14 weeks

2ND Trimester

So far I have felt pretty good.  More tired than normal and some food aversions (especially to coffee) but overall good.  So far this pregnancy has been very much like the other three.  Again I will be battling gestational thrombocytopenia, which has proven to be no big deal with my other pregnancies, just a lot more lab work and no chance of an epidural for delivery.  So far, my glucose levels have been good.  I will continue monitoring my sugar at home and controlling it with dietary changes.  I have gotten big quickly.  I already look like quite pregnant and have been wearing maternity clothes (thanks to family and friends who've loaned me theirs since I had gotten rid of all of mine).
At fifteen weeks we could hear the baby's heartbeat on the doppler for the first time.  It was 140 bpm.  Based on the heart rates of the other kids, I would guess that this is probably a boy.  We are not planning on finding out the gender of this baby, so we won't know for sure until April.

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