Written August 8, 2022
How Far Along: 4 weeks 1 day
Size: A poppyseed! I had poppyseed dressing on my salad today . . . crazy to think our little baby is that tiny right now!
Gender: Unknown, but I’ll DEFINITELY be doing an early gender test with SneakPeek. Did it with Holly, and I loved finding out so much earlier!
Name: If it's a boy, we've had the first name picked out since before we were married (no middle name picked out though). If it's a girl, we have no idea. I’ve been liking a name the last few weeks, but Russ isn’t sold on it yet. And it’s probably too popular for my taste anyway, so . . . again, no ideas 🤣
Movement: none.
Fun Fact: This was only our second month of trying to get pregnant!! It took 20 months with Ada and 8 or 9 months with Holly, so it is GREAT to not stress about it long-term this time! I definitely attribute our progressively shorter try-times to learning more about my cycle (I am quite irregular, with longer cycles lasting 32-40 days; no diagnosed conditions).
Sleep: Two days before I took the pregnancy test, I woke up early in the morning and fixated on the fact that the last time I had a period, I spotted for two days leading up to it. I was due to start the next day, but had not had any spotting yet. I couldn’t fall back asleep because I kept thinking, “I’m probably pregnant!!” The day I took the test, I woke up at 5:30am, and again just couldn’t get back to sleep after the test because now I was thinking, “I AM pregnant!!”
Weight Gain: Will this be the pregnancy that I DON’T gain 40+ pounds in?? I sure hope so, since I’m already starting at a higher weight than my last two pregnancies 🙃
Symptoms: I kept telling Russ how annoying it is that pregnancy symptoms and pre-period symptoms are basically the same. I kept bouncing back and forth about whether or not I thought I was pregnant. I had sore breasts 5 or so days before my missed period, but that hasn’t been constant. I do think I’ve been having weird dreams more lately. I had some serious RAGE in the two days before I took the test (I took the test the day after my missed period), so I’m hoping I can blame pregnancy for that.
Diabetes: I didn’t have high blood sugars in the mornings like I’ve had in the past with early pregnancy. Maybe those other ones had nothing to do with pregnancy 🙃
Cravings/Aversions: None yet. Although I will say that although I usually crave sweets multiple times per day (like when I’m not pregnant), I haven’t been craving sweets the last few days. It’s been weird!
Diet/Exercise: I’ve been walking two miles most days this summer and occasionally doing some squats or ab work, but not much. I need to back off my regular sweets now that I’m pregnant because high-sugar foods are no bueno for this diabetic mama!
Missing Most: Haha nothing yet!
Nursery: Baby will stay in our room in a pack and play for the first 4 months or so. Then we’ll transition Holly into Ada’s room, where they’ll share the queen bed, and the Baby will get the nursery. If it’s a girl, decor will basically stay the same (though there are a few updates I’ve been meaning to make). If it’s a boy, it will be time to overhaul the nursery!!
Daddy: A bit apprehensive, as is usual for him in the beginning stages of pregnancy.
Ada & Holly: We haven’t told them yet; we’ll tell family soon, and we’ll tell the girls after that so they don’t spoil it 🤣 I’m wondering if Holly can sense it though, because she’s gone BANANAS in the last 4-5 days — crib climbing, high-chair climbing, nap refusals, stubborn crying . . . That girl is my SNUGGLE girl, and she is definitely going to have a hard time adjusting to a new baby 😅😅 And tonight after I read a book about a “new baby” (purely coincidental — just the book Ada chose from the library!), I was talking in hypotheticals with Ada about a new baby, and she basically said (over and over, emphatically) how she doesn’t want a new baby and she thinks we’re done. Guess she’s about to have her world rocked, too! 🤣
Highlights & Memories:
People haven’t asked me about babies much these days, probably because I’m typically pretty open about it. But the day before I took the test, my dad asked me what we were thinking about kids. I was already thinking I was probably pregnant, but I just told him that Russ had agreed to having a #3.
This is not a good memory, but a memory nonetheless. I had a rough day with the kids the day before I took the test. I was honestly thinking, “If I’m not pregnant, I might be done” because I was so overwhelmed and frustrated. Russ and I very rarely fight, but we were also kind of mad at each other the night before the test. So when I took the test in the morning, I felt sad because I was finding out such happy, wonderful news when I was not in the best place for it.
I told my best friend, Ashley, about my pregnancy immediately after taking the test. Technically, I actually told her before Russ (because he was still sleeping), but she didn’t see the news until after Russ already knew.
Can’t Wait For: Telling people! The adults in my family are all getting together for a trip to Alaska in about 2 weeks, and I was really hoping to get pregnant before then so that I could tell my whole family at once . . . I got my wish, and I’m super excited about it!