ANOTHER BABY!! We're so excited to add another cute babe to our family :) These were the pictures we used to announce our pregnancy to the world, though they were taken in the second trimester.
Our baby's current due date is April 13th, 2022. This will be the first time I'll be pregnant through the winter time! I absolutely refused to have another baby in November or anywhere near there haha. Here is the picture we used earlier in the pregnancy to announce it to our families and siblings :)
As with our girls, Dustan and I found out I was pregnant very early one, when I was only about 4 ish weeks pregnant. It was the morning before I flew off to visit my family with the girls, and I actually kept it a secret from them too. I prefer to wait to tell family until 8+ weeks, and it was fun to have it between just Dustan and I for a little bit :)
I felt pretty good for most of our trip, until the last few days. The very first symptom I had was that I become short of breath, almost immediately after finding out I was pregnant. It would be hard to even sing a song to my girls because I would run out of breath. I had previously been doing intermittent fasting and didn't normally eat until 1 pm or later each day. But my last couple days there (around 5-6 weeks), I had to eat a little breakfast to fight off slight nausea. On one of my last days on the trip, I threw up on a hike (though I think this was also because of smokey weather and high elevation, not just because of pregnancy). I was also exhausted. I would fall asleep while playing with the girls and during shows/movies, which are both abnormal for me. It didn't help that I was staying up later to hang out with my family.
About a week after getting home, around 6 to 7 weeks pregnant, I started feeling a little more nauseous every day. I started throwing up a couples times a week, though it was never as bad as it was with my other girls. I was also able to eat slightly more normally than I usually was able to in the past. I knew better this time around to just snack all day, to prevent the sick feeling that came with an empty stomach.
At about 8 weeks, we had an ultrasound and got to hear baby's heartbeat :)
Also at about 8 weeks, I got a terrible runny nose. It was running all day long. I was going through a minimum of 30-50 tissues each day, it was so bad. I would wake up in the middle of the night every single night, not being able to breath because it was stuffy, then not being able to sleep for over an hour because it wouldn't stop running. This lasted for nearly a month! It wasn't a cold or any real sickness because I had no other symptoms at all. Finally, after about a month of having a permanently runny nose, carrying a box of tissues everywhere, my nose being bright red and dry, it finally slowed down and was mostly just running overnight and in the morning. Hopefully in the second trimester it will stop! But apparently a runny nose is a pregnancy symptom that I've never had before. I would take it over the intense nausea, but not by much!
The nausea really started to calm down right at the end of the first trimester, which was quicker than normal. What a blessing to not have that so long this time!
Hopefully my second trimester (especially weeks 20-30) are as good as they usually are for me! We can't wait to find out the gender and talk to our girls about baby more! This picture, taken in Moab, was right towards the end of the first trimester. The cooler weather in Utah really made me feel better than normal, so I was able to do a lot of hiking! The baby belly definitely popped out a lot faster and bigger this time around!
