9 Months Pregnant & Counting..! (Entry #1)

My Pregnancy Journal:
Entry #1
I'm so incredibly happy to be pregnant again! Jim & Kyle are besides themselves with excitement over this pregnancy. As for Bella..well..let's face it...she's only 17 months old. She will turn 2 on July 31 which is right around when the baby is due. I'm sure she will be besides herself with jealousy. I'm a little anxious & worried about that but as with everything, we'll cross that bridge when we get to it. With a newborn comes so many new changes - it's really an adjustment period for everyone.
I have my first Doctor's appt on January 17th at 8am. I should be getting my first ultrasound on that day too. While I'm looking forward to this big appointment, I'm nervous - I'm looking for reassurance that everything is progressing normally. The ultrasound will hopefully bring me that reassurance.
Overall I've been experiencing the usual early pregnancy symptoms: Extreme exhaustion & fatigue accompained by on again/off again nausea. I am happy that so far the nausea hasn't been terribly bad. Sometimes it lingers for a long time, other times it comes & goes in short waves, but never is it bad enough to make me actually "get" sick. With Bella I was vomitting on a fairly regular basis from the moment I took the pregnancy test!!
My hormones are completely out of whack. There are times in which I feel so happy I could cry & times in which I feel so sad I could cry. It's like being on an unsteady,emotional rollercoaster ride. Most of the time I feel overwhelmed by life in general - nothing in specific. I'm not allowed to take a break or slow down - so no matter what I have to keep moving forward & sometimes that can be hard to do when all I feel like doing is sleeping! But in a few weeks I will enter the 2nd Trimester & should find some relief in that department. Not only should the cloud of nausea disappear but also I will probably feel more energetic & less moody.
We've decided to move Bella upstairs in the Spring. Jim is going to build a custom gate to seperate the playroom so half of it will be her bedroom. He already installed the heating upstairs, so now he just needs to finish the molding & then replace the 2 windows. We're going to keep the walls white. I will buy some sticker decals to decorate her room with. We're going to buy her a bed, similar to Kyle's. So, lots of changes for miss Bella will be coming in the Spring - a new room, a new bed... fun times ahead!!
Jim & I have already decided on baby names, surprisingly early this time around!!! I'm still in shock that we both agreed on the names so early on. That's certainly never happened for us before!! We love having the names pick out already though - it's one less thing to give thought to down the line, afterall.
So, if we have a boy his name will be Sebastian James. We've always liked Sebastian (and had Isabella been a boy, that would've been the name we chose) & we like how it sounds with James, even though Kyle's middle name is James too.
And if we have a girl her name will be Savannah Elaine. Neither one of us had ever given thought to the name Savannah before - but then 3 back-t0-back coincidences(?) took place & so we decided to take it as a sign that Savannah would be our next girl name. First, I watched a movie & the main actresses name was Savannah. At the time I thought to myself "that's a pretty name". Then a few days later, while looking for an outfit for Bella at a store, I looked at the tag on the outfit & it was made by "Savannah". A few days after that I had a dream that we were having a girl & named her Savannah. Weird!! I decided I really loved the name, and Jim was in agreement. Her middle name, Elaine, is also my mother's middle name (Barbara Elaine).
So, that eliminates any questions regarding what we're gonna name this baby! I'm sure some people will love the names & some will not like them at all. Everyone always has their opinions, afterall! Fortunately, Jim & I aren't bothered when someone says "I don't like that name..." or "Why would you pick THAT name..?" To each his own, right?! :)