Miller Time: More BIG News!

As our faithful Miller Time blog readers know, we recently moved into our first house! But that's not all that's been going on with the Millers this summer. We are excited to finally announce that we are expecting Baby Miller #2 in March!!! Due date is March 5, but if this baby is anything like Ellison I won't get my hopes up that he or she will be here by then!

We found out about the pregnancy at the end of June, when I was just over 4 weeks pregnant. It has not been an easy first trimester for me, which really complicated packing and getting ready for the move (now it all makes sense, right?!). Besides going to work, I was mostly in bed between weeks 5-9. I even had to call in sick once, which I didn't do while I was pregnant with Ellison until I was past 39 weeks! The main issue has been severe headaches, but nausea, exhaustion, and other normal pregnancy symptoms have been mixed in as well. I never had headaches while pregnant with Ells, so they came as a total shock and really knocked me down. I am allergic to all the "stronger" pregnancy-friendly pain medications that were suggested by the doctor (severe codeine allergy, I won't take anything related to it) so I've had to get by on just Tylenol. Luckily over the past few weeks I have started to have less headaches, and when they do come they are not as severe. Still extremely tired and struggling to eat much at this point, though (actually lost 10 pounds from week 4 to week 12). Hoping for smoother sailing in the months ahead!

I have to say that Jay has been amazing throughout the first couple months of this pregnancy. Not that he isn't always amazing, but he has had to do everything he normally does and everything I do as well. He's been cooking, cleaning, basically being a single dad to Ellison, plus working full-time, managing our finances, and pretty much buying, packing, and moving into the new house without my help. I was barely able to pack anything until the couple days right before the move. I couldn't help paint the new house (luckily we had family members who could), and I couldn't help move anything heavy (again, we are blessed with an amazing family!). Jay is the best husband and daddy in the world!

We can't wait to find out whether Baby #2 is a boy or girl so we can start getting his or her room ready. Up until this point we have just left the 3rd bedroom as it was when we bought the house. And we haven't really bought anything for the new baby yet...so different from the first time around! We definitely plan to do a gender reveal party like we did for Ellison. She is too little to know what's going on, but she will turn 2 right before baby comes so hopefully it will make more sense by then! She does love her dolls so hopefully that will translate to her brother or sister :)

We had Ellison wear a "Big Sister" shirt on moving day to announce the pregnancy to the family members who were helping that didn't already know. Only my dad was really surprised, I guess everyone else already had their suspicions! The shirt was also the way Ells and I told Jay about her new sibling. We went out and bought it the day I took the pregnancy test while he was at work. We are so sneaky!

Ellison on moving day

The day we found out about baby #2!

Mommy with big sister E

Daddy and E

We had our first ultrasound just before 10 weeks. The tech was Australian and called the baby a "bub" in her fun accent. Loved hearing the heartbeat and seeing that all was well with our little gummy bear! We could see him or her moving their little arms and legs, which neither of us remembered seeing at our first ultrasound of Ellison. Due date based on ultrasound was 3 days earlier than what we thought, so matching up well. We're sticking with the original due date rather than the 3 days earlier date because again, don't want to get our hopes up about an earlier arrival!

12 week appointment (first with the doctor) went well, very quick and simple. Blood pressure is good, weight loss is ok at this point. No issues, nothing major to discuss. Stay out of the heat, stay hydrated. I forgot that for the most part, nothing really happens at these early appointments! But we did get to hear baby's nice, strong heartbeat :)

12 Weeks...8/21/13

Very excited to share more details about the pregnancy on the blog as we go along. We have been taking our weekly block pictures and also chalkboard photos this time. I have to say the second pregnancy is going SO much faster than the first so far. Even though I haven't been feeling well, the first trimester has flown by! I guess moving/settling in at a new house and having a toddler to chase leaves minimal time to think about the pregnancy. It's barely sunk in that we will have a newborn living with us in just over 6 months!

Here's the weekly chalkboard pics...