Pregnancy Sickness & Pregnancy Joys

Well... right after we found out we went to Holden for General Conference, soccer games, and just to see family. Sunday as you know was April fools...background first- for Christmas I made J.D.'s parents a craft that shows children, grand children, and on-the-way scoreboard type thing is the best way to explain it. The on-the-way score has been 0 since Chase which was way back in September when he was born. Also, us Stevens' have been AMAZING at having a grandchild born every year for 5 years.

Back to April Fools- J.D. and I knew we could have changed the board, but we wanted to wait til my graduation May 4th- that way we would be further along. So we changed the board and put a little sticky note that said, "Congratulations Loni and Daniel." It was hilarious- no one noticed almost the entire day! When it did get noticed, a lot of us had some questioning looks and didn't know if it was true or not- of course we played along like we didn't know either. Finally someone asked Loni and it turned out to be pretty funny- secretly we wished it were true and they were hiding something as well, but it wasn't. :-( However it was really funny and a good April Fools joke.

The next day is when it all hit- yep, I was super sick! I just kept praying that it wasn't going to get as bad as with Dawson. I tried everything! I'd try eating to see if it wouldn't make me sick- but everything was coming up. J.D. gave me a blessing and it really got me through the night. Dawson was able to see the blessing as well and well... that's another story.

The next morning we headed to the doctor's office to get the pregnancy confirmed and let them know I was sick. The doctor immediately prescribed some anti-nausea pills. We tried them all- and no bueno. It was unsuccessful- things just got worse. I couldn't keep anything down and was just starving- so Monday we called the doctor again and immediately we had to go into the Infusion Clinic to get hydrated and the zofran injection. That night they inserted a Picc line... :-( I was grateful, but since then we've had to go into the IV clinic 2 times every day. One of the visits is about 2 1/2 hours long for the hydration bags to run. It's been pretty hard.

The zofran we are now going to start getting every 4 hours because in between treatments last week I would end up throwing everything up after the zofran wore off- even with the supplemental zofran pill. AND hopefully home therapy starts Monday so we can not have to strain our schedules so much. I am not doing too good right now, but we are in high hopes it's getting better. I look at so many people who look pregnant and just dream about the day this baby comes.

Ending on more pregnancy joys- One thing that doesn't make the IV clinic so bad to sit through is that J.D. and Dawson will come visit me. Today Dawson gets to come by himself for a little bit because J.D. can't get off work in time. Dawson gets so excited to come see me and it makes me feel so good!

And- J.D. has been the most amazing husband picking up my slack. I can't hardly stand for very long without getting sick, so cleaning and cooking are extremely difficult. Loni came to clean my house last week and since then J.D. has been able to handle things. It's been over a week and J.D. continues to clean, cook, play with Dawson, take care of all the finances, go to work, and give me attention. It's amazing! I can't hardly clean, cook, and go to school- somehow he is doing ALL of it and has been so happy. He is one of a kind and I'm am beyond lucky to have him be all mine. :-)