#5 Story

I've had a couple people ask me about how we found our we were pregnant with #5. Well, the funny thing is, this came very unexpectedly. We had been trying for about 6 months, and nothing. I didn't get pregnant when I normally did. So I decided to start losing weight before I did get pregnant. So in January, I started excerisizing like crazy and eating right. But for some strange reason, I had gained weight that month. In the meantime, Jason figured that we weren't going to have anymore children. I told him that I was cramping a lot and I thought the endometriosis was coming back. All of the signs were there. Being tired, the cramping like crazy, the moodiness, the gaining of weight. I went through that with the endo when I had it before. So I thought for sure I had it again. On Jan. 23rd, 2 friends and myself threw a surprise birthday party for my sister in law Christina. It was a dance party, 80's theme. I was at my mom's trying to find some 80's clothes and couldn't fit into anything. My stomach had just plopped out and so I weighed myself and was 10 pounds heavier than 3 weeks before. I was so frustrated! I put on my girdle and just wore regular clothes to the party. While I was dancing though, I was cramping a lot and it was hurting. And the girdle was killing me! I was like, what the heck is going on? I was scared and came home and made an appointment with my GYN. It was going to take a week to get into him so I just kept living life. Then one morning, I was getting the kids ready for school and thought, I better make sure I'm not pregnant before I go talk to my Dr. So I went to Walgreens and got 2 tests and came home and took one. Before I take pregnancy tests, I always say a prayer. But I didn't with this one. I just took it, thinking nothing of it. And then, I saw it was a very faint and light positive! I thought for sure that it was wrong, so I took another one. It was a light positive! I started shaking like crazy and crying.... crying for joy. I dropped to my knees and just thanked Heavenly Father for allowing me to bring another child into this world. It was a very humbling experience. I wanted to wait to tell Jason, because I wanted to be creative, but I couldn't wait! I was soooo shocked and just had to share it with him. So this is what I did.... I e-mailed my Korean friend and asked him how to write in Korean, I am pregnant! He wrote back and so I wrote it on our whiteboard in red....

Jason walked through the door at 4pm from work. I was doing the dishes and asked him how his day was. He told me all about it and I just kept quiet about being pregnant. I wanted him to read it himself. He told me about his day and then went to throw something away. The whiteboard is above the garbages and he read what I wrote, and then responded with the black pen. I think the response was no way. He just stood there and didn't say a word. And then he kept doing what he was doing. I said, "hey, what does it say on the whiteboard? Did I write it correctly?" Then he went back and corrected it and just stood there looking shocked! I said, "Well, what does it say?" And he said.. "No way. You can't be! I've been getting feelings lately that we weren't going to have anymore." Well, his feelings were wrong. He smiled and gave me a hug and just kept doing his thing. He was totally shocked and didn't know what to say exactly. Like I said, this was totally unexpected for the both of us. I wrote it on the board like that because we didn't want to tell the kids yet. We wanted to wait a little bit. In fact, I didn't want to tell anyone, but Jason did. He was way too excited after the shock wore off. So there you go. There's our story! Even though it's my 5th pregnancy, it was just has exciting finding out as the first one.

As for how I've been feeling lately, I'm doing much better. I definitely have my days, but my being in bed all day has only turned into a 3-4 hour or so period at a time. I'm eating a lot more iron and working hard on my diet. I also make sure I go to bed early and don't over do it during the day. What a huge blessing! I never thought I would be so thankful to just be able to have the strength to do my dishes. The Dr. said that my hormones played a huge part in it as well. Since I've felt better, my skin has dried out majorly! I've never had this problem before either. But it's really bad and I have to apply lotion 3-4 times a day and a special moisterizur to my face the same amount of time. I also am throwing up a lot more and can't handle smells. It's strange cause I haven't thrown up at all with this pregnancy, but start at 18 weeks? My Dr. said that once my skin is back to normal and I stop throwing up, more than likely, something else will go crazy with my body. It seems as though that's how this pregnancy is for me. We both kinda laugh about it. I love Dr. Katsuyama! A lot has been happening in our lives with our living situation. But I don't want to go into that right now. Too much for me to think about! But I'm thankful for the friends that have been there for me to give me advice and support through the craziness of the last few months! We're very blessed!