The Updates

I guess a lot has happened here since November. The number one thing on my mind is that we are pregnant. According to the on-line calculators I am due sometime around the first of August. I actually go see a doctor for the first time next week and will post another update then. I am bummed that Dan will be out of town for the first appointment especially since we should be able to hear the heartbeat at 11 wks :(

It all started this summer really. Dan had decided about a year ago that maybe he didn't want anymore kids. That surprised me because I thought I'd be the first one to wimp out in that department. We both get total and complete enjoyment out of Sara, so much so that we can't even believe how lucky we are and how complete we feel with her. I was surprised he said he only wanted one because originally he said he wanted three but I was OK with it too.

Flash forward to this summer, I climbed a lot of mountain peaks and my body is kind of a pansy about it. Apparently high altitude distance hiking does all kinds of weird things to me that last for weeks. One of those thing being that I don't have any periods all summer when I hike in the mountains. Natural birth control I guess. So I didn't worry about anything like that for a long time. Then around October the monthly visitor was back with a vengeance.

In the mean time, Dan had decided that he wanted more kids but we hadn't talked about it. I still assumed that he didn't. So when I woke up the morning after Thanksgiving and had a funny feeling to take a pregnancy test, and when the second pink line appeared I was kind of floored and like oh crap! Then I told him and he was over the moon. He then confessed that he was really to have another child and was really hoping for it. I guess I was the last to know.

I'm on board with having a second child. I think it would be great. We have so enjoyed Sara that I see no reason our lives won't be twice as wonderful with two. However that's where I want to draw the line and now Dan seems to have decided he wants three again. Well, we're going to have to talk about that because I'm ready to be done Done! I don't think the whole pregnancy thing really suits me and I feel like after this I just want to concentrate on self improvement.
I would feel totally complete with two kids, we could fit them comfortably in our car, and in our house but not if we had three. Also I can't give up traveling and three would make that even more challenging. Plus if anything were to happen to Dan or to myself, I think I could raise two but would really find three stressful. But I'm not going to think about that now as I can only be pregnant with one at a time, I will concentrate on #2.

I am hoping for a girl. Dan says he'd be OK with either. I am thinking that it will be a boy however. I thought that the first time though so I could be wrong. My 1st trimester sickness has been a lot different this time. Instead of being sick only in the morning I have been sick all day long. Also I have felt an extreme amount of fatigue and some flu like symptoms. Now as I'm nearing 11 weeks however it seems to have let up some and I hope it stays that way.

I have tried to be extra active even though I'm lethargic and nauseous. I have been doing a lot of cross country skiing. I even pulled Sara in the ski trailer this week, she is really getting heavy. Also I've been doing a lot of Zumba in our basement and I love it. I need to start picking up more Zumba classes too. I plan on exercising until I just can't. It makes me feel better all the way around.

My number one worry about this pregnancy is that I'll have high blood pressure problems like I had with Sara. I am trying not to think about that though and just hoping that keeping my stress down will help.

I am feeling down that I won't make it to the family reunion in Hawaii in June. I have tried not to think about it but it does make me really sad. Sometimes I feel like I'll never get to go to Hawaii but I just keep hoping for someday and I do think it will come but the question is how many more years...