Saturday 13th July
So we are pregnant again! Bubba #2 is due mid March. That is
if the pregnancy test is correct. I have booked an appointment with Paul in a
week and a half to get blood tests and see. It isn’t a surprise, but we sure
didn’t expect it to be this quick! But we are both excited about having another
baby. Hopefully it will be similar personality to Daniel, but who knows.
Around a week ago I was having breakfast and started to feel
sick while eating it. The last time this happened was when I was pregnant with
Daniel. I had also been having a few headaches and feeling rather tired around
2pm – same as when I had Daniel. So yeah. I decided to go and have a pregnancy
test and it came back with 2 lines – pregnant again. I am excited that these 2
bubs will be close together in age – something that I was wanting. I hope that
Daniel and this baby are good friends and enjoy hanging out together. So yeah,
it’s going to be a pretty crazy time I think, but also a very exciting time!
Wednesday 14th August
Well it has been another month of being pregnant and it has
been a bit of a different run than when I was pregnant with Daniel. This time
around I’ve been feeling a lot more nauseous, particularly in the
evening/night. It’s just an unsettled feeling in my stomach. Eating does mostly
help, but sometimes it’s hard to know what I feel like eating – not so fun! I
don’t know if it’s because last time I was so busy at school I couldn’t really
think about it whereas this time around I’m hanging out with Daniel at home so
there is more down time to focus on it. I have also been tired but with being
home I’ve been taking advantage of having an afternoon nap which has worked out
well to give me the energy to make it through the night.
A couple of weeks ago I went to my dr to get my blood test
results and he said that all was looking good – I am pregnant again and it
looks like all is going well so far. Hopefully that will continue. He booked me
in to see Dr Booker again so that is happening next Tuesday. Hopefully we will
be able to get an ultrasound pic again. James is planning to come to that
appointment too. My due date at this stage is 18th March 2014. If I am 3 days over
then Dr Booker will be away (same situation as when I had Daniel) so we will
see what comes with that. Maybe I’ll need to be induced again, or maybe the bub
will come early or on time so they can meet him.
This week hasn’t been a great week! On Monday I was feeling
a bit nauseous at school, but I guessed it was just morning sickness, much like
I have been feeling most days. I messaged James and he asked if I was feeling
sick since lunch because he had gone quite pale and wasn’t feeling too good. I
didn’t really think I’d gotten worse since lunch, just much the same. When
James got home he told me that he had been sick on the train trip home. He was
still looking very pale and went to have a lie down. I gave Daniel his dinner
and he chocked on a piece of beef, resulting in him being sick. This again
didn’t sit well with me (or him). He became quite upset and I had to try and
stomach it to clean up his bib and face. So at this point, my tummy was also
quite unsettled. I put Daniel to bed and James had been up a few more times to
be sick. The poor guy. I did a few things around the house and made the spare
bed where I was to sleep at night so that I wouldn’t catch whatever James had.
It was a very broken sleep for both James and I. In the morning I got up with
Daniel and James continued to sleep, getting up at times to be sick. My tummy
was still very unsettled so I was drinking lots of water to try and fill it up.
I tried to eat a cracker but couldn’t swallow it, it was too dry. When I
started to make Daniel’s and my breakfast I was then unfortunately sick. I
called Mum up to ask if she could look after Daniel today so that he wouldn’t
catch whatever it was and so that James and I could both rest. She was very
understanding, as was Jenny who gave up her ‘mum day’. Mum came and picked up
Daniel and took him until 2pm. James and I stayed in our separate beds until
around 12:30 when we got up to sit infront of the tv, still on our separate
couches.
The hardest part for me was knowing if I had caught what
James had or if I had morning sickness combined with the anxiety of maybe
getting sick/then getting sick. I wish that the strategies were the same but
they’re not. Morning sickness – eat to feel better, stomach bug – don’t eat to
feel better. I was then very anxious to try any food for fear that I would be
sick again. Eventually I had ½ a piece of toast. I felt a bit off still but
kept it down. After Daniel woke up from his nap I had ½ an apple. Again, felt a
bit off but kept it down. I just didn’t feel good all night. Fortunately James
was on the up since around 12, tired and not eating much but feeling hungry in
the tummy, not sick. We both went to bed at 8pm and then slept until 6 when
Daniel woke me up and James got up to go to work.
It was really a day that neither of us want to experience
again. I wish I didn’t get so anxious about being sick. I wish I could make
myself sick to feel better, but I can’t. I just hate it so much! So yesterday
was just yuck, yuck, yuck. This morning we both woke up much better
(fortunately)!
Hopefully that’s the end of morning sickness for me and of
stomach bugs in this house!
Friday 23rd August 2013
This week we went to see Dr Booker for our first appointment
with this new bub. We have decided to call this one Squeak – so that our bubs
are Bubble and Squeak. Our appointment was on Tuesday when we were 10 weeks (or
so we thought). Everyone was so friendly and welcoming. They immediately
remembered who I was which is very impressive as I haven’t seen them for a
year. They were excited for us again but were surprised at how soon we were
back. But I am happy that both bubs will be close together.
Dr Booker took us into his little ultrasound room and had a
look at Squeak. It is there. Interestingly he sounded surprised that Squeak was
there. He said that often in 2nd pregnancies the bub isn’t there –
which I was surprised by if your body has shown all signs of being pregnant. So
it made me very grateful that Squeak is there – because I wasn’t really
prepared for it to not be there and I think I would have been upset if it
wasn’t there. He listened to it’s heart beat and it sounded good and strong. It
looks like such a little blob at the moment – it is earlier than when we went
with Daniel at 12 weeks. He measured it and said that he thinks the dates were
5 days out so he has said the due date is 23rd March 2014. This is
when he is away… Not so cool. I joked about getting induced so that he would be
able to deliver the bub and he said we will see how things are going but don’t
want to do it too early. He kinda took me seriously. Oops. Anyway, we will see
how things go. I would like for him to deliver this bub too, but Dr Keogh is
just as lovely – he checked on me at the end of my hospital stay with Daniel.
So yeah, we will see how things go.
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| Daniel looking at the photo of Squeak |
Overall things are going well. Can’t wait for 1st
trimester to be over to stop feeling nauseous but otherwise going well. I am
loving my afternoon naps :-)
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