9 week Belly

This is blurry but you get the idea, bigness. I am going to have to find a picture of me at 20 weeks with Isabelle because I think I was close to this. I took this today, this afternoon, I could've done evening when it's at it's BIGGEST but I didn't. I am neither sucking in or pushing out. Because I could've stunned you all with a shot at about 7pm pushing out.
All I know is, I weigh 11.8 lbs more right now than I did with my 1st pregnancy at 18 weeks. But then again, I haven't weighed that little for a couple years now.... :)

Update

9 weeks pregnant today, I'm improving, my stomach doesn't hurt AS bad. I have slept two nights without my a.n.b. :) I was able to function almost normally yesterday... almost.. I get pretty beat come late afternoon and feel gross but improvements....I've been able to exercise once a week and am hoping to get up to 3 times this week, I really don't want to lose my muscle strength, what little I've worked so hard to have. My belly is pooching, not just oh looks like you're bloated, but looks like I'm pregnant, I need the dr to tell me I'm not having twins so I'll believe it. I will have to take a picture soon. I want to chop my hair off I keep going back and forth, chopped to me will be no shorter than shoulders but if anyone has opinions let me know... maybe this is better fit for a facebook status update. :)
Oh yeah my thyroid tests came back in normal range so that's great, I haven't heard from endo yet on it though, so I'm guessing that's good. Next dr visit is in about a week, hopefully I'll get to hear the baby's heartbeat!!
I feel like the kids have said funny things lately but I can't seem to remember them....

Biggin

I can't stop eating those mini chocolate donuts... I can't, I even ate them in bed one night, they go down so easy and I'm so hungry and my stomach just hurts so much if I don't eat, I'm tired of eating but those donuts make it less of a drudgery.
I can't sleep good without my anti nausea "bullet". :) I have tried 3 random nights and it takes me a while to get to sleep even though I'm exhausted and I feel my stomach hurting more without it. The nurse wanted me to try taking unisom with b6 3 times a day and see if it helps which I think it might help me feel better during the day but I need my a.n.b. at night for good sleeping. I did however feel crappy today because of my not good sleep and my sinus headache I can't seem to shake. I took a 2 hr nap on the couch while Christian played mario kart and I could've slept more but he needed lunch. My belly is pooching a lot for 8 weeks if you ask me but I guess it happens with 3rd pregnancies... and chocolate donuts. Still waiting to see what my thyroid levels are. Here are some fall pictures.

8 weeks tomorrow

Tomorrow I'm 8 weeks pregnant and I go see the nurse for my medical history appointment, I also get my thyroid checked since changing my dose to 75 mcgs a day. I feel weak at times, morning is my best time and afternoons and evening leave me gross feeling. I keep getting these spells where I feel out of breath, and my heartrate is 100 bpm and today it was really racing at 120. So I'm interested to see what my thyroid is doing. When things simmer down my heartrate is closer to 80 bpm. Also Mitch, Dad and I have noticed while taking my pulse that it is irregular, it will beat beat beat, wait, beat again and or wait beat slower then speed up or skip a beat or what not. This has been going on for longer than I've been pregnant (the irregular part) and I plan on talking to the nurse about it and I don't know if it's anything to be concerned about or not. I just feel tired and weak and my stomach hurts a lot but I'm thankful I don't feel pukey. The 1st trimester would go a LOT faster if I felt good....

GRRR ARRGH

"does anyone understand, RAGING hunger, like, my stomach hurts so bad the hunger is literally about the crawl up and out of my throat and start punching people if it doesn't get fed, then it makes you nauseated. hmm just me?" -me
it's bad, last week I ate a whole totino's pizza, with my " morning sickness" and yes I felt kinda (REALLY) disgusting afterwards. pregnancy is a funny thing, about to puke one minute and frantically stuffing your face the next. I told Mitch I needed the pizza for my triplet boys lol. joke.

Yep

October 10th. Pretty amazing.

In other amazing news, I was able to almost be a normal person and make supper last night!!! Thank you Lord. Laundry like usual, eased back into my fav Namaste Yoga yesterday too. Could it be.. pulling out of this, this soon. Again, thank you Lord, so Gracious.

Tell Me about your day

When Mom and Dad were here, and I was feeling worthless, I would lay on the couch while Mom cooked supper and Isabelle would come and snuggle and tell me about her day. She tells me how she helps tie her classmates shoes. And how the once " mean girl" that hit her is now her friend and they play at recess together sometimes, how the " mean older boys who throw rocks at recess" are now nice, and hold the door and help her open her cookies at lunch. She also told me while out sick with the flu last week she missed her teacher. She also told me how some boys in her class were finding and the teacher was going to have to call their moms. She also has many questions about the baby, like, " are you going to be sick forever?" I tell the bigger the baby gets the better I'll feel. She thinks the baby is a girl since she wants a girl. I hope we can always be close because I love the mother/daughter relationship. I know there will be lots of issues as she becomes her own woman but I'm hoping I'll be her go to girl when she grows up and realizes what's really up. :) Right now I'm enjoying the snuggles and sharing.

My Burning Update

Ugh, the burning stomach, chest , upper back, lump in my throat. While my nausea is slowly subsiding... ( I do often get a nauseous wave before forcing myself to eat, and at other random moments, I also have a general queasy gross feeling, but I'll take small steps) the acid heartburn issues are just plain ugly, I had them with all kids, and they went away when the morning sickness with Isabelle and the acid was the best with her, nausea the WORST, Christian was acid lumpy throat bad the till the day I birthed and I just accepted it cause I had thyroid issues taking precendence. And this time it's both like I said and it's not fun. The dr's office said to call if I'm not doing better by monday. So some improvements, I'm functioning at a low capacity, I can accomplish a little, but I feel groudy pretty much. I just look at my sweet kids and know this is all worth it for another. And to all you Mom's who just don't get sick when you're pregnant, consider yourself freaking lucky. :)

The word " Rest" is full of Heaven

Our hope in Christ for the future is the mainspring and the mainstay of our joy here. It will animate our hearts to think often of heaven, for all that we can desire is promised there. Here we are weary and toilworn, but yonder is the land of rest where the sweat of labour shall no more bedew the worker’s brow, and fatigue shall be forever banished. To those who are weary and spent, the word “rest” is full of heaven. We are always in the field of battle; we are so tempted within, and so molested by foes without, that we have little or no peace; but in heaven we shall enjoy the victory, when the banner shall be waved aloft in triumph, and the sword shall be sheathed, and we shall hear our Captain say, “Well done, good and faithful servant.” We have suffered bereavement after bereavement, but we are going to the land of the immortal where graves are unknown things. Here sin is a constant grief to us, but there we shall be perfectly holy, for there shall by no means enter into that kingdom anything which defileth. Hemlock springs not up in the furrows of celestial fields. Oh! is it not joy, that you are not to be in banishment forever, that you are not to dwell eternally in this wilderness, but shall soon inherit Canaan? Nevertheless let it never be said of us, that we are dreaming about the future and forgetting the present, let the future sanctify the present to highest uses. Through the Spirit of God the hope of heaven is the most potent force for the product of virtue; it is a fountain of joyous effort, it is the corner stone of cheerful holiness. The man who has this hope in him goes about his work with vigour, for the joy of the Lord is his strength. He fights against temptation with ardour, for the hope of the next world repels the fiery darts of the adversary. He can labour without present reward, for he looks for a reward in the world to come.

Facebook | Audrey

"the dr update is this, perscribed pepsid for the acid issues, anti nausea suppositories :) for the real bad moments, unisom to sleep at night and b 6 3 times a day. and I had a great night's sleep from 8:8:30 this morning and the pepsid really seems to help the acid!! I did lose 2 lbs from my nasty 4 days. for those of you that cared, thank you"

If you want to pray....

I've been feeling like crap the past few days. Morning sickness has set it, along with sour stomach and heartburn. I have also had an unprecedented 3 nights in a row of really horrible anxiety attacks. LAst night was a better night no attacks but I woke about every hr or more with my stomach just hurting. I am to the point where I can't hardly eat and my bowels are quite frankly pooped out. I called the ob nurse today and she has taken pity on me and I'm being seen today. I told her about when I was pregnant the first time and although I did not puke once I did lose 9 lbs in a month because I could barely eat. And I tend to be a diarrhea person vs puking. TMI yes yes I know. Also I don't want to get to the point of puking because my baby needs my thyroid meds. I told her I was doing everything I knew to do and yada yada.
So if you want to pray for me, I would greatly appreciate it. With the way I feel I'm guessing I'm housing a girl... I could be wrong but that's been my guess even before I felt this ill. I was SO hoping that this would be my best pregnancy it being my third. The Lord has other better plans I guess. :)