Happy New Year!

"We are pulling upwardly ane to a greater extent than chair to the table... Baby #5 due June 2016!"

The in conclusion fourth dimension I wrote a weblog postal service was on Nov 1st, 2015.... hence Happy New Year!

What's been going on over hither amongst me?! Well, commencement of all, nosotros are expecting again! Baby #5 is due June 2016. We are thrilled. Of class nosotros are hoping that this ane is a girl. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 friend of mine amongst iv boys latterly gave nascence to her 5th together with it was a girl. I experience similar at that spot is *hope* but I also experience that afterward delivering 4 boys, it is a chip of a long shot. Who knows. Fingers crossed, right? I'm sixteen weeks correct forthwith hence nosotros should honour out inward the side past times side 2-4 weeks what the sex is of infant #5.

I intend the biggest argue I haven't blogged inward hence long is that this pregnancy was off to a actually rocky start together with it sent me into a chip of a depression. Initially the pregnancy didn't facial expression viable. The ultrasounds didn't facial expression proficient together with nosotros weren't given much hope. In fact, they ran bloodwork to dominion out some other molar pregnancy. We've already had two miscarriages together with the idea of a third-- together with perhaps some other molar-- actually set me low. I basically set on my couch, prayed a lot, together with watched NCIS on Netflix.

On move past times of that, I was having major "morning sickness." I'm putting it inward quotes because I couldn't proceed hardly anything down at all times of the day. Eventually I got on Zofran, which helped a lot, but I was notwithstanding having difficulties amongst nausea together with occasional vomiting, fifty-fifty on Zofran. I didn't experience good together with I was actually stressed almost the number of this pregnancy, which is pregnancy #6 for us. Some people tried reassuring me that "pregnancy symptoms" were a proficient sign together with hence I should experience encouraged, but I had pregnancy symptoms amongst all my miscarriages every bit well. The vomiting didn't brand me experience reassured that my pregnancy was progressing-- well, salvage for the twenty-four hr menstruum that I didn't throw up. Then I spent the eventide sobbing that I had lost the baby... It was an emotional fourth dimension together with ane that I lost a bunch of weight.

Thankfully the pregnancy is progressing well. They aren't actually certain why the ultrasounds showed what they did because forthwith everything is looking good. The infant is measurement well. I'm hence thankful. I went into this pregnancy hoping for the best together with expecting the worst. The possibility of some other tooth ever looms inward the dorsum of my mind, every bit does a miscarriage. However, when facing it, I was surprised at how hard I took it this time. I don't intend this is something that ever gets easier together with quite perhaps exclusively gets harder. My prayers leave of absence to everyone who has had a unmarried miscarriage or multiple miscarriages. It is such a hard loss.

As shortly every bit everything amongst the infant started looking good, nosotros got unexpected tidings that my grandmother had a stroke. The children together with I rapidly got our affairs inward gild together with flew to the E coast to hold upwardly amongst her together with my family. We spent a calendar month there. It was wonderful existence at that spot for her recovery together with to run into my family. The children thrive surrounded past times their grandparents together with great-grandmother. Of class that trip didn't instruct quite every bit expected either. Our 4-year erstwhile asthmatic ended upwardly inward the ER amongst croup. Our 1.5 twelvemonth erstwhile amongst reactive airways ended upwardly inward the ER amongst RSV. All iv boys came downward amongst a tum põrnikas together with and then shared a major mutual frigidity amongst all the adults. My mom lost her voice. I was using my inhaler at night. It was a whirlwind of hospitals for both my grandmother together with the children. The in conclusion calendar week nosotros were at that spot was refreshing though. We were all feeling ameliorate together with my grandmother was home, pretty much dorsum on her feet. The boys were over the Luna Granny was "feeling better," every bit they kept saying. One nighttime our 1st grader told Granny that he flew all the means across province simply to laissez passer on her a hug. It brought her to tears. She is hence loved together with it was hence proficient to assist her recover together with to pass fourth dimension amongst her.

This past times calendar week we've been adjusting to the alter inward fourth dimension zones. Man, who knew that could hold upwardly such a chore! Our 1.5 twelvemonth erstwhile has come upwardly downward amongst every form of rash nether the Sun addition a cold. He's having a hard fourth dimension sleeping at all, allow solitary amongst the fourth dimension change. Our preschoolers accept been broad awake unopen to 3:30-4:00 am. Our oldest is finally dorsum inward school, forthwith that nosotros are home. He's patently doing good at school, but when he gets abode he is starving together with really tired. He vicious asleep on the couch his commencement twenty-four hr menstruum dorsum correct earlier six pm.

So basically, the children accept been keeping us busy. We've been dealing amongst life together with wintertime ailments together with pregnancy. It sounds similar a lot (and sometimes feels similar a lot), but we've pretty much been indoors tending to the kids' colds together with using inhalers. I create experience similar somewhere during the past times twosome weeks I set my encephalon downward somewhere together with I'm notwithstanding looking for where I set it. If I sit down downward for also long, I autumn asleep together with I haven't been this hungry since I grew 5" during my freshman twelvemonth of high school.

Now nosotros are abode together with settled (er, settling... I accept unpacked similar 2 of the 8 suitcases nosotros flew abode with). I am create to opened upwardly up again, weblog again. The pregnancy is going well. My grandmother is doing well. The boys are doing well. My hubby is doing well. We are dorsum to the twenty-four hr menstruum to twenty-four hr menstruum of life amongst iv children together with a married adult man on submarines.

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