a pregnancy post

Just stopping in to give some info about my pregnancy.
- I am now 20 weeks pregnant. I am due May 18th. Clara was due May 15th, but came 3 weeks early. We'll see how this one goes but I wouldn't mind if I went a few weeks early again.
- I have been sick sicky sick sick. Zofran has not really helped significantly. Things seemed to improve somewhat around 16-17 weeks, meaning I am not nauseous ever so often, but I am still exhausted and generally don't feel good most of the day.
- Some people are thinking it. Some people are even tactless enough to ask it. So I will just put it out there... Yes, this was a planned pregnancy. It happened a lot faster than we thought it would (took us over a year to get pregnant with Clara. We scored on the first try with this one. TMI?) but we are thrilled that our kids will be close in age.
- Although I worked full time throughout my last pregnancy, this one has been much harder. For starters, I started getting sicker than a dog before my pregnancy test even read positive. Also, I have a very busy toddler to take care of, and I am still working 2- 12 hour shifts per week. We also moved a few weeks after I found out I was pregnant. Needless to say, my life is a mess. We have never gotten totally moved in to our new place (3 months later...), my blog is so far behind, my house is a total disaster zone, I don't even shower half the time. I am proud when Clara and I make it to the end of a day alive. So far, we're 100% on that one, so I guess that's something to be happy about. As a control freak, I find all of this very distressing, but I am trying to keep in mind that it is a temporary state of being. I know I will feel like a new person the day this child exits my body. I know having 2 children will have its challenges, and I know that the sleep-deprived newborn stage isn't exactly a walk in the park, but at least I will feel like myself again. Looking forward to that.
-It's a boy! Are you wondering why I didn't put that at the top?  There should be something exciting after the whiney little rant you just tolerated. He was pretty uncooperative in our anatomy ultrasound. In fact, we have to go back in a couple of weeks to have a few things checked out because he wouldn't cooperate. But he wasn't at all shy about letting us know that he is a he.
-Yes, we have some name ideas. Nope, we won't share them with you. Sorry. We don't want your reaction/opinion to ruin the name options before he's even here. Ha ha.
- Yes, I am already huge. No, it's not twins. No, you can't rub my stomach.
- I am planning on returning to work after I have the baby.
- Due to the difficulties I have encountered during this pregnancy, I believe this is the last one we're having. I hate being pregnant. I would maybe consider having more kids if I could skip the whole pregnancy thing, but 2 kids doesn't seem so bad to me.
So there you have it folks.