A Pregnancy Journey - Am I ready?

Am I ready?


That is the question that I don't have the answer for. Do any of us really know if we are ready for that next challenge? Well weather I'm ready or not in Aug 2011 there will be another bub or two joining our family.



I'm currently 10weeks pregnant with our 3 or 3 and 4th bub. Don't know how many we made this time as we haven't had a scan yet. We got our BFP on the 10/12/2010, but I had the signs there before I even thought that we would or could be pregnant. It all started one Monday night when I was watching two of my favorite shows Hellcats and Vampire Diaries. In the space of 2hrs I went to the loo 4 times, so every half an hr which I thought was a bit odd but didn't put 2 and 2 together. We had only started TTC a few months ago and because it took us a year to fall pregnant with our twin girls there was no way in the world I thought it would happen so fast.




Then the cravings started all before we took a test. I argued with DH that they weren't cravings it was just I really felt like eating that particular meal. And never mind that my Rotti has a habit of sleeping right next to my bed when I'm pregnant and of course he started doing that but I just thought it's to hot for him to sleep in his bed so he is stretched out under the fan. So when AF didn't show up I thought oh hand on a min I prob should do a test, so I went and brought one but didn't do it for a few days as I didn't want to get my hopes up and be disappointed and go through it over and over again like last time. So when I finally did test well HELLO 2 dark lines straight away. Yep I am pregnant, so I took picture on my phone and sent it to DH cos he was working. He was speechless, but over the moon.




So I rang up my Doctor to get an appointment and of course the first one available was Dec 21st well that was no good as that was the day we left to go down to Vic for Christmas. So Christmas came and went and we got to tell immediate family down there and other immediate family on the phone as they are in a different state but they were all so excited and one of their first questions was "How many are there this time?" Our answer "We have no idea"

So once we got back home I rang the Doctors again to get an appointment and got one but it isn't until the 12th Jan, so I'll be 11weeks along by the time I see the Doctor for the first time.. opps.... At least I can kill 2 birds with 1 stone and get the referrals for my 12wk scan and the bloods in the one hit, instead of having initial bloods then going back to get my scan referral and more bloods.




My morning sickness hasn't been to bad, I haven't chucked up this time round yet, although I only did twice or maybe three times with the girls. I just feel yuck for most of the day but it is getting better. But I think the worse thing is this time around is I am so tired! I just want to sleep 24/7 but thats a bit hard with DH at work and twin toddlers that want my attention majority of the time.




Im just wondering how on earth I'm going to manage a newborn or two and two toddlers... hmmm Although you never get dealt anything in life that you can't handle. Well I hope so anyway. I never thought I'd be able to mange twins but I've done it and it wasn't that bad and now I look at mum's with only one baby who say oh it's so hard and I think to myself I'll take your one baby and raise you two.




The one thing I'm not looking forward to is sleepless nights, oh how I love my sleep although this bub/bubs are already keeping me up. I forgot how much you went to the loo in that first trimester. I remember the last one trimester when I had two heads sitting on my bladder, but the first trimester I can't remember it being this bad.



Well I can't wait to find out if we have one or more in there, but we are both praying for one this time round. We'll soon see, but if it's another set of twins I'm sure that somehow we will manage and MBP will be my life line and the mum's that have done two sets already I take my hat off to you.


Alana (aka Mattnalana)