I'm Nicki, I am a 22 year old stay at home mom. I am married to Adam.We have been together for 5 years, married for 3. We have been blessed with 2 beautiful children, Alexia,3 yrs old, she is a handful but there's never a day that she doesn't put a smile on my face. Then there's Corbin,7 mnths old, who never quits smiling. He is a total mommy's boy. We are expecting our 3rd child, due Feb. 15, 09. Corbin and this baby will be 13 months apart, and I think I have my hands full now..lol. I can handle it, I know I can.

I feel like everything happens for a reason and that God doesn't throw to much at you if he knows you can't handle it. It will be hard but there's always a lesson to be learned from everything.=) I am adopted along with 5 other siblings. 2 brothers and 3 sisters, 2 of which are blood-related. My other brother and sisters are no different to me than my REAL brother and sister. I love them like they are blood as well as my adoptive parents, they are MY PARENTS. Adam, comes from a smaller family having only one brother. We bought a house last year and it is big enough for our little growing family. I'd say we are doing pretty good.=) I love staying home with my babies, even though sometimes I feel like I could pull my hair out, I wouldn't trade it for the world. The best feeling in the world is being able to watch your children grow and learn new things.=)

FIRST TRIMESTER
1-4 Weeks = 1 Month {Finished}
5-8 Weeks = 2 Months {Finished}
9-13 Weeks = 3 Months {Finished}
SECOND TRIMESTER
14-17 Weeks = 4 Months {In Progress=)}
18-22 Weeks = 5 months
23-27 Weeks = 6 Months
THIRD TRIMESTER
28-31 Weeks = 7 Months
32-35 Weeks = 8 Months
36-40 Weeks = 9 Months

PREGNANCY JOURNAL

June 10,2008- Was suppose to start my AF today and didn't. I have been getting serious headaches and heartburn like crazy, and serious back pain! So I knew something was up!

June 12,08- Finally got the nerve to take pregnancy test. Adam was at work so I decided to go ahead even though he wasn't at home. Turned out positive, Took 2 more to be sure and sure enough all three positive. Explains alot! Adam is really shocked cause we just had our son 5 months ago. They will be 13 months apart. WOW!

June 16,08- Morning sickness never fails! It has kicked in today! and the heartburn hasn't given up either!

JUNE 17,08- Called my dr. today and We have our first prenatal dr.'s appt Monday at 11:40AM! I am super excited!

JUNE 17,08- Okay so the dr.'s office just called and wanted to know if I would like to come in this week, So of course I said heck yeah! so we now have an appt for Thursday at 1:40PM.YAY!!! I am more excited now!

June 19,08- Went to dr today and we are scheduled for our first ultrasound July 3rd, So I am super excited

June 20,08- We had to take my 5 month old to see a urologist in Vanderbilt Childrens hospital and he is going to have to have surgery to fix his hernia! The surgery is scheduled for August 1=(

June 28,08- We had my daughters 3rd birthday party today and it was great, although I am sick from being outside all day!

July 1st, 08- I have been sick the last two days with a severe sinus infection..really stinks! I have also had a extremely bad headache as well! I feel BLAH! Morning sickness has kinda eased up the last few days but that could be cause I feel so bad with my allergy problems that I havent been focusing on it!

July 3rd 2008- We went to have our very first ultrasound today! The baby is doing great the heart beat was at 173, so maybe its a girl! LOL. Either way we will be happy=) i understand at this time everything is so high anyways that the actual rate of the heart will not be good now to determine whether it is a girl or boy! However, we found out some not so good news! The found a hemmorhage on one side on my uterus where the placenta has separted itself. I have had slight spotting which I have never had before the dr wants to keep and eye on it to make sure it doesnt completely come apart! They also found some sortof of cyst on my left side of my uterus. A Corpus Luteam Cyst ...the dr. wants to watch that as well! So good and bad news=)=(

July 15,08- So my husband and I decided to take a trip to Gatlinburg,TN this past weekend hoping to relax, well my in-laws went and let's just say I would've rather stayed home! Anyways, I guess from all the walking around it has caused me to spot more. I tried to take it easy like my dr. said but with a 3 year old and a 6 month old, its a little bit harder to do that. My husband thinks that I can run run run and when I am more active is when the spotting occurs. I have placed a call with my dr. hoping that nothing has gotten worse. I am really worried at this point because like I said this has never happened before so its all new.

August 1st,08- We went back for our dr's visit yesterday, we got to listen to the heartbeat, and had regular rountine pap smear, and the dr. said everything looks great..we go back in 4 weeks, however, my son had surgery today so needless to say I am very stressed and about to go crazy seeing him in pain. It was a hydrocele/hernia repair surgery and deflux surgery. Poor baby!

August 27,2008- We went to dr today and everything was okay I guess, I had noticed that I had been leaking some clear fluid for about 2-3 weeks now, so the dr. did a bacteria test and came back fine, he said he didnt see that there was anywhere was leaking or whatever, he seems to think that my bladder is just really weak from getting pregnant so soon after my son, my body didnt have time to recooperate..lol. Anyways I have been having this spells of being dizzy, my heart feeling like it is going to explode, feeling like I am going to pass out, hot flashes and get to where I start shaking really bad, so my dr. is wanting to sending me to a cardiologist to make sure its not just part of pregnancy. He said he has seen it sometimes in pregnancy but with the way I had explained what was happening to my heart, he thinks my blood pressure maybe going down, he wants me to be on a 24 hour heart moniter to see if there is anything irregular there. We got to hear our beautiful baby's heart beat and it was strong. We go back September 25 to find out what we are having...yay.. I am so excited. Well, thats it for today..

Mommy's Growing Belly