Pregnancy

Johnnie has been ready for baby #2 for quite a while now. Me - not so much. I finally decided I was ready and thought it would be nice to have baby #2 in the spring of next year. I loved the time of year that I was pregnant with Olivia. Olivia was conceived at the end of June and born in March. I didn't want to wait until then to start trying in case it took longer to get pregnant this time around. So I thought about it and decided the earliest month I would want to have a baby is December and the latest is May. So we started trying in April - it worked - and I was given a due date of December 28th! My first doctor's appt was May 5th (I was 6 wks) and my due date was changed to January 3rd. Let's back up to when I took the pregnancy tests - I bought a pack of 3. I took the first one on Tuesday April 19th. I needed to make a dentist appt for an exam, xrays and a cleaning so I thought I should make sure I wasn't pregnant before I called to make the appt. The test was negative so I called to make the appt and they said someone had just cancelled and I could come in the next day. I took the second test the next morning before I went to the dentist. Negative again. So I went to the dentist and they did all that stuff. I cried and was super emotional during the exam because the hygienist told me she loved my necklace and asked me where I got it. It was a Christmas present that I had received this past Christmas. My mom got it for me and put it under the tree with a tag that it was from my brother. It's really pretty and has a sparkly bird on the front of the charm and on the other side it says "fly free." I had no idea why but as soon as she mentioned my necklace my eyes welled up with tears and I told her it was from my brother and that he had passed away. She probably thought I was such a freak. And I was! Normally when someone comments on the necklace they just say - I like your necklace and I say thank you. But she just kept going on and on about it and it just got me all upset and I couldn't quit thinking about how much I missed my brother and it was really weird. I was a mess but tried my best to suck it up and think about something else. She was really cool about it and changed the subject and we moved on to the x-rays and then the cleaning. I got a little upset during the cleaning also because my mouth is TINY and I was so uncomfortable. I didn't cry but I just got tears in my eyes and she could tell I was DONE. It was just a really weird experience and I couldn't wait to just go home and take a nap and forget about it. OH - but after the cleaning she asked me, "You aren't pregnant are you?" I said, "nope, just took a test this morning to make sure." Then she squirted some sort of anti-microbial mouthwash into my mouth. I immediately thought - what if the test was wrong or its just too early to tell so when she gave me the little sucking thing and told me to suck that stuff out I SURE DID. I made sure I ingested as little as possible of that stuff. So the next morning I get up and take that third pregnancy test. Positive - are you kidding me?!?! I just had x-rays the day before and that anti-microbial stuff! So I immediately called the dentist to get the name of that stuff. Then I called my OB to tell them what happened. UGH! No WONDER I was such a weirdo at the dentist. My hormones were obviously all out of whack! The nurse asked me if my belly was covered for the x-rays, I said yes and she told me to not worry. Then she asked me if I swallowed or sucked out the mouthwash. She said I would've had to ingested a pretty good amount of it for it to harm the baby. Whew! So at my first doc appt on May 5th I was only 6wks and all the sonogram showed was that I was pregnant. It was too early to see a heartbeat. So we went back two weeks later on May 19th. My due date was changed to January 3rd. My doctor is not going by the first day of my last period since I was using an ovulation predictor and I knew exactly what day I had ovulated. She is using that day because it makes the most sense with the baby's measurements and is obviously more accurate. It did not take long for me to start getting morning sickness. Then afternoon sickness, evening sickness, middle of the night sickness, etc... I did not get sick when I was pregnant with Olivia so this was all new to me. I also started feeling pressure down below early on and worried that something could be wrong but my doctor assured me that it was normal for a second pregnancy. So I've been feeling like I did when I was 7-9 months pregnant with Olivia since around month 2 which took some getting used to. My belly got bigger sooner and I had so much pressure and fatigue and I kept thinking, "omg this is obviously not going to get better, it will get continually worse as the days, weeks and months go by - yikes." Fortunately and surprisingly it did get better. It took quite a while but I do not have that pressure every day, just some days. And I don't feel tired all day every day like I was thinking I would. Today I am 28 weeks and feeling great! When I think back on all the things that have happened since I got pregnant it makes me feel like I've been pregnant forever. Which just means I will be having this baby SOON! Right after we found out we celebrated Easter, have gone to a ton of kids' birthday parties, did the Firemens 5K for the 2nd anniversary of Zach's accident, spent several weekends at the lake house with Nana and Paw Paw, spent lots of time trying to keep cool by swimming at friends houses or at Hawaiian Falls, went to Colorado with my parents, found out we are having a BOY (Zachary Ross Hayes) and the biggest thing of all - my baby girl started PRESCHOOL!!! I'm sure I left something out but I have a terrible memory these days and also have not picked up the camera much over the past several months. I'm hoping that will change soon. I love taking pics of Olivia in the fall at all the pumpkin patches and at my parents house outside when the weather is cool. I'm hoping the weather will get much cooler than it has been soon so we can spend more time outside. I LOVE fall decorations and Halloween decorations and have been slowly dragging them all out so hopefully by the end of the week it will look like fall threw up all over my home - inside and out :)