on sharing

so i thought i would share and explain why i posted about my pregnancy and haven't written anything since.  it's not that i'm not excited about this baby or that i don't want to share.  it's just the last two weeks have brought us a few scares.  i have been contemplating whether i should write about it or not and came to the conclusion that i should. 

i'm 11 weeks pregnant this week ... i know i shared early, but things were all on the up and up and i was excited to share the news.  about a week and a half ago some things started to happen that weren't "normal" and we i got freaked out.  my pregnancy was completely uncomplicated with liam, until 37 weeks.  my blood pressure skyrocketed and i was threatened with induction.  luckily liam heard that and decided to come out all on his own.  but other than that there was nothing out of the ordinary.  this pregnancy on the other hand has been all kinds of different.  firstly i am so so so sick.  at first it was an all day thing and now it seems that once 5 pm hits i'm nauseous and food is the most revolting thing ever.  i've been throwing up consistently at night for the last 3 weeks.  yuck, so done with this.  but this has been the scary thing.  i started to have some cramping one night that wouldn't let up.  not alarming on its own.  however it was coupled with spotting too.  freaked out and crying (i'm an emotional basket case too) i called my midwife.  she managed to calm me down but was also concerned and sent me for a bunch of tests the next day to check things out. 

it turns out that both the bleeding and cramping were (most likely) the result of a uti.  i've been lucky enough to never experience one of these lovely things until now.  i'm happy to report that as of right now the br-ister appears to be just fine.  the size of a lime already!  and i appear to be all good as well.  lots of fluids, rest and cranberry juice.  there has been zero cramping and zero spotting for almost an entire week.  i'm going to wait to post any belly shots until i hit 12 weeks.  just to be on the safe side.  my midwife is confident that baby is here to stay, and so are we. 

on a sort of related topic, i've been having the strangest dreams lately.  one of which was about our baby girl.  yup, i had a baby girl dream.  maybe that's a sign?  maybe that's just wishful thinking?  honestly i'm just excited that we're adding to our family.  girl or boy.

it looks like the numbers have been reset.  can we get a vote?