A bit of an introduction for those of you who don't already know me. My name is Jaimee and I am a 40 year old mom of 5. I have four girls 15,12,4,6weeks and one little boy 3 Most of my life revolves around my kids. And since I have become an older mom the adventure never ends.
I just finished up a particularly rough spot in life...being pregnant with baby number five. I was so sick the whole time. It started out with morning sickness then went to a major Urinary Tract Infection and then a bout with a Tummy bug and throug
h it all I had my hips go out and I was in bed almost full time for two months. It really sucked!!! And when I got back on my feet I started dealing with extreme acid reflux and chronic pain and depression - my meds were for some reason no longer working and I was already on a higher than normal dose. It all ended with a serious blood pressure problem. I guess you can say I pretty much felt like crap for a full nine months. This had a huge toll on my whole family. My oldest daughter became a caretaker for the whole family including helping me with my young toddlers. I will forever be grateful to her though. My twelve year old who is a high functioning autistic had to give up therapy because there was no way to get her to her sessions. This set her progress back a lot and she became obsessed/addicted to her computer (provided by the school (Aug - May) and it affected her school work and her relationships with her family and friends. I feel very bad about that but am trying to fix it now. My poor toddlers suffered too. They missed out on having a healthy mommy and had to rely on a teenager and an autistic pre-teen for stuff they should have been able to rely on me for. At least now they will grow up loving and being able to count on their older siblings. As
for my husband, he went through a hard time at work during all of this and he really couldn't count on me to take up the slack or be of much use as a sounding board even. We are powering though it though. It's like during that nine months I was living on a different planet but still aware of what was happening right here. It was the worst time for me, hands down. But in the end I would not trade my new little girl for the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love her very much. My next post will be my latest birth story and then I will start with current posts.
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