9 weeks

I'm officially nine weeks along and am crossing my fingers that the morning sickness begins to ease up soon. We had a pretty good weekend (i.e. no puking or near-puking encounters) although we did nothing but sit inside with the air conditioning on. I left the house once to go to Whole Foods where I filled my cart with Vitamin water, vitamin B6, Preggie Pop Drops and some other herbal concoction that is supposed to help with pregnancy-related nausea. Thumbs up for the Vitamin water, I am finally getting enough fluids. For some reason plain water and seltzer taste just aweful to me, and I don't want all the sugar that comes with soda and juice so the Vitamin water is a happy compromise. I'm making a conscious effort to each more which does seem to help.

My husband has been hilarious about the possibility of having triplets, coming up with all sorts of scenarios, some more realistic than others. He's excited that he'll be able to organize 2-on-2 soccer games (I'll be sitting on the sidelines drinking lemonade). However, he thinks we should forgo cribs in favor of just lining up the babies on the bed in our spare room. When I suggested that they might wiggle their way off the bed, he said we'd wrap them up like cocoons so they couldn't move. I mentioned wanting to use cloth diapers (we estimated we'd have 27,000 diaper changes by the time they're potty-trained) and he was adamant that "single use" diapers are the greatest invention since babies themselves. When I expressed my worry about the logistics of taking three kids somewhere, he told me he'd design a carrier for three babies with two on the front and one on the back and that he'd be sure to rotate them so they all got equal time in each spot. It's pretty funny, even if he clearly has no real concept of what small babies are like.

I'm not putting a due date ticker on the blog yet. Our likely gestational time is somewhere around 34 weeks which puts us at the end of January/beginning of February. Once we get a bit further along and accumulate more evidence that things are going well I might put one up.