happened too!  mik is a one pump CHAMP.  hahaha

2 different brands -- both positive!

since mik and i just got married last june 10th, my medical insurance didn't start until july 1st.  at that point, i would be 9 weeks.  i wanted to hear the baby's heartbeat so i asked my dear friend katie, an ob/gyn, to do an ultrasound for me around 7 weeks.  when we heard the heartbeat and saw the little peanut, i could finally believe it...  i'm PREGNANT!!!!!!!!!

my pregnancy has been going well so far.  i'm not as careful and googling everything that enters my mouth.  i'm also more lenient about what i eat this time around.  i think that's normally the case with the 2nd baby.  sad, i know (sorry baby 2)!  my pregnancy symptoms are:

• waking up at night 1-2x to pee.  sometimes it's hard to go back to sleep afterwards so i find myself awake for an hour or two before i can fall back asleep again.
• nausea almost every couple of hours - before, during and after i eat!  it is horrible this time around.  i felt like i was always sick for about 4 weeks.  it's much better now but i was so unhappy walking around nauseous all the time!
• feeling bloated and showing a lot faster.  i'm only ~10 weeks but i feel big already.  i was told it's because my body has been stretched out with the 1st pregnancy already.  i also think i never got to a flat stomach anyway, which is unfortunate.  :( i def want to get my sexy back after this pregnancy!!!!!!
• i usually get dizzy if i get up too fast
• i crave pasta/pizza and hate veggies/fish
• sometimes i get hit with fatigue and have to take a nap.  it's kind of nice being unemployed during this time.  i remember wanting to crawl under my desk at work because i was so tired.  this time i can take a nap if i needed to!
• heightened sense of smell although right now i have a cold so can't really smell much
• no breast tenderness this time around

my ob/gyn is dr. becky brown.  she's in the same practice as my friend katie.  i've only seen her once but she's super nice.  i did the materniT21 and prenatal blood tests last monday.  they took 8 vials of blood.  i'm surprised i didn't faint!  we find out the results and the baby's gender on the 23rd.  dr. brown will be on vacation so katie will actually deliver the news.  SO SO EXCITED!!!  i'm amazed that they have made such developments since i was pregnant with maki.  we had to wait until 20 weeks to find out the gender then and now it's only 12 weeks.  YAY!  also i don't have to do the invasive procedure (amnio) to detect downs and other complications.  double YAY!  hopefully they invent something soon that will make the morning sickness go away!