Okay, unless you live under a rock or have no access to social media or haven't talked to me in three months, we are pregnant! Yay! This was a huge blessing and true miracle given the circumstances. EDD is October 9 and we are thrilled! So back to the pregnancy update, I have been told recently I should blog about my pregnancy given some stories that result from my current state. So here I am.
Let me just start off by saying that this is by far the hardest pregnancy, now whether that is because I have two toddlers to still run after solo or my body is just saying "no more babies!" Which lets face it, my body rebelled hard against trying for another pregnancy. What ever the reason may be, we are 3 and done people. My husband likes to respond to that by saying " we will see" but I have the parts (and these parts already feel like they are falling apart at just 15 weeks in) and I am the one that has to go through it all, so I say 3 and done.
The biggest difference this pregnancy is the sickness. Oh my word people, I just thought I had bad "morning sickness" with K.. From week 5-12 I was seriously not able to function, my husband likes to say I was "physically incapacitated" I wouldn't go that far but I will say that I could not move without feeling severely sick. It was all I could do to shuffle myself around my house to help care for my kids. And while its not as severe as it was (Praise God!) it is still there. The biggest lie on this Earth is that "morning sickness" goes away after the first trimester. In fact, next time I see my doc I plan on giving him a piece of my mind for giving me such hope. Along with this lovely relentless nausea comes a constant bad taste in my mouth, I didn't have this in my other pregnancies either. No matter what I eat, its always there. Always. Its like a pesky fly that keeps buzzing around you, just to let you know its there and its going to irritate the crap out of you.
Let's move onto cravings.. The cravings are real y'all, seriously. Of course right before I found out I was pregnant, the hubs and I started a financial class (Financial Peace University) basically to try and get out of our student loan debt. Great class and Dave is a pretty awesome guy BUT bad bad timing to start FPU during the first trimester of pregnancy when there are just a few foods you can tolerate. I remember very vividly our next to last session, our instructor asked us if we had any "confessions" I boldly raised my hand, well as boldly as I could in my sick zombie like 9 week pregnancy state, and said "yes, I do. I have been spending 3/4 of our budget on food, but dang it Dave has never been pregnant and never will be so he just doesn't understand the need for certain foods. I can't just go into my pantry and come up with something to eat (heck I can barely stand to walk into my pantry). Our instructor laughed pretty hard and said that was the first time he had heard that and he was going to call into Dave and tell him he had a student say that. Now whether he did or not, I don't know, but I am pretty sure I embarrassed the hubs pretty good that night. So with that being said, specific cravings are SWEETS, anything SWEET. Fruit, doughnuts, cheesecake, pie, ice cream, cinnamon rolls, etc. Gotta have it. For quite some time I was constantly craving bleu cheese.. I think its on the 'no no list' of what not to eat in pregnancy, but I ate it anyways. One thing I will never quite understand is how severely nauseous I can be but seriously inhale almost an entire bag of chips in that same moment. Every 30 minutes to an hour, I am eating something, if I don't, this babe makes me pay. Oh yeah, thats not just a first trimester symptom either!
So for anyone who knows me, in my other pregnancies I craved the smell of laundry detergent. I craved it so much actually, my husband had to stop me from going into the laundry room. I could only get "4 sniffs a day" I am dead serious. I lived for the smell of laundry detergent in my other pregnancies, it was odd and honestly quite disturbing. Well of course #3 has to be different, get ready.. the smell of laundry detergent is extremely nauseating to me this time. I cannot believe it. As I type this, I have laundry going upstairs and I can seriously smell it and the nausea is so awful. I really can't stand the smell of anything this pregnancy, and let me tell you, I can smell anything in the world right now with this sense of smell.. but the fact that the smell of laundry detergent is nauseating to me almost makes me feel like I am not normal, I am not Darcie!
Last thing, I can't tell you how many people have asked both B and I if we are hoping for a girl. Would it be cool to have a girl? Sure! It would add a whole new dynamic to our family. Will I be absolutely devastated if this is another boy? NO! This babe is the biggest blessing, we prayed and prayed for this babe and God answered with this precious gift. I love our boys and adding a 3rd one to the mix would be so awesome! With that being said, we will find out in the next few weeks if we will be adding pink to the house or if the boys will be gaining another brother. Oh, for the record, even if its a boy, this woman is 3 and done!
