I feel like my belly got bigger in this past week. Granted i know, strangers cant really tell I'm pregnant yet, but my stomach feels alot bigger than it looks. When i was pregnant with Vincent, my belly was just part of it, i was totally use to having the big belly and couldn't remember what it was like to not have it. After he was born, even just the next day, i couldn't remember what it was like to actually have that big  belly since it had disappeared just 24 hours before. I tried really hard to remember, but just couldn't. Now in this past week, im starting to remember that old feeling, i love it. Its almost like a long lost friend, one you could hardly remember and that constanly gives you backaches.

I think my prenatal vitamins were making me insane:

Really. Since i stopped taking the generic kind the clinic gave me, and started taking the sample packets my actual doctor gave me I'm feeling so much better. Before i was irritable and depressed, and this past week i feel almost calm again. Ive  researched it and haven't found anything about prenatal vitamins causing irritability or mood swings in women, possibly it was just my hormones calming down, but either way I'm not taking the generic stuff anymore.

Doing my research on Natural birth after a c-section...

...and im way pleased with what Ive been finding out. Pretty much there is no reason i shouldn't be able to have a natural birth, as long as my pregnancy progresses OK. I had a c-section with Vincent because he was in the breached position from day one and couldn't turn around. All the research i have been reading points to a natural birth as being safer for both me and baby verses having another c-section. One study i read said the overall rate of complications in women who attempt vaginal delivery after prior cesarean birth is 1 in 2000. I'mhappy with those results. Makes me smile. Im still doing reasearch, but im pretty sure i will be trying this with no medications, so far its what i really want. All the pros i have read about it out weigh my fear of the pain, so far. Women did it for centeries, women still do it.I personally have only been able to discuss it with one woman who expirenced it. Her story was amasing and lead me to realise i had more birth choices that no one had told me about, i knew they were there, but i just never gave them thought. Ive recently emailed her asking her to further her talks with me about it, i want to know more.

I shall name her Olivia...

Maybe.  Olivia is the name I'm leaning towards if its a girl. I love it, everything about it. There is a lot of time between now and then, so it may change ten times before "she" even gets here. Olivia Rhyen. This is what happened last time, with Vincent, he was named Emily before we were informed "she" was actually a he. I guess i have a trend for choosing girl names before boys names. Maybe it will be a "he" again this time, but until then... Ive got a girl name chosen. For now.

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