Pregnancy #3, Baby #5, Weeks 13-18

Today is Thursday, December 6th and I am 13 weeks. I really have been SO tired this week. Oh my goodness, I wake up tired. I can't not seem to nap...when 1pm rolls around I can't keep my eyes open. Way more tired this time than I can ever remember with my previous pregnancies. I feel like even though my pants barely fit, I don't look too pregnant yet, which with Emily I looked pregnant right away. I have also been SO extremely thirsty all of the time. Like, oh my gosh, soooo thirsty. Also, my lower back has begun to hurt a little bit now too. Still dreaming like crazy, which I did in both of my other pregnancies. So many symptoms are so different this time around. It's amazing how the same person can have different pregnancies...but the only thing I am thinking is that IT'S A BOY!

Today is Thursday, December 27th and I am 16 weeks. FOUR MONTHS! I can't believe it's been 3 weeks since I last wrote on here. Phew. Lots have been going on. I had a sonogram on Christmas Eve, December 24th and all looks great with the little bean. He/She is doing well and weighs about 4 ounces. We got a "good guess" as to the sex of the baby too! ;) My next appt is on January 21st and then I will be having the anatomy scan that day so we will know for sure then what this little bean is. I just don't like to jump to conclusions quite yet because numerous doctors and nurses told me 110% that Natalee was a boy for three weeks before finding out she was totally a GIRL!

Here is a cute little photo of our alien:

I am pretty sure that at 14w6d, I first felt a few little flutters/kicks and I swear I felt a few every few days since then.

On Christmas Eve I got sick. Only the second time this whole pregnancy. I was REALLY hungry, waited too long to eat, shoveled food in my mouth and that was that. Boo. BUT, I am SO very thankful that I am not sick like I was my last two pregnancies. What a blessing it is not to be sick all day, every day!!!

My left index finger has been numb on and off and it's driving me nuts! I know this can be a pregnancy thing and it's happened to me before.

I have been SO extremely tired this pregnancy! Oh my goodness, like not functioning tired! I could easily sleep all day!

Still very thirsty all of the time and still getting headaches pretty regularly.

I still feel like I am barely growing this pregnancy but when the doctor felt my uterus, she said I was measuring perfectly, and I was assured everything looks great!

Exciting that I'm in my second trimester already!

Today is January 3, 2013, and I am 17 weeks. Feeling good. VERY, VERY, VERY tired and weak. Wouldn't surprise me if I am anemic again...and I will find out next week when I get my blood taken. I have been really focusing on eating lots of high iron foods this week.

I feel like I am finally starting to grow. Like, wow, I popped out just in the last two weeks.

Friday is my 27th birthday and the 2nd birthday in a row that I am pregnant! Phew! Four birthdays ago we were in the middle of IUI's, three birthdays ago I had just delivered the triplets only 11 days before, last birthday I was VERY pregnant with Emily and now I am in the middle of my pregnancy of this little bean. Be assured I WILL NEVER BE PREGNANT AGAIN ON MY BIRTHDAY OR ANY OTHER DAY FOR THAT!

Here I am on my 27th birthday (January 4th: 17w1d), pregnant with our fifth blessing:

The other day I was at the mall with my mom and this lady asked me if I was having my first baby and I just giggled and said, no this is my fifth. I almost fell to the when I said it. FIFTH. Like holy moly! FIVE! Sometimes it just hits me in strange ways. That was one of them. FIVE KIDS. EK! But, to be honest, I CANNOT wait to hold a new squishy little bean in my arms!!

Today is January, 10th, 2013, and I am 18 weeks. The past couple of days have bee rough. I was sick on Tuesday night after a full day of nausea and finally yesterday morning I broke down and took a zofran to be able to function throughout the day! It was not fun, but this was the first time I have needed a zofran, and for that I am VERY thankful! This pregnancy has been soooo much easier than my last two!

I am so looking forward to my appointment on Jan 21st and getting to the half-way point with this pregnancy!!! Also looking forward to so many of my friends delivering their babies in the next coming months. I have two close friends due any day and one more due in the spring! Babies, babies, babies! Couldn't ask for anything better! :)