6 Weeks

Today I'm 6 weeks pregnant.


My friend T and I have been hitting the hills in her neighborhood hard.  She's working to loose her baby weight and I'm working to stay healthy while gaining the baby weight.  Today's walk kicked my butt!  I slept on the couch with Kara for almost 2 hours.  I had planned to unpack from our weekend getaway to San Diego and do a ton of laundry, but none of that happened.

Morning sickness starts around 6 weeks and I am sure feeling it.  Almost like clock work I started to feel really terrible.  Mostly in the afternoon.  Salty things seem to help.

My sister-in-law told me that the second pregnancy is different from the first one.  Especially with a toddler running around.  She said that it's a challenge to find as much down time as before.
For me this time around is already so different.  I'm not working two jobs and going to school.  I also have the time to cook for myself and my family.  I remember being so nauseous and so hungry when I was pregnant with Kara, but too exhausted at the end of the day to cook anything.  Thankfully I employed my mom to cook for me and that saved my life.

This time around I know what to expect and now have different fears.  I've already had dreams that we didn't make it to the hospital in time.  My nightmare is that I will go into labor at home, during that day and Justin is way out in Oxnard.  I'm worried about finding someone to watch Kara and get to the hospital before the baby comes.  The doctor already said that this pregnancy could be similar to my previous one and that I could progress quickly.  But they can't really say for sure.  That worries me.