Pregnancy #4

Posted by Kat in Boston, Health, John, Julie, Kat, Life, London, Rachel, Work

I’m 16ish weeks with #4. We have decided to call him “Boston” and if he is a she, we have no names yet. My stomach is starting to pop out and as soon as I feel that I look more pregnant than fat, I will post a picture.

On a side note, FireCracker is calling LittleMan: “Boy.” When LittleMan is asleep, FireCracker goes searching the house calling “Boy?” “BOY?!” It is very cute.

SuperGlue is going to Boston for a week without me, accompanied by her Granny. I don’t think it has hit her yet, and it probably won’t until she gets there. I am going to feel like half a person until I fly home to Boston to bring her back here.

HotHubby is pretty much feeling better, but a little sore. I wasn’t sure how much more of the pain-induced grouchyness that I could take. He’s a keeper, but apparently really difficult when under the weather. What hubby isn’t I guess?

He is calling to make the appointment for the snip-snip that will be done before I bring another little soul into the world. It’s either he gets it done by a licensed physician or I get it done after hours at Pet Smart, or drunk on the kitchen table. We are going on a family cruise in a year, I am not going to be pregnant for another cruise. I was 22weeks preggo with FireCracker on our honeymoon, I got so sick at our day at sea and we didn’t have SuperGlue with us. I can’t imagine being pregnant with #5 on a cruise while feeling insanely pukey.

Speaking of the cruise and my weight loss goals, I picked up an elliptical and a treadmill. The treadmill still hasn’t made it into our condo, HotHubby and I carried the elliptical upstairs together and that thing was hea-vy! I am doing a few minutes here and there on the elliptical, I have had to slowly build up my knee muscles as I’ve had two knee surgeries and my left knee area muscles aren’t all that strong. SuperGlue is LOVING the elliptical and has been working out everyday. She rocks!

We got our Staples Business Rewards check over the weekend and max’d out our quarterly rewards, getting the full $100 check. I took the girls and bought them some paints yesterday which we used today after I got back from my meeting and have been working on explaining the color wheel to SuperGlue – obviously FireCracker (newly 2) is too young to do much more than mix the paints. They were stoked and we turned two of HotHubby’s “Good Geek” shirts into painting smocks. I was very happy about not having to fork out money for smocks that are only going to get gross. I will have to take a picture of it tomorrow. I have made a resolution to take more pictures of the kids and have prints made.

Things are going well on the Geek front. The fact HotHubby is feeling better has made the gray cloud over my life go away. It was really hard to do more around the house while be pregnant with #4 at this altitude. Over the weekend I actually sat down for a full hour just to catch my breath and get my blood pressure up (yes, I am aware that it sounds backwards). I have been monitoring it and it fluctuates between 110-90 ish over 60-40 ish. I got the low blood pressure from my Dad and have been watching in every few days. I’d definitely take the low bp from my Dad over the high bp which I luckily did not get from my Mum.

Has anyone heard of metformin/glucophage making ones average blood sugar go up?