Thank you so much for all your lovely comments that were left after my last post, it was something that had been playing on my mind for quite some time and I appreciate the feedback!
I promise to start documenting more about my continuing journey into motherhood but right now . . . I'm not doing so good. I'm sorry but I have to say it and it doesn't make me any less appreciative of this precious miracle growing inside me, but I feel miserable. You'll remember me wishing for morning sickness just so I could feel pregnant. Well, I now have it. Bad. I vomited 6 times yesterday. I woke up at 4am this morning and spent a good half an hour hovering over the toilet feeling sick. This isn't much fun. I always had the rose tinted glasses view of pregnancy and I just never knew quite how debilitating morning sickness can be. And who called it morning sickness anyway?! This is all day and night sickness! I must say even when I was struggling to concieve I never got upset when reading complaints about MS because let's be honest - no one likes feeling sick to their stomach. It's not a pleasant feeling. I have found one thing that seems to ease it for longer than half an hour and that is Burger King cheeseburgers. Unfortunately the HG doesn't think BK cheeseburgers are very good for me but I tend to argue that baby very much likes BK cheeseburgers because it's the only thing that I can stomach right now. I can understand his concern but surely it's better for me to keep eating cheeseburgers that stay in my stomach than fruit that baby certainly DOES NOT like at all (must take after his daddy who doesn't eat any fruit - that's right, no fruit. Never has, never will!) and just bring it straight back up. What do you think? At least looking on the bright side of things having MS means baby is growing. I have a follow up BT tomorrow to check my rising beta and I think it'll be pretty good considering the way I am feeling. My last one was 12,654 at 5w4d and they said that was high (I checked a website that has a whole lot of average betas for different stages submitted in by thousands of woman and mine was about 5000 above the average so I was very pleased with that) I was also told by the nurse I may be able to come off the progesterone pessaries shortly! Yay! 
Sorry to hear you are sick! I never got mad at people complaining about MS either because throwing up is so not fun. I haven't actually thrown up (i'm strong willed), but I have felt nauseous every day since 6 weeks. I take Zofran. Look into it if you need to :).
ReplyDeleteAlso, yes, at this point you really should be eating whatever you can keep down! Your baby is going through so much growth and it's important to have food in you, even if it's only BK cheeseburgers!
That sucks you're feeling so sick! Morning sickness is horrible, and I hope it's over quickly for you. Don't worry at all about the cheeseburgers! My whole first tri all I ate was greasy take out and heavy foods, red meat and carbs. Fruit and vege made me feel sick thinking about them. When I got into the 2nd tri, fruit and vege was all I wanted to eat!!
ReplyDeleteYou might be the same :) Good luck!
Haidee, during these early days, you need to eat whatever you can keep down. Do not feel guilty about it. Think about those mums who put every sort of drug and alcohol into their body while pregnant. Are you doing that? NO. Give yourself a break and be kind to yourself. The way it works is that bubs takes all the good nutrients from you, so YOU are left with nothing (thanks, kid!)
ReplyDeleteWhenever I go through Maccas drivethrough, I think: poor women in India drink from the Gangees and their population is like, 40 billion!!!! How did these babies get here? Obviously they are okay. A BK cheeseburger isnt going to hurt.
Other side: I did EVERYTHING right with Sybella. Fruit, veges, milk, never drank alcohol, avoided smoke etc etc. And she still died.
Be kind to yourself. Everything will be okay.
So sorry that the morning sickness monster has gotten a hold of you. Eat what you can, when you can, and don't feel guilty about any of it. For me, watermelon and ginger both helped keep the pukies at bay, but just cling to whatever gets you through it.
ReplyDeleteHaidee I agree with the other comments, eat whatever you can. During my first trimester with both pregnancies cheeseburgers were a staple! This time around fruit has become my friend in tri 2 :o) My pregnancy and baby motto has become "do what works for you at the time". You are doing great, take care!!
ReplyDeleteI was a cheeseburger eater to get me through the MS as well.....Any carbs seemed to help me. Didnt help my waistline but I was able to function for those first few weeks and thats all that matters.
ReplyDeleteKeep up doing what you need to do to get through!
So sorry that you are dealing with all day sickness, I'm sure it's no fun! However, I'm so happy that everything else seems to be going so well!!! Congratulations AGAIN!
ReplyDeleteThank god for cheeseburgers! Eat whatever you can keep down for this little while Haidee. It WILL get better.
ReplyDelete(HUGS) hon, not the best part of PG. I lived on Macdonald's cheeseburgers. They didn't help when I got diagnosed with gestational diabetes, but they were the only food to ease the nausea (and pineapple juice!) Good luck with your BT tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteI want you to stop feeling guilty. I have read in numerous places that the most important thing to do in the first trimester is to eat. If all you can eat is white bread and crackers, then you eat white bread and crackers. Every thing you eat is filtered through you, and you baby takes what it needs.
ReplyDeleteYou eat burgers every single day if that's what is helping you. And you can tell HG that he only gets an opinion after he's had years of injections, blood tests, followed by 24-hour nausea.
Ice blocks and ginger ale. Shapes crackers pizza flavoured. These were the only things that helped me. I agree with the morning sickness being all day sickness and the first tri rule isn't a given either. It definately eases but can rear its ugly head further along as well sporadically. One thing that helped was having snax crackers next to the bed and as soon (the second) my eyes opened I would put one in and it helped. Although when it didn't at least there was something to come up. Ask your midwife for some meds. They are safe to use nowadays. Dehyration is not good either so go for the meds.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if there are twins in there? lol