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My name is Nina, I am 25 years old I live in Alaska with my husband Chris and our three boys, Ian (5 years) twins. Austin and Hayden (3 years). I am 14 weeks pregnant with a little girl whom we are trying to find the perfect name for.. throw me some name ideas!!!!! I am a makeup artist/Esthetician and stay at home momma. I am feeling pretty terrible with this pregnancy but I am trying to eat as good as possible and take care of myself, so let's see how this goes!!!! Good luck to all of you other mommy-to-be's out there!! Much love, Nina


1-1-08
Im 14 weeks today, YAY! I am so exhausted and have been for weeks. I keep waiting for it to get better, but I am calling to make an appointment with my doc today to get some blood work done just to make sure everything is going good with my minerals and vitamins and such. Chris, my husband, is still on the slope but will be here in 3 days!! Im so excited for him to be home. It has been hard taking care of the boys while feeling like this. Luckily, Ian is old enough to help me keep an eye on the twins. They get into anything and he tells me. I lay down as much as possible otherwise, I get lightheaded and start to feel so sick. After 2 hours of being awake in the morning, I am absolutely exhausted and ready to go back to sleep. The boys are being really good tho. I thank them every day for how awesome they are being while mommy is going through a hard time. The twins are so cute, they are only 3 years old so they lift my shirt and try to look at the baby. LOL! I had an ultrasound on the 28th and the doc let Ian push all of the buttons and print off pictures. He felt like such a big boy, I loved it. I will update more later!


01-02-08
14+ weeks
Im feeling a little better this evening but I woke this morning very dizzy, I had the worst headache and I was absolutely exhausted. I couldn't keep my eyes open, I was miserable. It has been 2 days now of not being able to eat anything but popsicles and strawberry lemonade because my stomache just feels raw and anytime I try to eat solid foods it gives me the worst stomache ache. Chris gets home in 2 days and I cant wait!! Im so excited for him to be home. My belly has grown quite a bit since he last saw me so Im wondering how he will respond to that. I know he will be happy, he keeps telling me 'I cant wait until your belly gets big!.' Well, it's gettin' there! It is so weird this time around because I was just waiting for my belly to get so big so fast. After having the twins and me showing at 10weeks I felt like something was wrong because I wasent getting bigger. I hit 14 weeks tho, and BAM! My bump went from a little bump to an allout pregnant belly. Im happy about it tho because I was in that stage where I just looked like I was gaining weight in my midsection and felt that I had to tell people that Im pregnant all the time and it seemed like I was there for a long time. So, now I have people aske when Im due :D I love being pregnant, but this time it is so different and I am so miserable. I dont ever want to do this again. I just feel absolutely ill all the time. On the plus side I got to feel the baby hit and kick while getting my sonogram and I flet her earlier today while laying on my back in my recliner. I love it. I am feeling the baby so much earlier this time that with the twins, even. I felt them at 15 weeks. I have been feeling this little gal since last week and I just love it! Im so excited to have a girl!! Chris called me today and told me he bought her a little pink hat. HE IS SO SWEET!! I want to start getting her first teddy bear and all of my kids have little lambs, so we'll get her one. I want to start buying clothes and her bassinet. Im so excited!! I cant believe I am already in my 4th month. It is going by so fast. I just cant wait to meet her!!! We are still deciding on names. I think we may settle on Madelyn. We wanted to name the twins Jocelyn and Madelyn if they were girls. We'll see :D Well, I have my next appointment on the 14th so I will post more then!!!


1-20-08
Yay! We're moved!! Finally!! But Im so tired, and surrounded by boxes!! AHHHH!!! Help, someone?? So, I had my appointment and it went very well except they think that I am not as far along as they thought. Im measuring smaller than my ultrasound in the beginning of my pregnancy, sooooooo.. whatever! Im just glad that the baby is doing wonderfully! Im seeing my doc I had with the twins and it is awesome. She walked into the room and greated me with a HUGE smile a shreak and a big hig, so sweet! I am gaining so much weight it is rediculous. But I am so extremely tired that it just makes since, I am just laying around all the time and pretty much only get up when I absolutely have to. It is hard to take care of the boys right now because I feel so terrible. I am confused as to whether this is hormonal, something is wrong, or for the first time in my life I am just LAZY! I dont know but I am looking into everything to get this changed. I am starting on a new vitamin that has to much hype and a terrific rep that I have hopes in it helping me. It is called Visalis and we'll see how it goes! I get my 4d ultrasound in 6 weeks so.... yay!! Im so excited to see my little munkin on that screen. I just love watching munkin move around and twist and flex.. it makes me wonder what is going through her mind. I believe that children remember being in the womb and with age they forget so I am trying to have a very calm, peaceful pregnancy. It seems to be working as I am sleeping 70% of the time! Not too long ago my 5 year old said to me 'Mommy, I used to be in your belly and I was swimming and swimming and then I fell.' I was speachless and a tear came to my eye because I just know by him saying that he has some memory of it and that just makes me feel even more amazing about these beautiful little creatures I am blessed to be the mother of. It is so beautiful.. dont ever underestimate the universal knowledge of your children, I know Im learning from them every day. Well, I will post more later, take care!! Much love!
~Nina