Ugh.. this is awful.
The term "morning" sickness is false advertisement. I have been sick from the moment I wake up, all throughout the day, before I go to bed, and throughout the night.
In fact, I think I jinxed myself.
Here I was complaining to the hubby about how little my pregnancy symptoms were. In fact, they were so little, I was worried I might not even be pregnant. I was joking about how embarrassing it would be to go to my first prenatal visit, only to be informed, "Uh.. sorry ma'am, but your not having a baby."
Then BAM!
Half way through week six, the nausea started to make itself present. At first, it was just a little morning nausea, with a few bouts here and there throughout the day. I thought maybe my body wasn't happy because I was waking up so early for work. By the time I got into the shower around 5:30 a.m., I already had a piece of peppermint gum in my mouth to try and calm my stomach.
The first couple days of work I managed to get through, but by Thursday the nausea had only gotten worse. By now I was noticing food aversions and all I could really stomach were really bland things.
My Thursday food intake consisted of:
half a toasted bagel
fresh pear
a small bag of goldfish crackers
fresh cucumber and red bell pepper w/ hummus
Even then, getting some of those items down was quite a task!
Since Thursdays are the start of my weekends, I had made plans to go see a movie with my girlfriend. When we got there, to my surprise popcorn and red licorice sounded pretty good. I'm not sure if it was from the pregnancy or because I should have been starving (I'm thinking the latter, considering the above listed foods I had ate all day)..
After the movie and surprisingly feeling okay, I settled into bed. I was very excited to be able to sleep in the next day as my sleep throughout the week had been very limited. Talk about tossing and turning!
Things were going pretty good until about 3:30 a.m.. One second I was soundly asleep in my bed, and the next?
Yup. Hugging the porcelain goddess.
That was my first round of pregnancy vomiting and let me just say, things haven't been the same since.
It is now Saturday and I am spending yet another entire day laying in bed. The nausea is so bad I can hardly get around.
I have managed to eat saltine crackers, a little chicken noodle soup, plain bagels, and ginger ale; none of which has helped with the morning sickness.
Randy finally ran to Babies R' Us to purchase some preggie pops and drops. They seem to settle my stomach a little bit, but really aren't much of a cure. I would hate to get on any prescription nausea medicine; however, if I continue to feel this way, there is no way I will be able to make it through work..
..and well, that just isn't an option.
So here is to the next 5 1/2 weeks.. Hoping and praying that by my second semester all this nausea will be history!
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