Weeks 12 & 13

The nausea is starting to get better and now only seems to happen in the evenings. Still it's rare for food to actually sound good in my mind. But I've even wanted s few cups of coffee here and there! My headaches now seem to be sinus headaches and at 13 weeks I started taking zyrtec which seems to help. I can now feel a "ball" in my stomach and have more trouble bending over. I am still super tired and some nights I am able to sleep well at night, only waking up to go to the bathroom and then being able to fall back asleep. Unfortuntely, last night was not one of those nights. I had the regular wake up at 12am and sleep restlessly until morning.

Week 11

I am still having headaches almost every day; they typically start in the afternoon.. My lower back is starting to feel pulling already. At the end of this week I went to the gym on Thursday night and ran faster than usual. On Friday I felt completely exhausted and couldn't sit or stand up without feeling like I was going to faint. I also started to have cramping which lasted through the weekend, finally worsening on Tuesday and I went in to the doctor. Wednesday it was better andit soon disappeared as abruptly as it started.

Weeks 9 & 10

Still nauseous but not as badly as the weeks before. I'm starting to feel very tired and by about 6pm my body feels as though it's 3am. Every night I wake up at 12am and have to go to the bathroom and then toss and turn all night. Ambien doesn't even work :( I've also had a headache for 2 weeks straight and tylenol doesn't do a thing.

Weeks 7 & 8

SO nauseous! Even worse than the first time. I can't stand coffee or the smell of anything. Not even diet coke. Ginger ale seems to help. I've also started having insomnia.

ONLY 8 Weeks????

2/17/11 Shock of my life when I went in for my first ultrasound at 10 weeks post conception only to find out that I was only SEVEN weeks along in the pregnancy. Devestating. Ok no, finding out the baby is in distress is devestating. I shouldn't exaggerate like that (the baby is fine). But all I could think about was HOW many more weeks of feeling this miserable?? I was also very proud to step on the scale and find that I weighed less than at this stage in my last pregnancy (which I assumed to be 10 weeks). Well now I know that I am actually 1 lb heavier than my first pregnancy at this stage! AH!

Fast forward a week. I am feeling slightly less nauseous and more like my stomach is just a bubling couldron of upset. I mitigate this by eating constantly---eating anything that doesn't cause acid upchuck. Luckily, chips, crackers, cookies, bagels, cinnamon rolls, ice cream and donuts all sit well (thank goodness for Girl Scouts! lol). I can't WAIT for my next weigh-in. Surely the doctors won't be pleased. I'm hoping my stomach will calm down enough that I can eat healthily without feeling ultra sick.

Headaches are still occurring. I've had one for the past several days---not a migraine, luckily, more like a sinus headache---I think from all the changing weather. I am also super tired but restless all the time. I actually really wish I was asleep right now but I couldn't sleep because I was hungry. I was hungry because I didn't eat a big dinner because I felt sick and was tired. Ahhh another awesome pregnancy cycle. I sure hope these delicious chocolate donuts tide me over until morning! :)

Don't Mention Food

Well nausea is at it's peak (I hope!). I didn't go to work yesterday because I spent the day before trying not to throw up while teaching. Everything except lying down in the dark with my eyes closed makes me feel worse. And the worst part is that I'm not tired. At all. So that makes for a very, very boring day. To make matters worse, for the past two weeks Mishaela has made a habit of waking up at 4am EVERY DAY. I go to bed between 7 and 8pm now but waking up at 4am is still just not for me.

Oh and I don't want to forget to mention the oily hair and skin.

Pregnancy Whoas Already

Oh how I forgot about the headaches and insomnia! Not to mention that the nausea has begun. I'm losing my taste for certain foods and feeling queasy some of the time--which makes it difficult to stomach any tylenol for my headaches. I'm also having some stomach cramping which I don't remember from my first pregnancy but google.com has assured me it's just my growing uterus and normal at this stage of pregnancy. I have also become re-obsessed with the search for the perfect double stroller!