HCG Take 3!

So after announcing the pregnancy to Craig, I headed to the lab for yet another HCG level.  my doc wanted to confirm it was over 2500 before scheduling an early ultrasound.  This baby is obviously an overachiever because it turned out to be 5069!!

We now have an ultrasound scheduled for Wednesday the 14th.  I'm so excited to see the baby!  (Though I know s/he will be less than half an inch long so there's not much to see.  Hopefully, we'll at least hear a heartbeat!)

On the pregnancy symptom side of things, my sense of smell is ridiculously acute.  Coffee and chicken soup smell disgusting, I'm sorry to report.  And I had a pretty bad case of nausea yesterday.  Sleep is still elusive for all 3 of us, but hopefully Daylight Savings will help with that.  I hate the time change because it means getting up in the dark again, but hopefully spring will show up sometime soon!

The other thing that has been a pain, literally, is the restless leg syndrome.  I believe I had this when I was pregnant with Gabe too.  It makes sleeping even more difficult, unfortunately.

Gabriel is still pretty unaware that he's getting a sibling.  We did broach the subject of needing to give his crib to the baby to use (now that we converted it into a toddler bed, haha!).  He seems ok with that and getting a full-size bed of his own.  He still asks for a "real crying baby" occasionally.  We'll see if he really likes that when baby arrives!!