diff --git a/parser/__tests__/parser.test.js b/parser/__tests__/parser.test.js
index 035beed..62dbd1a 100644
--- a/parser/__tests__/parser.test.js
+++ b/parser/__tests__/parser.test.js
@@ -281,6 +281,9 @@ describe("parseParagraph", () => {
         },
       },
     },
+    orderedList: {
+      "list-id": 1,
+    },
   };
 
   const paragraph = {
@@ -338,6 +341,7 @@ describe("parseParagraph", () => {
       paragraphStyle: { namedStyleType: "HEADING_1" },
       bullet: { nestingLevel: 1, listId: "list-id" },
     };
+    documentContext.orderedList["list-id"] = 1;
     const result = parseParagraph(documentContext)(heading);
     expect(result).toEqual("    - # Hello, world!");
   });
@@ -356,6 +360,7 @@ describe("parseParagraph", () => {
       ...paragraph,
       bullet: { nestingLevel: 1, listId: "list-id" },
     };
+    documentContext.orderedList["list-id"] = 1;
     documentContext.lists["list-id"].listProperties.nestingLevels[1].glyphType =
       "DECIMAL";
     const result = parseParagraph(documentContext)(listItem);
diff --git a/parser/parser.js b/parser/parser.js
index 65a05ce..128cde5 100644
--- a/parser/parser.js
+++ b/parser/parser.js
@@ -94,7 +94,14 @@ export const parseDoc = async (doc, answer) => {
     inlineObjects: doc.inlineObjects,
     lists: doc.lists || {},
     suggestions: new Map(), // Accumulators for the count and total text length of all suggestions
+    orderedList: {},
   };
+  let i = Object.keys(documentContext.lists).length;
+
+  while (i--) {
+    documentContext.orderedList[Object.keys(documentContext.lists)[i]] = 1;
+  }
+
   const { paragraphs, relatedAnswerDocIDs, alternativePhrasings, glossary } =
     extractDocParts(doc);
 
@@ -105,9 +112,7 @@ export const parseDoc = async (doc, answer) => {
   }
 
   const body = paragraphs.map(parseParagraph(documentContext)).join("\n\n");
-
   const footnotes = extractFootnotes(documentContext, doc);
-
   const md = body + "\n\n" + footnotes;
 
   // Take the maximum of each suggestion's insertions and deletions
@@ -241,6 +246,7 @@ export const parseParagraph = (documentContext) => (paragraph) => {
     const listID = pb.listId;
     const list = documentContext.lists[listID];
     const currentLevel = list.listProperties.nestingLevels[nestingLevel];
+    const orderedList = documentContext.orderedList[listID];
 
     // This check is ugly as sin, but necessary because GDocs doesn't actually clearly say "this is an [un]ordered list" anywhere
     // I think this is because internally, all lists are ordered and it just only sometimes uses glyphs which represent that
@@ -249,12 +255,9 @@ export const parseParagraph = (documentContext) => (paragraph) => {
       currentLevel.hasOwnProperty("glyphType") &&
       currentLevel.glyphType !== "GLYPH_TYPE_UNSPECIFIED";
 
-    // Please forgive me for always using 1. as the sequence number on list items
-    // It's sorta hard to count them properly so I'm depending on markdown renderers doing the heavy lifting for me.
-    // Which, in fairness, they're supposed to.
-    itemMarker = isOrdered ? "1. " : "- ";
+    itemMarker = isOrdered ? orderedList + ". " || "1. " : "- ";
     leadingSpace = new Array(nestingLevel).fill("    ").join("");
-
+    documentContext.orderedList[listID]++;
     return (
       leadingSpace +
       itemMarker +