Its been a while!

Its been just about 6 weeks since I last updated! I was sooo sick there for a while. I've had one O.B. appt since I last updated and it was an interesting one. My doctor prescribed me some medicine for all my morning sickness, first he gave me phenergan which kind of worked but made me very, very tired and then he ended up perscribing me zofran. Zofran is a miracle drug in case you were wondering. It has saved my life. It got me through not only through my terrible morning sickness but it got me through the flu twice in 6 weeks. Back to my doctor appt. He said that typically when you go into labor early the first time you will with the second as well, and also that when your labor is quick (mine was an hour and a half) that it is usually quicker in the next labor. So, he would like to start checking my cervix earlier this time around and if I start dilating early he will do an amniocentesis at 36 weeks to check for the baby's lung maturity. If the baby's lungs are ready he will induce me at the 36 week point following the amnio. He wants to keep things under better control this time around. He is worried that if I go into labor on my own I will go so quick that things will be chaos again and I may not be able to have an epidural. I'm still not sure if I want one this time around or not. The amniocentesis really scares me though, its a big needle they stick in your stomach to take some amniotic fluid to test for various things. I have heard it doesn't hurt. So other than all my worrying I am finally starting to feel better on my own now that I am in my 12th week of pregnancy (as of tomorrow I'll be 13 weeks). This pregnancy has been difficult to say the least. I am definitely ready to get into my 2nd trimester. I remember feeling great during the middle couple months with Thomas. We should be finding out the sex of our baby in about 3 weeks! Time is starting to fly by! If the baby is a girl we have already picked out a name, Sophia Gianna/Gionna. If it's a boy, we'll be back to the drawing board. I had Sophia picked for Thomas if he was going to be a girl so it was an easy pick. Outside of baby updates nothing much has been going on except I GOT ENGAGED! Finally =) I really couldn't be any happier. We will set a definite date after we have the baby, but we are aiming for fall of 2011. I can't wait. I'll post some pictures of my ring and my 12 week belly below! Thanks for reading! =)

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