Should I be nervous...

Week 6-9 were a piece of cake compared to week 10. And I suspect it is just the beginning of this stage of morning sickness. I am trying to be a lot more proactive this time and try to eat every 2-3 hours but it really is a big pain in the butt to do that at work. I am in the mode of counting down to week 14-16. I remember being sick with Olivia until I was five months along but I think it started to wear off somewhere around week 16. So hopefully Thanksgiving can be enjoyable and I should be feeling awesome by the time Christmas comes.

And it seems like my sense of smell really picked up or more smells just make me sick. And this might be TMI but what about bladder incontinence when I am gagging/throwing up. I don't remember that being a problem with Olivia or after having her except when my bladder was super full and I had to sneeze. Being pregnant this second time around is totally different.

I know I have many many more months to go before the baby comes but the thought just came to me. Should I be nervous? How is this going to impact Olivia? How will I handle having two kids? There are days when Olivia pushes me to the edge, I can't imagine having a newborn and a toddler on those days. I read a book and half the people had an easier transition from 1-2 and others really struggled. I know I am just being a worry wart but imagine expecting moms and TTC moms think about this all the time.

Olivia amazes me

So I was lazy tonight and behind on putting Olivia to sleep but lucky for me Olivia took the initiative. She must have been tired because she found her pajamas and changed her own clothes. She even put her dirty clothes in the hamper. She got her sleeping bag and laid it out on the floor next to our bed and tucked her self in. Usually I make her sleep in her own bed but tonite I made an exception. I don't know if my two year is trying to outsmart me or she is just super responsible. Oh well. I will enjoy it for now.

On a side note I am halfway done with my Christmas shopping. :)

Christmas is just around the corner

We have less than 2 months until Christmas and I am not going to wait this year to buy presents. So my goal is to get 90% of my Christmas shopping done by December 1. I know I might be driving Mike a little crazy since it isn't Halloween yet so sorry in advance.

Anyone else already started or maybe already finished with Christmas shopping.

Olivia and Gatorade

My goal is to not post another complaint about pregnancy for today so this post is about Olivia and Gatorade. Mike bought me some gatorade last night and he told Olivia that it was juice and he gave her a sip. After she tasted it she called it popsicle juice. I thought it was cute.

Olivia is growing fast and her vocabulary is growing at a huge rate and she is getting better at forming her sentences. It is cool to see how much she learns in such a short amount of time.

She loves Toy Story 3 and watches it daily. Woody is her favorite character. Her favorite movie use to be Beauty and the Beast and she would walk around the house with her book and sing and pretend she was Belle. So imaginative.

She does and says a lot of funny stuff everyday but I am terrible with remembering lately and actually blogging it. I guess that is how it goes sometimes.

I told my boss. What a relief!

I told my boss today that I was pregnant and he was so awesome about it. He congratulated me and was genuinely happy for me. The Director of our department is actually retiring in December which means my current boss will be the interim Director and more than likely there will be organizational changes which will give me a more permanent and better position even though I am new to the organization. Talk about a lot of pressure.

My plan currently is to keep working and come back to work. Really I can't plan for anything else because there are no other concrete options. The thing that my boss said to me that made me feel so much better is to plan and work as if I was going to work after the baby comes and if I decide to quit let the department worry about that mess and not to take it upon myself to do that. Really I couldn't have asked for a better response. It really does make a difference in satisfaction in my job when my boss actually cares about his employees as people and not just workers.

On a side note, it is kind of funny to see the guys at work filter their comments and responses now that a lady is present in the room. I can't imagine what it would be like to witness an all male workforce.

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Pleasant surprise

So Mike and I love the birthing center. All the midwives are so nice and personable. I was too early to hear the heartbeat but luckily they gave me an ultrasound. It was so cool to see the baby. The heartbeat was strong and we saw it kicking it's feet around and jumping around like a bean. It was a nice surprise.

Olivia was very concerned when I had to get my blood drawn. She held my hand the whole time. It was sweet.

10 weeks. Finally double digits. I can only hope the morning sickness gets better but I am realistic that this could last until Christmas. But I have Thanksgivings to look forward too and Christmas and New Years and after that I will be twenty weeks and we get to find out the sex. Trying to stay positive even though I feel terrible and I sometimes wonder why did we do this again and then I remember that we will have a sweet baby this spring.