5 Weeks

Today I am 5 weeks pregnant! I'm cautiously optimistic that we will bring home at least 1 baby in June at this point. I will feel a lot better after about 8 weeks, but I also don't want to wish time away. Right now I am enjoying being pregnant. I'm exhausted, nauseous, my back is killing me, and I could not be any happier. The kids know we are expecting and that we will know soon how many babies will be joining our family. They have been really good about helping with things and letting Matt do bedtime right now so I can rest. My morning sickness hits about 2 PM and gets worse until bedtime. Every day it gets worse too so I know in about a week I won't be keeping much down. My hips are also both really sore from shots so after we do that each night I am pretty much done. All I can do is lay around with my heating pad for 20 minutes on/20 minutes off until I fall asleep.

I'm counting calories with this pregnancy and that is totally new for me. I didn't pay attention to what I ate at all with either other kid and wasn't concerned about gaining weight. This time I would like to gain about 20 lbs if it is only one baby. I'm eating about 2000 calories (dr recommended), but I still can't workout. I got on the treadmill for 45 minutes the other day, but then I needed a nap! That should get better in a few weeks though. I'd like to stay fairly active so I'm not dying after this kid is born and I try to run again. I haven't been able to run for weeks so I'm sure it will be rough when I start again anyways. I want to up my walking mileage though while pregnant in hopes of running the half next year at the Dallas Marathon. We will see if I can actually pull that off. If I have another c-section I probably won't be able to so I'm pushing for a VBAC. My doctor is awesome and totally ok with it.

That's it. 5 weeks down, 35-ish left!