WOW!

Firstly let me apologise for not having been around, there has been a whole lot going on and not enough time or energy to keep up with everything. BUT... We had our level II U/S on friday and we're having a BOY this time!! I'm still getting over it, after having 2 girls, I guess I just figured it would be another girl. His name is James Alan, and everything seems normal with the u/s.

It's blown the girl/boy sickness theory right out of the window. It's often been said that Hyperemesis is worse with a girl than a boy, but now I know otherwise. Having only had girls, I couldn't comment other than to repeat others experiences, but now I know that it's not gender based. This 'blue' pregnancy is not as bad as pink PG#1 but way worse than pink PG#2.

The thing I don't get about this illness is how it can change so much. Good days, (only throwing up 3-4 times) bad days, (throwing up constantly as soon as something touches your lips) heartburn nausea, and my latest one "sickly sweet" nausea.. It's weird and hard to explain, but even when I breath in and out if feels really sweet in my stomach, like I've eaten too many sweets, or been on a rollercoaster all day or something. Not pretty.

JJ took her first steps at 10.5 months but I missed it...again. I missed Kimi's first steps because I was PG with JJ and sick and this time I was at a midwife appointment when she did it for her daddy. She's also starting to say proper words now. She can say "Hi", "Chief" (said Teef but she only does it when our dog is around) "Go" and her favorite of the week "car" she will see a car on tv, or one of Kimi's toy ones and that's it, all you hear for an hour is "Cah"

And Kimi? Well... She has her own 'princess bed' now and is sleeping a bit better although she mostly still wakes once in the night, occasionally twice. She's hit the terrible two's head on and I really don't have the strength to deal with it, but know I have to, so that's not helping the HG much either. She's going through the "flop" stage, if you try to take her hand she drops to her knees, if I bend over to cuddle her she grabs my hair and flops, if you want her to do anything she doesn't want to do she flops...AAAARRRRRGGGHHHH!! Aside from that though she's doing really well, and even helped to choose her baby brothers name.

My better half has gone back to work after a 3 week holiday, and boy do I feel it, not having him around makes life so much harder right now, I can't nap whenever I need to like I could before, and the dishwasher doesn't automatically load itself before I've even got out of bed... But still he won't let me do anything around the house, except look after the girls.

Started already

I was kinda hoping that life would be kind to me on at least ONE of my pregnancies, but now I'm guessing NOT.

14 weeks in and I get my first "hotel stay" for IV's. The hyperemesis has hit me with a vengence, maybe it's my fault for thinking that it wouldn't be as bad this time.. yeah 7 litres of fluid and cyclizine injections every 8 hours in my thigh later and the threat of being catheterised if I don't pee was JUST what I wanted. I'm finally out and feeling somewhat human(ish) again. I have a higher dose of meds which seem to be helping so far, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I don't have to go back. I love the hospital, and the staff are wonderful and their knowledge of HG is great, but nobody really wants to be in hospital, even a good one.

Fingers, toes, legs and anything else that won't have me racing to the porceline Goddess are being crossed that I don't have to get any more treatment aside from the pills.

May update:

Ok.. Here's the short version, and believe me, the long version is looooong and you really wouldn't want to hear it..lol.

So at the end of April we discovered that we were expecting again, TOTAL SHOCKER!! We were done. Had our 2 kids and were totally happy. This news has totally changed everything. And so the hyperemesis has hit again already (see link to right), and I'm wondering how I will cope with a baby, and a toddler, especially with the SPD (last time I was on crutches it was so bad). I already have meds, but I'm still blah! I am coming round to the idea, but it's a lot to take on board.

However, there is good news too. Kimi drew her first picture!! Such a big girl, sometimes I forget that she's only 2 (well, will be 2 next week)Check this out!

And also Miss JJ got her first tooth, bless her.

Dad's 60th Birthday.

Me and Dad

Emily, Gracie, Kimi & JJ

Dad's birthday went without any hitches, there was quite a good turn out at his party, including somefriends from Holland, and various family from all over the East coast of England. All the children (all girls, under 2yrs) were well behaved (can't say the same for all the ADULTS..lol :P) But it was a good day. Dad has picked up his bus pass, and for some very strange reason, he's awfully proud of the fact he gets cheap bus tickets now, but really don't get it cos he still has a car and never uses the bus! Oh well..lol

Finally...

Yes I've worked it out, and I now have a bit of time in the evenings. I've managed to get JJ to bed by 7.30pm by cutting out one of her naps in the afternoon and giving her a long bath so she kicks and splashes and tires herself out. It's working!!

And Kimi has finally started going to bed by herself. There was a time if you put her in her cot and left the room she would scream the house down. CIO didn't work because she'd get herself so worked up she'd puke. So we were resigned to cuddling her to sleep then putting her in the cot. Well a few days ago I was fed up with it, JJ was screaming for a bottle, DH was working late and I just chucked her (not literally) in her cot, gave her her milk and her teddy and left the room, I went down to JJ, fed her and put her to bed, and when I checked on Kimi she was fast asleep, so I took the bottle away and chilled out til DH got home.

We tried it a few nights to make sure it wasn't a fluke and nope! She will go to sleep herself. We sometimes hear her talking to herself, but in general she nods off almost straightaway, and if not, she talks herself to sleep.

Nights to myself ROCK!!

6 Months going on 10! (contains FOODMENTS for my HG friends)

Ok so "little JJ" has the biggest appetite ever, she's not quite 6 months yet and she already has cereal for breakfast, a dinner and pudding at lunch and a dinner and pudding at tea time!! Her favourites are mummy's home made cottage pie and and hot mashed bananas. But she will happily scoff down anything I put in front of her, and so far she has only had one very mild reaction to a food that we have now taken out of her diet. She has been wearing 9-12M clothes and for the most part she is still in those, but she has also been getting into some 12-18 month stuff too, I have a real feeling that give her another 6 months and they'll be wearing the same size clothes! At last weigh in she was over 18lb so she's probably over 19lb now as that was over 2 weeks ago.

Terrible two's

Kimi heard about the terrible two's and wanted to get in on the action early. She's driving me nuts with the constant whining, and a sound I can only describe as a cross between a grunt and a growl. It's like something you'd see on Harry Enfield's teenage character "Kevin", only in miniature form. She has suddenly decided she NEVER wants her hair up, even though she'd been so good with it up until now, we have lost so many hair bands it's not funny anymore.

What's worse is that I heard from many friends that the terrible two's never really goes away, One has an eight year old who she says (hopefully jokingly) is still going through it. I think it's time to get a padded room for mummy! Either that or a sound proof room for Kimi! And someone help me when JJ gets to that stage and I have two of them!

The strange thing is, that as annoying as she's getting, she is also getting so much sweeter too. A couple of days ago she grabbed my head and kissed my nose then pulled me into a hug. She's started telling her sister "wuffoo" which is Kimi-speak for "love you" which is a new thing. Then yesterday she kissed both my eyes, and then my nose, then my mouth and then hugged me and said "my mummy"

Maybe the cuteness is a counteraction for all the annoyances she has right now, but I sure wish she'd just do the cute thing and leave the grunts and whining behind.