Yep.

So, yes, I am pregnant. And the guesses from the last post were right – 15 months between Kolby and Eli, 20 months between Eli and Camden, 13 months between Camden and Isaac, and now 15 months between Isaac and ?????? (actually, it’s closer to 15 ½ months, but I think rounding down is always a better idea than rounding up when it comes to pregnancy). So, baby Bradshaw #5 is due on February 8th. I am 12 ½ weeks along now, and am looking forward to when the morning sickness totally goes away (although it has been better lately than a few weeks ago).

One thing that has been giving me trouble this time around that I haven’t had to deal with before is a really bad gag reflex – actually, that has always bothered me a little bit in past pregnancies, like I couldn’t stand to hold a pencil in my mouth or anything like that, but it has been much worse this time – I can’t swallow pills. I can usually get by if I have to take a little tiny pill, but prenatal vitamins always seem to come in the horse-pill size. Even if I’m not feeling nauseous from morning sickness, if I try to take medicine it will make me gag and throw up. Any suggestions? My midwife gave me a prescription for liquid prenatal vitamins the other day, and I have been to two different pharmacies and got a call yesterday from the second one that they couldn’t find anything like that available anywhere. I know there are also chewable ones, but have heard that they taste really terrible, and I don’t know if I could handle that when I am feeling morning sick. Well, I guess I’ll get past this.

So, we will find out in about 6 weeks if the baby is a boy or girl. Ideally I would have liked to wait until we knew the baby’s gender before announcing to everyone that we were pregnant, but after you’ve had 4 kids things start to become obvious a little earlier, and I thought people would be able to tell I was pregnant before then. So, just so everyone knows, we are excited to be pregnant, and we would be happy with either a boy or a girl, really. I know that lost of people I talk to think I am secretly wishing for a girl for the last one, but I think 5 boys would be great. I think this one will be a boy (although I’ve been wrong on that every time with the last 4 kids, so who knows). So, we’ll keep everyone updated when we find out if this one is a boy or girl, and we’ll let you know then what name we’ve decided on.