Big News!

Exciting news around here!

Pregnant! Another baby of our own! I am sicker than anything I remember - and I was super sick with Alaska. I wake up at night with nausea and can't get back to sleep. I was throwing up everything that I ate for a little while there. For the past two days I have been able to make it until 3! Wahoo for small steps. This is the worst part of it all. Steven thought I would be all worried about giving birth and that's the part that I would dread the most. But no, the part that I dread the most is the throwing up. I have decided this is the last time. And I am about 75% serious. I hate being sick. And if we keep doing this fostering thing, I am sure we will find someone to make our family complete at 4 kids. And if we don't, that's not so bad, either. Lots of people have three kids.

I haven't made an appointment yet. Doctor appointments are what I am the worst at. I am kind of thinking I want to do the midwife thing this time around. But actually, I want to deliver at Immanuel Hospital because it is the closest and most easy to get to hospital in Oregon to us and I will do whatever I have to do to make that possible.

All of C's appointments for her bladder/kidney stuff were at Immanuel and I have really gotten to know that place. After C had her surgery, I also got to know the food pretty well. And they have THE BEST croissant breakfast sandwiches. Amazing. I am sold. But they don't have the sugar cookies like OHSU does. Those people know their cookies. So I am in a quandary because those sugar cookies really pulled my days up while in the hospital. But the croissants! And the close driving and easy directions. I am searching out my options.

C's medical appointments have also been right here in town at the Legacy Clinic. I don't like the doctors as much as I do at the OHSU clinic in Scappoose, but I kind of feel like I just want something super close this time around. Even though Scappoose isn't that far (15 min). And I always got Dairy Queen ice cream on the way home. Which was a big bonus. I'd forgotten about that until just now. Maybe I just need to keep OHSU for the ice-cream trips and the sugar cookies after delivery.