As previously posted, I am indeed pregnant with my second child. I will be 21 weeks tomorrow, officially past the "half way" mark, and I'm happy to say I finally seem to have hit my second trimester stride. The first trimester brought nausea, food aversions, mirgraines, exhaustion, etc. Throw in the holidays, lots of traveling, a bad cold and chasing around a two year old and you've got some less than amazing few months. But now the only thing that really seems to effect me is being tired and worn out (which I here is par for the course, esp with the second pregnancy).
I have had many, many doctor appointments with many more to come. So far, everything is looking pretty darn good. I have been on Lovenox for about two months now and it's going OK. The shots aren't too bad, I've gotten pretty used to the twice a day injections... The part that really stinks is what comes next - Lots of bruising and soreness all over my belly and in the past week or so I've had a lot of itching at the injection sites :( But, my heart is good, everything is going well and I basically feel like a "normal" pregnant lady. As for the baby, everything is developing nicely, so far there are no signs of defects or abnormalities and he is measuring nice and big. Yes, I said "he" - We are having another BOY! <3
Not the best pic, but here I am at about 20 weeks
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