#3

Yep, I am pregnant. :)
Baby Payne #3 will be arriving sometime in early April, making me 14 weeks along (the ultrasound pic is from around 9 weeks).
My due date as of right now is April 8th.


I have been sick with this pregnancy but I was expecting to be. I as hoping that the wonderful pill Zofran would make that horrible morning (all day) sickness go away like it did when I was pregnant with Callen but no luck this time. It did nothing so I stopped taking it. So we have been suffering with me laying around most of the day. It was all day everyday but it has slowly dropped to every afternoon from about 2-6 and then from about 9 until whenever I get to bed.

It seems like my body is just a bit too familiar with being pregnant, since it was only 13 months ago since the last child inhabited it. I think I started showing at about 8 weeks and I just keep getting bigger. I don't think I was this big with either of my kids until about 5 months! It's like my body is like "oh yeah, we know what to do here, BAM!" I have heard you get bigger with each pregnancy because your uterus is already stretched out and I guess that is definitely true in my case.

I have been so tired too!! For awhile I had to take a nap everyday when the kids went down but now I try not to because when I nap I get even sicker when I wake up (same thing happened when I was prego with Lou, maybe another girl?).

Olivia is set on this being a girl because she wants a sister to play with, not another little brother. Here are some other funny things she has said/done regarding this pregnancy:

"Mommy, I have three babies in my belly... how many do you have?"

After asking her what her 3 babies were named: "2 Thomas O'Malleys and Carson... they're all girls."

After Casey poked her in the belly with a fork: "Daddy, careful!! There's a baby in there and you don't want to hurt 'em!"

"Oh, this baby sure makes me ornery sometimes!!"

Lou: "My babies came out of my belly Mom."
Me: "Oh they did? Did it hurt?"
Lou: "No, it didn't hurt, you'll be fine. There are baby horses in my belly now."

"Oh, Mommy, your belly is getting so big!!"

As you can see, she is pretty funny. I think she is a bit more excited this time because she knows what the outcome of a baby in my belly means. Tomorrow I go back to the doctor and hopefully we get to hear the heartbeat.

26 weeks to go!!!