28 weeks 2 days

I haven't been very faithful about posting lately. I just am extremely tired all of the time and don't want to have to think or use my brain at all! Needless to say, I still have to use my brain quite a bit, but I wanted to post more memories about this pregnancy for posterity sake.

From the beginning, I was playing basketball to get some exercise and was LOVING EVERY MINUTE OF IT! Before the morning (ALL DAY) sickness would hit me mid morning, it was great to get in the exercise, but then it just got worse and worse. Smells didn't really bother me much with any of the other kids, but this little girl put me over the edge. I ABSOLUTELY COULDN'T stand the smell of anything: perfume, shampoo, raw meat, laundry detergent, you name it...I didn't like it. That left me with not wanting to cook anything at all. If I had the choice and money, I would have eaten out every day, ALL DAY LONG. But, even the smell of restaurants didn't hit me too well.

For Halloween, we took the kids to a pumpkin patch and they had a bonfire outside. It was okay until we get back into the car. I hung my head out the window the whole way home to get the smell of fresh air. I had to wash everyones clothes that night and take a bath to get the smell off of me. This is just one instance and poor Cliff was sooooo sick of eating out he decided to take matters into his own hands and cook. One night he cooked some chicken in teriyaki sauce and that put me over the edge. I had to sit out in the freezing cold on the porch to stay out of the smell. The kids would keep coming to talk to me and every breath was making me want to bow to the porcelain god.

So the sickness wore off finally after my mother came and rescued me for a good 2+ weeks. She did the cooking and I could actually eat the food. I didn't throw up once while she was here. But, after she left, I started having pelvic pressure and some bleeding. I was so scared about losing the baby, but also knew that there wasn't much I could do to prevent anything from happening if it did. I went in to see the doctor and they told me that I could NO LONGER EXERCISE! Now, that was a bummer. Not only now had I put Cliff through eating out almost every night, but now I couldn't lift anything heavy...MY KIDS and I felt like a wimpy pregnant lady who has never had any of these problems before. So, after learning through 3 ultrasounds that everything was okay, I decided to start walking/easily jogging. After that one day, I had more pelvic pressure and since have decided I better not do anything just in case.

Now entering the 3rd trimester, I have the wonderful heartburn and ligament pains. My sciatic nerve is being pinched, sending pain down my leg. Oh, the joys of being pregnant! Is it worth it? YES, indeed it is with the end result in mind, but definitely not easy to go through...for anyone in the family.

So, with all this being said and done, this will be our last child. It was hard to come to that conclusion. But, I am very excited, just like Kalena, to have the opportunity to have one more girl come to our family. In fact she is so excited that for her superstar week at school we put on her poster a couple of the ultra sound pictures with the due date and for her 100 day project we made a 100 day count down chain. She pulls one of the chains off every day.