Pregnancy Update – Weeks 1 – 10

Here is your first look of Baby 4!

I honestly thought when we were going into this ultrasound that there would not be a baby. We only took one pregnancy test and that was it! It was amazing to see this little one on the ultrasound. I thought it would be fun to give updates on this pregnancy — I love looking back on updates from past pregnancies

How did week 1 – 10 go for me

In a nutshell – ” it was normal”. It really was – I think I never got back to normal after Lachlan before jumping into this pregnancy. If you did not know I have morning sickness pretty much until birth in all my pregnancies so it was kinda the same.

I do have one strange pregnancy symptom that has happened all three times now that I have never heard happening to anyone else ( so if it has happen to you let me know). I cannot sit for very long. If I sit more than 10 – 15 minutes my uterus starts to cramp ( well maybe not cramp but feel uncomfortable) this goes on from week 4 – 9. After 15 minutes I start squirming in my chair. The ONLY thing that helps – and helps right away is laying on my side. I told my OB about this and he said he never heard of this before. It is not a big deal – but a bit odd

Morning Sickness – BOY do I get morning sickness. It is that all day throwing up and hating all food sickness. I have lost 8 pounds this pregnancy by week 10. Nothing works – ehhh it is fine. I just make sure to drink plenty of water.

Any issues? Not really? All my other babies by this point required bed rest from subchoronic hemorrhages. But I am happy to say this time around nothing out of the ordinary.

Did I do anything different this time? YEP! I did not allow myself to use a doppler or take more than one pregnancy test. When I became pregnant with the twins I took about 20 pregnancy tests to see that line get darker and use the doppler daily till I felt movement at 19 weeks. However, with Lachlan I took I think 3 pregnancy tests which was fine – however I used the heart beat doppler only ONE time which was at 10 weeks and I could NOT find a heartbeat. I tried for 15 minutes and NOTHING. I thought everything was over – I was a BALL of tears. It was a hot mess on EPIC portions.

I decided to try again but higher — I was planning on working my way down annnnndd I got the heartbeat right away. I was looking for the heartbeat in the wrong spot. SOOOOOOO…… we don’t talk about that anymore in my house.

After that – I swore to myself I cannot stress like that which is why this time around one test and no doppler – just trusting in my body doing what it needs to do.