yikes!

Wow, I cannot believe that seven weeks have gone by since lasting updating this blog...This post is way overdue!

Tomorrow marks 19 weeks!!! I can hardly contain myself when I say this because for me that could really mean I am halfway done with being pregnant!  Don't get me wrong...I love being pregnant in some ways, but don't love it in some ways as well.  Today I am 18 weeks and 6 days, and the ticker at the top of my blog says baby is about the size of a sweet potato...that sounds just so sweet!

At 13 weeks I had another ultrasound  for the routine genetic testing that my doctors office offers.  Here are two pictures of Baby #4.

Feeling much better these days.  The morning sickness still comes and goes, but nothing bad at all.  We have our "halfway" ultrasound scheduled for next Tuesday and we ARE going to find out the gender of the baby and yes, we will be sharing the news after we have told family members.  Our guess is a girl, but you never know. 

Here is a picture from our family vacation of the baby bump, 17 weeks.

baby's first picture

Baby #4 - estimated due date February 3-7, 2012!

Second ultrasound today.  The tech found the baby right away, and it's heartbeat too!  Everything looks good.  The baby is measuring a little larger than 7 weeks and a couple days.  She is thinking that I am more closer to 8 weeks pregnant.





and it starts...

...the all day "morning sickness" that is.  Today was a horrible day.  The nausea was really settling in, everything smelled horrible.  And to top it off Tanner and Jason were still in school, I had an 11am ultrasound, and a 2pm dentist appointment for Tanner.

At the ultrasound the tech could not see the baby, so that was disappointing.  But she did say that didn't mean anything other than the baby might just be too small to see because I was still so early in the pregnancy.  Dr. Henderson recommended that I come back in one more week for another ultrasound.

The nausea has continued since then.  It definitely lasts all day long, just worse at times than others.  This is the hardest part, especially on my family.  I am hoping that it passes quickly.