March 30, 2014 - 7 Weeks

Wrote March 30, 2014

I'll be a little less formal this time around (hopefully this isn't the beginnings of our second born always getting "less").

I'm generally feeling "ok."  I looked back at my posts while pregnant with Zoe around this time, and I'm generally feeling the same.  The exhaustion has kicked in.  I'm trying to go to bed early (like 9).  This time around though, I have a toddler who sometimes has a different agenda in the middle of the night.  Add in the fact that she had a sinus infection that we let go way too far, and it's been a long week.  She's now just waking up and crying.  Which I don't know if she's gotten used to us running in the past week (we were trying to save her from coughing to the point of gagging) or if she's just going through one of her weird weeks again.  But I'd love a full night's sleep with no interruptions right about now.

I'm also absolutely starving all day.  I eat, and it seems like I'm starving just 10 minutes later.  cue everyone at work figuring out I'm pregnant before I actually announce it.  Again, I'm trying to make healthy choices by eating fruit and veggies and healthy crackers.  Interestingly, I'm craving salty food much more this time around as of now.  It'll be interesting to see if the different cravings mean different gender.

I don't have any real worries anymore now that we've seen the baby in the right place.  My main worries right now are all about what will happen when this baby is here - how will Zoe do, how will I take care of TWO little ones, how will work nights go now with two little ones.  But we'll figure it out just like we did the first time around.

I'm kind of excited to find out the gender this time around.  Although, I don't think it can top doing all that work and then hearing your baby cry, finding out the gender, and getting to hold that squishy person.  But Aaron was nice enough to let me have my way last time, that I figure I can try it his way this time :)

So far the main differences between this baby and Zoe, seem to be the type of food I'm craving as mentioned above and the lack of worry (or lack of time to worry).

I cannot wait to be able to tell people!  And now that this blog is public, I won't be able to post any of these updates until we start to tell everyone which is almost 6 weeks away.  That seems so far from now.  I told my sister already since I wanted to make sure that she was ok with the wedding dress.  She swore to secrecy.  We are telling family (and of course my BFF) around Easter...only 3 weeks.  Then we'll probably start to tell the rest of the world around 13 or 14 weeks when I'm out of the first trimester.  I hope this part goes by quickly.  I don't like keeping secrets.