One More Gift

As the holiday season comes to an end, we have one more gift to share: we are having another baby.  Another baby!  Another wonderful, beautiful, new baby!  And he or she will be all ours come sometime mid-July!

We are nearing the end of the first trimester and I would say this pregnancy has been more or less identical to the pregnancy I had with Kate so far.  I've had less tenderness/soreness in my breasts than I did with the first pregnancy (perhaps they are now used to what breastfeeding entails?!) and I've had less afternoon/evening nausea than I did during my first pregnancy (perhaps my body is accustomed to the surge of hormones now!?), except over the last week I started having pretty consistent 24/7 nausea which is really uncomfortable.  I'm hoping this is fleeting since we are nearing the end of our twelve week mark.  Other than that it has been very similar.

I feel a lot more tired being pregnant for the second round but during the first round I wasn't chasing around a toddler, so that very well may be what is causing the extra exhaustion!  We have confirmed there is only one bambino residing on board the mother ship so my tiredness is not due to muliples for those of you wondering...

We had our first doctors appointment on December 4th where we confirmed we were expecting and confirmed this pregnancy was a singleton.  We also confirmed our due date of July 16th, based on baby's size and my last missed period.

1st appointment/1st ultrasound: approx. 7.5 weeks.  Heart beat was 150.
Confirmation of one bambino.  (Phew!)  ;)

And on the last day of 2014, we had our level 1 ultrasound with the Maternal Fetal Medicine group and got to see a lot more of our confirmed healthy, growing bambino!

2nd ultrasound: approx. 12.5 weeks.

And check out how cute this little baby is stretching and getting cozy in utero:

The ultrasound technician said baby was already snuggling up against Mommy!  Do we have another Mama's girl in there or is it a Mama's boy?!  Seeing our little baby snuggle up against me melted my heart.  I mean, it was one of the most adorable things I have ever seen!  ❤  We have already fallen in love.

Snuggled and cozy!  Mommy's here sweet baby! 

So, that's it!  Now you know why I have been going to bed at an ungodly early hour, leaving my "Erin-time"/blog time dwindling to absolutely zero throughout the day.  That's a fair excuse, right?!  We're making a baby over here, people!

Stay tuned!  We'll be sharing more as the pregnancy continues and finding out if we will be decorating in blue or more pink come sometime in February!