It's been a while since the last post. For the past 8 weeks I have been rather pre-occupied with some little thing called morning sickness. You read about it in all the books and online sites but no matter how much you read about it, it's totally different when it hits you. The word nausea never ment much. I though "I can handle a little nasuea no problem"........oh boy. It's just nausea (which has turned me off of food entirely) but it's a total body weakness that just takes over your world to the point it's all you can do to get out of bed.....and when you finally get out of bed you run straight to the bathroom puking the only thing on your stomach.....bile....and it burns like hell. Then you finally manage to get dressed, choked something down (usually toast or oatmeal) and you get to work. The hard part about work is that no one knows, so puking in silence can be quite trickey. Thankfully the practice I am at is still quite slow since we're so new so there is lots of down time. I spend my days wanting to just crawl into a hole and die (not literally) inbetween pukes. Lunches are a whole new ball game. It's now a game of "what to eat that won't make me puke at the sight/smell" of food. I am totally unable to eat, smell, cook red meat. I have tried making spaghetti or tacos a couple of times and just the sight of hamburger meat is an instant puking session - usually in the sink because it hits so fast. I have found that since becoming pregnant that NOTHING absolutly NOTHING tastes like i remember. Everything is a disappointment. I keep searching for the one food that will make me feel better, give me some energey........I don't think that food exists. Even with the anti-nausea medication the doctor gave me, it's amazing how your hormones will still allow for your to puke your guts up. So after 8 weeks of this, I finally broke down and called the doctor desperate for answers.....unfortuanatly I didnt find any or get any. I was told to try "hard candy - Lemon heads" and eat 5 small meals a day. I have been following all the "advise" on eating while your nauseas and pregnant but honestly, none of them work. Yes, you do have to eat every 2-3 hours or the puking will get worse, but nothing makes the feeling go away.
I am now 12 weeks and I hear that I am at the "turning" point for the nausea. It'd better come quickly too - this is tough. Not only am I growing a human, which has totally taken over my body, but my husband and I are in the final weeks of purchasing a house. So now, with the Lord help and strength, I have to pack up our lives and move them 30 miles away. If Emily and Murphey only had apposable thumbs to help. I have a month so hopefully if I do a little each day I am off, I will be able to make some head way before we have to move.
I go back to the doctor Oct 14 - maybe we'll get to hear the heart beat?! I did go to the GoodWill today looking for maternity clothes - found a couple of items. We're headed on a 1 week cruise in december - Ill be 23 weeks. I am going to need some warm weather maternity clothes for that trip not to menchion a bathing suit! Hopefully if I can't find things in stores, I can find them online. We'll see.
Attached is a photo of Baby Wallace.
More next time.
