pregnancy cravings!!

I find it interesting how my cravings change with each kid.  When I was pregnant with Karla I craved watermelon and carbs!!  Towards the end of my pregnancy we went extreme in an attempt to control my diabetes.  I ate 1 peice of toast a day--and other than that, no carbs.  I wanted carbs towards the end.  But I craved watermelon!
With Kylee, Todd learned to make sweet and sour.  It takes him 3 hours to make, but it is so good.  I craved it.  He made sweet and sour pork, shrimp, beef, anything we could get our hands on.
With Kaylyn...I'm afraid I don't remember.  Sorry Kaylyn.
With Kolten I craved spicy.  I finally learned to make curry.  And I liked it hot.  I ate a ton of dill pickles.  I loved the crispy-ness of them.  I ate a bottle every 3 weeks or so.  I also enjoyed cinnamon disks--which I didn't use to like at all. 
Now with Kaje, I crave chocolate.  I also enjoy lemonade.  I don't actually crave lemonade, but I enjoy it.  This is strange because I've never liked it before.  Ironically, I have a container of lemonade left over from family reunion in 2009.  I don't like it, so we haven't drunk it.  Now that I like it, I can't drink it---it's not sugar free!!  I've always craved icecream--and this pregnancy isn't helping that much. 

I also find it interesting how each baby moves differently.  Karla would stick her foot up and push it on the outside of my ribs.  IT hurt!!  But I saw her little foot.  Kylee would spin and spin and spin.  She is also the baby I throwed up with all through the prgnancy.  Kaylyn and Kolten liked to play soccer with my organs.  This baby seems like he keeps trying to stick limbs down the birthing canal.  It's not time yet--and it hurts!!

As far as morning sickness--I didn't have much with Karla.  Kylee I threw up a minimum of twice a day from Thanksgiving to New Years Day.  Great timing Kylee.  I countinued to throw up through out the pregnancy, but it got better after New Years Day.  Kaylyn I threw up occassionally but not bad.  I didn't throw up at all with Kolten.  And Kaje has followed with Kaylyn--some but not bad.

My boys are the only two who has given me braxton hicks.  I did have one night of contractions with Kylee although by the time we got to the hospital they stopped.  Other than that, I never had a contraction out of the hospital.

I find each pregnancy different.  And it's facinating!!  I hurt a little more as I get older.  I struggle with vericose veins with my boys, and I didn't with my girls.  I wear those very sexy compression socks now!! 

I get diabetic as soon as I get pregnant.  They keep telling me I will stay diabetic with how high my sugars shoot and how soon they start.  But so far, once the baby is born my sugars become normal.  My blood pressure usually shoots through the roof--it did with all my girls.  Although with Kolten, since I lost so much weight, I didn't have blood pressure problems.  Also with Kaje, my blood pressure looks great!!  This one I take as a miracle.  I give God the credit because it shouldn't be holding.  And yet it is.   Having said that, my doctor isn't going to wait for my preclampsia to kick in though--and we are going to have this baby at 37 weeks instead of 40.