17 weeks - opps

I am very late getting this done, because it is the week before Christmas and I have been working an awful lot.
Last Friday, the 14th, was my first appointment with Jeanne and Pam. Leif and I drove over to St. Paul and went up for our meeting. We talked about my diet and how I need to eat more protein in the morning and thats why i get dizzy. We also talked about my itchiness and that I needed to drink more water. I told her about how i was feeling depressed and wanted everyone to leave me alone and when they didn't i got super angry. I weighed myself and i was 118 which is where I thought i had started. She sent me home with a little shopping list of red raspberry leaf tea, motherwort, and rescue remedy. I was a little leery of the tea and most things that look and smell like grass clippings can't taste much better, but it is pretty good. I am drinking 2 cups a day, because thats what my little tea ball holds.
Ryan comes tomorrow to stay with us for a week! I made him a welcome home banner last night at work so that he knows how much we love him and how happy we are to have him with us at Christmas. We are also having his favorite meal, angel hair with spaghetti sauce. I have to work from 11-3 after I pick him up :( , but then i am off til Saturday night! I really am blessed to be able to have people who are willing to switch with me. I haven't taken a new picture for this week either, but maybe we can get a family one on Tuesday.

13 Weeks Pregnant

I wanted to try and make this an every 4 weeks journal, but a lot has happened in the last 5 weeks so I didn't quite have the time. The morning sickness is completely gone, Praise God!, and I only have slight feelings of being lightheaded on occasion. During the worst of it, I started taking b-6 every day, and after about a week, it started to subside, and by 2 weeks it was gone. At 12 weeks I felt well enough to stop taking it and I have been doing great. I feel pretty tired in the evenings, but I am starting to believe that is coming to an end soon too.
We finished up all of our midwife interviews and have decided to use Jeanne Bazille. She is lovely and has 27 years of experience. She is in St. Paul and I will be going to her house for check-ups until the end of the pregnancy. I think she does a home visit in the last month. My appts with her will start at 15-16 weeks. Ryan has become completely comfortable with the idea of a homebirth since we have met with Jeanne.
Work is going AWESOME. It is the hight of holiday cardmaking season and we are very busy. On Monday I am going to be trained to teach classes. I am so excited about this. I have completed all 3 of our Christmas cards and Jenny's also. I need to finalize my mailing list though so that i can get the pictures printed. We are also going to make all of the gift tags for the presents this year, and I have decided to go with a penguin theme. I am going to get all of the stuff to make them, but save the assembly for when little Ryan gets here on the 23rd.
Leif is waking up so I better go for now. Next time i post it will be Christmas probably.

8 Week Pregnant

This is my attempt to track some of the highlights of my pregnancy for my third child. Once it is complete I plan to make a journal all scrapbook style.

I found out I was pregnant the morning of Thursday, September 20th. I was 4 days late and even though we had been trying to conceive for 7 months, I was still shocked. I had to think quickly to come up with a clever way to tell Ryan so I didn't have to keep it quite for too long. Leif and Ryan were going up to the cabin that weekend, so I decided I would pack a surprise in the bag and that way he would find it and be surprised. I got a little t-shirt that said big brother and I made a little card that was kinda baby-ish and said "Leif's going to be a big brother". I wrapped the whole thing in curly ribbons and put it on top so that when Ryan unzipped the bag to get Leif ready for bed it would be the first thing he saw. So when he called me that night to tell me that it was cold up there and that he had Leif all bundles up in his feety pajamas, I knew he would have seen the shirt and asked him how he liked his surprise.
"What surprise?"
ARE YOU KIDDING ME
...anyway I walked him through it, explained everything, and he was happy. Not giddy, not freaking out over the moon like I was, just happy. I think he was in shock.
His parents were up at the lake also and he told them the next day. They are excited and have told all the rest of the family.
I have gotten into action on the hunt for a midwife. This will be a homebirth. Ryan and Leif were both born naturally in the hospital, but I just don't feel like I need to go to the hospital again. I really want a more personal treatment from my caregivers and I secretly hope that Ryan will catch the baby. I told him that I was going to catch it myself and he said, "won't you be busy enough". i told him that he could do it then, and he kinda just went pale. We'll see.
This pregnancy has been ok so far. I feel like I am putting on a little weight, and things are moving around. I have felt tired and the last couple of days I am trying to ward off nausea.
I am planning to update this every 4 weeks, I am 8 weeks today.