Veinticinco

I know. This blog needs some more color or SOMETHING other than these colorful pills. I'll start brainstorming..... and hey- if your talented and have ideas, I'm open. 

oh meds. Can I just be off the prednisone. It's making me miserable. No sleep. Major heartburn. 

So added to the medication pile is 2 zantac 150's and benadryl. although ben is no pictured. just FYI. Niether are the millions of tums I have gone through. 

It seems I take a zantac around 11, when I can't bare it anymore and it wears off by dinner. until my appointment I was restricted to only 1 zantac150  a day. so I would have to suffer through the nice on tums. and those leave a nasty taste in your mouth, especially when I take them at night and I'm to tired to rinse my mouth after. The whole next day my tongue is tingling and doesn't taste things the same. Anyone else's do that? 

OTHER than the heartburn and no sleep, I'm doing really pretty good. I seem to be able to catch naps to keep me going. And I still feel like I can accomplish more than that first trimester exhaustion. 

Baby Boy 3 is growing nice and big and healthy. I was happily surprised when the nurse said I would be getting a growth ultrasound at this appointment. They hadn't warned me of that before. Don't you love lookin at your baby. 

Everything looks good from the screen and he is measuring a few days ahead of schedule. By my next appointment- where they will do another ultrasound, they expect he should be around 3lbs. double in size. Crazy. I'm starting into the growing big stage. 

As for the lupus- blood draw was eariler this week. I'm hoping for a call today or tomorrow. Praying for good news and release from Prednisone. HA. 

 25 week picture in the mirror.

24 week ultrasound

long awaited

Enough utlrasound pictures for ya? naw, maybe we should throw in another sheet.

The long awaited 20 week appointment has come and gone. I stressed a lot, for some silly reason, about whether or not to find out the sex. In the end it didn't really matter- when the tech moved down to the lower region of baby's body to measure femur I saw, I what I hoped was an umbilical chord....and something else round. (I wanted a girl) but wha la! we have another boy. It's so good we are having a boy. I'm excited for Jack to have baby brother to play and look after. The whole girl thing was purely selfish. to read more....click here

I feel really good right now. I am a PERFECT stage. I'm not so big that everything hurts and simple chores are complicated to get done. but I'm not sick to my stomach and laying around on the couch all day either. (not that I'm up to par) I have a feeling that until I get to that giant size the pregnancy is going to fly. But we know how slow that last month goes by.

2nd Utlrasound

At this second appointment am 7 weeks along- to see the heart beat I got to have another ultrasound. Both the kids were with me and thought it was pretty cool. Although the baby looks nothing more than a worm, you could see its fluttering heart beat.

Hearing the heart beat for the first time is always monumental. a Little bit of reality sets in.

I feel great still! (guessing it will end soon) I am definitely going through lots of cravings... like lettuce wraps and coconut rice, KFC (a little ashamed to admit this) chips and salsa- but only the kid from the sit down mexican restaurant.I smell things differently, and my regular meals taste a little different...but at least I'm not throwing them up yet.

1st ultrasound

Its a little tiny mass. Thats all folks.

I was 5 weeks and mesured exactly that.

no heart beat yet. just a dot.

Thankfully my bladder was full so the tech did a good ol'fashioned ultrasound.

ALSO at this appointment- I got the prescription for lovenox. Lovely lovenox.

Bring the bruises on.