[Goingfor3]

I guess this is where we are supposed to document our journey, highs,lows.etc.

I'm Amanda. DH and I are TTC #3. I have never taken birth control, and as far as I know everything 'works' fine. We have talked off and on for about two years about having another. My husband was happy with just the two. He has a very stressful job, and his nerves are just shot,lol so the thought of starting over when life is so easy with our kids (4 and almost 7)was a big decision for him. But then my sister had a baby September of 2008. Spending time with him, just really brought up the fact that I did want another. We started talking after New Year's this year about when we would start trying. I have this weird thing about birthdays. I feel bad if two siblings have b-days close together, I feel like it's not their own special day. So we tried to time it so that a possible third would be atleast two months away from one of our two kids (March and September babies) After our son was born we just decided to not use any form of bc other than condoms (yuck) and then eventually we just switched to (tmi,sorry) the pull out method.

So my husband was more than happy to start bd again lol.

We decided to go for it February 6th. AF came Feb 14th, and left around the 19th. We never really charted before, we would just bd. It took two months for our daughter, and only one time with one cycle for our son. But I wanted to ensure we were bd on the right dates, so I found pregnology.com and started charting the best days which is very new for me. It took a while to figure out what all the phases were, and the dates "most fertile" but within a few days we got the jist of it. But just to be safe, starting on the 20th we just bd'ed every single day except for March 2nd (should have o'ed Feb 27th) so I'm feeling pretty confident that there is a good chance.

As of today 3-07-09 I havent been feeling any symptoms yet, just lots of things I think I'm making up in my head. Like yesterday morning I felt sick to my stomach. But then I just told myself I was hungry,and it was nothing. Then yesterday afternoon I could feel myself getting very annoyed at my husband over little things,which made me think it was PMS but then I just told myself maybe it was my hormones changing. So I flip-flop around, maybe because I dont want to get overly excited and then be let down when/if af shows up.

I'm very excited at the thought of being pregnant again. My other two pregnanies were very easy, and really uneventful (except for my pg with daughter-vanishing twin early on, no complications though) I really enjoy being pregnant, and I really miss hearing their little heartbeats. I went into labor on my own with both, and delivered them both vag. birth. I'am however a little worried about the fact that they say each delivery is shorter than the last,generally speaking. My labor and delivery was just short of 7 hours with my daughter-first birth,first pregnancy. Then our son was well much quicker. I went in for my 39 weeks apt and they checked my cervix. I was at 4, but no contractions. They told me to come back in the morning to be induced at 7am,woohoo! So I went home that night, walking around at 4 centimeters. The next morning I was getting ready to leave to go be induced when I started having terrible contractions. We callled to check if a room was available, they said yes but if someone came in, IN labor I would have to wait. I told them, to hold the room...I'm in labor! lol This was about 6:40am. We got there right at 7am, checked in and I was at 8. I gave birth to my son in the shirt I came in wearing, they barely got an iv in before I pushed twice, and there was baby. Not even any time for meds.

So, if each birth goes faster I'm a little worried I might just need to live at the hospital the last week of my pregnancy,lol I dont want to be one of those people on the news where their husband delivers the baby in the car!

Ok,anyway back to ttc journey...

We havent told anyone we are ttc because they are nosey and all have an opinion about it. They would say we're nuts, or all give ideas on positions (like anyone wants your mother to tell you that,lol). My mother in law would say it's selfish and woould depreive our two kids of attention. or affection. We wont go into her, but let's just say I'm shocked my husband lived to be a teenager. The lack of care, supervision, and love in that house was shocking. Anyway.........



So that's my story so far.