6 Weeks

No real nausea, just F.A.T.I.G.U.E. I've always prided myself in my ability to sleep. It really is a gift. Now I am able to snooze while grocery shopping in Walmart, having a conversation with my husband, and fixing dinner. Amazing.

5 weeks plus change

No nausea yet, but I have been dizzy all day. Don't know what that's all about. And just feeling bloated. Like PMS gone bad (like it was ever good). I've already gained 3 pounds from pre-pregnancy weight. I WONDERED why, when we got back from vacation, I had gained weight when I had tried to be so good! Reason found. Passenger on board. Plus the extra 10 that I never lost after the LAST pregnancy, and that adds up to..... higher level math that I choose to not think about.

FOLLOWUP Beta HCG

Well, the HCG number is supposed to double. Mine MORE than did that. From 672 to 2205 in 48 hours. So, we've got a healthy growing baby in there. Or MORE than one baby?

Two pink lines and Easter Sunday

I told myself I would wait until Easter Sunday... that would make it an official week "late"... before taking a pregnancy test. I'd had too many disappointments before, and had wasted entirely too much money on those stupid tests. So last Saturday evening, I was doing bills. It was a looooonnnnggg session of doing bills, and when I looked at the clock on my computer, I realized it was past midnight. "It's Easter Sunday!" So, with amazing patience, at 12:39 am, I took the test. Then left and finished bills. I was certain that it would again show one lonely pink line, certain that my advancing age and general lack of fertility would once again tarnish a perfectly good holiday. When I went back at 1:30 a.m. to receive my disappointing news from the stick.... there it was. One pink line, and one FAINT second line. But it was THERE. I immediately ran downstairs to tell Rob. He wasn't thrilled about being woken up in the middle of the night. And he didn't say much.... something like "yeah, I already suspected". He knows my cycle better than I do. And then yesterday, I had a blood test taken. My HCG is 672 at 5 weeks. It's official. We're expecting baby #3!!!!! All four of us have been praying daily for this baby -- our last chance to complete the family. We've been waiting a long time for the little guy/gal. The boys don't know what they're saying when they pray "keep our baby safe", but they say it none-the-less, and I think prayers from the mouths of little ones go straight to the Father's ears!