Melessa - If I'm up and sick anyway, might as well be on here! I should add, I totally get wanting to be checked, as I was pretty disappointed when my dr told me he doesn't do the internals. Not that anyone wants an internal exam, but you do want to know if there's any hope in sight. I know the dilation doesn't mean anything, but I think it's a mental thing foe pregnant moms. Like I am dying to get to my first ob appt even though I know nothing is going to happen besides the dr basically saying "Ok, you're pregnant, likely with another large baby we'll have to keep an eye on and hope you don't deliver preterm again." It just sorta marks a milestone in the long journey, and I think internals have the same effect.
IHeartTink - I had the BabyWise book, my MIL bought it for me with my 1st kid, which was odd as I don't think she believes in any of Ezzo's principles, but then again, she probably never read the book, just saw "baby" on the cover and bought it. I did read it, but there was no way to implement any of the strategies with my 1st as she was a very high maintenence baby. The one thing I did use from the book was that I'd try to keep her up about 30 minutes after a feeding before putting her in her bed, and that did seem to work as far as helping her sleep longer than if she went to sleep immediately after eating.
If I had tried to feed her on a schedule we both would have been crying. Actually, I did try, and we were both crying. She definitely needed to eat, and consequently sleep, on her own timeline, and my attempts to regulate that were not well met.
I'd say to read the book and just plan to apply the techniques loosely based on your baby, not so much trying to adapt your kid to the book if that makes sense. I know a couple of people who followed the book religiously and their babies did sleep all night from really early on, but I think that might have been the case either way. I did nothing differently with my son than I did with my daughter and he was sleeping from 6am-6pm by 7 weeks old and my daughter didn't do that till she was 2.5yo!
Thanks everyone for the vitamin tips. I take Citranatal or something like that and have since my 1st kid, but they have this nasty vanilla scent. Thing is, when I'm not pregnant they smell really good, but as soon as that baby is conceived the smell is nauseating. And now they come with a DHA capsule so I have 2 things to take which doesn't make it much easier. And of course, I get progressively sicker as the day goes on, so by the time I'm ready for bed, I'm also sick and not in the mood for the vitamins, but I force myself to take them most nights, then end up throwing up before bed, so I am sure I don't get much out of the vitamins. I did take a sour gummy flinstone vitamin a few times, and those didn't make me sick, but I did notice they have vitamin A in them and my prenatals don't. I know that can act as a teratogen so I'm thinking I should avoid them. I think I'll try taking them immediately before I fall asleep tonight and see how I do.
BTW, those of you who were sick longer than I was with my others (which was 18 weeks) are freaking me out. We are going on a
Disney cruise with friends on August 29th and I'll be 17 weeks, I think, and was so hoping I'd be at the very end of the morning sickness by then. But the sickness started earlier this time and I keep meeting people who were sick past 20 weeks and I am not feeling so great about this trip. I wouldn't even care that much if it were just our family, but I will feel badly if I end up ruining the other family's trip too.
I need to pack our stuff for Sesame Place. I'm not really looking forward to this trip, and my daughter does not want to leave camp early cause there's a magic show this afternoon so we'll get to hit traffic on the way which will not be enjoyable for me. And then watching my family do water slides while I bake in the sun is also not very appealing at the moment.
Can't wait to see some pictures of your little one!
Congratulations and welcome! 
