Since Thursday I've been feeling gradually better to the point where I feel about 50-75% better, depending on the time of day. The light at the end of the tunnel perhaps? I sure hope so! I've been hoping so much that I'd start feeling better before Wednesday when I fly to Philly for a week-long visit with some friends I've missed a lot and haven't been able to see for nearly five years. If this keeps up (and hopefully improves), I'll be able to actually eat regular meals without much trouble. Hooray!
I still have my aversions (the smell of coffee, hand sanitizer, mint are among the top) and nausea but I also have an appetite that will suddenly come out of nowhere once or twice a day. Since those are the moments I feel the best, I've been jumping (or sometimes persuading Jules) to find whatever it is I'm craving or in the mood for. There have been a few evening trips to the grocery store in the past few days. Best of all, vegetables have started tasting good again. Thank goodness!
I had my second prenatal appointment today and the doctor lectured me on not getting too down on myself for not being able to eat or drink properly right now. "Women have had healthy babies without eating vegetables or drinking tons of water!" and I know she's right. Women have done a lot of things and had healthy babies so I should probably not be hard on myself. I'm able to keep my prenatal vitamin down again so that makes me feel a little better. If I get my fluids right now by drinking iced tea and 7-up, so be it. If a breakfast sandwich at a fast food place settles my stomach for hours, oh well. I'll bide my time until I can tolerate more things and cook again and I'll get back on the healthy path. As an overweight woman, I should only gain a specific amount of weight during this pregnancy and I'm just scared of getting off track. However, having lost weight so far and having my doctor tell me to relax, perhaps I should not be so worried about it just yet.
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Monday, June 11, 2012
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Added note on the 'morning' sickness/nausea...
I think part of the reason why this has really bothered me is I usually don't get queasy at ANYTHING and my sense of smell is average if anything so normally nothing phases me. I can eat a meal while watching a surgery on television. When I was younger, if one of my sister's vomited on the bathroom floor, my mom would look at me pleadingly and offer me $20 to clean it up and I jumped right up and did it no problem. Sure, I'll have the odd upset stomach or once a year have a killer hangover but none of that was enough to prepare me for the past month and a half. It's kind of freaky to feel a way in which you've never experienced before. I know I probably sound stupid for saying that because, duh, I went and got myself pregnant. How could I not expect these things to happen? Well, you can imagine how something is when you're planning for it and reading books and the internet but it's a whole other things to actually have it happen. It's given me a greater appreciation for a lot of people, let me tell you. You really don't know how something is until you actually experience it.
On a happy note, there were two brief windows in time today where I was actually hungry for food. The first was shortly after getting up this morning (I was suddenly craving a breakfast sandwich from Tim Hortons) which caused me to rush poor Jules out the door so we could get there before work. The second was 30 min before a big meeting this afternoon. I rushed out and got a veggie sub from Subway. How exciting!! I got to eat two meals today!! I sincerely hope there are more days like this to come in the near future!
I think part of the reason why this has really bothered me is I usually don't get queasy at ANYTHING and my sense of smell is average if anything so normally nothing phases me. I can eat a meal while watching a surgery on television. When I was younger, if one of my sister's vomited on the bathroom floor, my mom would look at me pleadingly and offer me $20 to clean it up and I jumped right up and did it no problem. Sure, I'll have the odd upset stomach or once a year have a killer hangover but none of that was enough to prepare me for the past month and a half. It's kind of freaky to feel a way in which you've never experienced before. I know I probably sound stupid for saying that because, duh, I went and got myself pregnant. How could I not expect these things to happen? Well, you can imagine how something is when you're planning for it and reading books and the internet but it's a whole other things to actually have it happen. It's given me a greater appreciation for a lot of people, let me tell you. You really don't know how something is until you actually experience it.
On a happy note, there were two brief windows in time today where I was actually hungry for food. The first was shortly after getting up this morning (I was suddenly craving a breakfast sandwich from Tim Hortons) which caused me to rush poor Jules out the door so we could get there before work. The second was 30 min before a big meeting this afternoon. I rushed out and got a veggie sub from Subway. How exciting!! I got to eat two meals today!! I sincerely hope there are more days like this to come in the near future!
Monday, June 4, 2012
Oh my god, I've found three things that I can consume without feeling nauseated or throwing up!
1. Apple Juice - I can actually drink an entire glass or two with no ill effects. It is AMAZING!!! Compared to water (which must be practically ice it has to be so cold to not want to gag on it) or gingerale (a few sips at best) or anything else. Hallelujah!!! I'm not going to die of dehydration.
2. Popcorn - This is the ONLY food I can eat more than a nibble without wanting to hurl. Both movie theatre popcorn and microwave popcorn seem to do the trick. We went to see Snow While and the Huntsman on Friday night and I decided to try a small popcorn. We were only 15 min into the movie when I turned to Jules and said, "Uh oh, I'm almost out of popcorn." to which Jules gave me a 'please-oh-please-don't-make-me-go-get-you-more' look. I took pity on her because we were there because she wanted to see the movie (only the third one she's actually wanted to see in the five years I've known her) so I sat there with the pleasant memory of actually enjoying food for the first time in over a month.
3. Flintstone vitamins - I'm not proud of this one. It's hard to feel good about being pregnant and taking children's vitamins but oh my god, it's better than nothing. I've been throwing up my prenatal vitamin (among other things) on a daily basis, despite trying different times of the day, etc. It's just not working for me. When I go to the doctor next week I'll be bringing it up.
I'm finding the first trimester to be very frustrating. 24/7 nausea aside, I'm so sick of not being able to eat the healthy things I need to be eating. I *hate* nibbling on soda crackers and ginger biscuits and all these bland, gross things that I normally never have in my cupboards. My fridge is filled with apple sauce, banana flavoured soy dessert, vanilla greek yogurt and carrot sticks, eggs and shredded cheese. I'm so sick of those things but they are the only things I can consistantly nibble on and keep down (mostly). The freezer is filled with frozen fruit chunks that I occasionally mix with rice milk for a smoothie (my favourite thing ever) but even that doesn't taste like it used to so I end up passing it off to Jules to finish.
Smells are like the kick while already down. Coffee, mint, garlic, tomato sauce, meat, scented body washes, shampoo and conditioner, nail polish, perfume.... FUCK!
Fortunately I have the best partner in the entire world helping me along with this miserable trimester. She's been doing all of the chores that involve the offending scents (anything to do with the kitchen, laundry, bathroom, etc.) and being unbelievably patient when I have one of my hormonal moments.
1. Apple Juice - I can actually drink an entire glass or two with no ill effects. It is AMAZING!!! Compared to water (which must be practically ice it has to be so cold to not want to gag on it) or gingerale (a few sips at best) or anything else. Hallelujah!!! I'm not going to die of dehydration.
2. Popcorn - This is the ONLY food I can eat more than a nibble without wanting to hurl. Both movie theatre popcorn and microwave popcorn seem to do the trick. We went to see Snow While and the Huntsman on Friday night and I decided to try a small popcorn. We were only 15 min into the movie when I turned to Jules and said, "Uh oh, I'm almost out of popcorn." to which Jules gave me a 'please-oh-please-don't-make-me-go-get-you-more' look. I took pity on her because we were there because she wanted to see the movie (only the third one she's actually wanted to see in the five years I've known her) so I sat there with the pleasant memory of actually enjoying food for the first time in over a month.
3. Flintstone vitamins - I'm not proud of this one. It's hard to feel good about being pregnant and taking children's vitamins but oh my god, it's better than nothing. I've been throwing up my prenatal vitamin (among other things) on a daily basis, despite trying different times of the day, etc. It's just not working for me. When I go to the doctor next week I'll be bringing it up.
I'm finding the first trimester to be very frustrating. 24/7 nausea aside, I'm so sick of not being able to eat the healthy things I need to be eating. I *hate* nibbling on soda crackers and ginger biscuits and all these bland, gross things that I normally never have in my cupboards. My fridge is filled with apple sauce, banana flavoured soy dessert, vanilla greek yogurt and carrot sticks, eggs and shredded cheese. I'm so sick of those things but they are the only things I can consistantly nibble on and keep down (mostly). The freezer is filled with frozen fruit chunks that I occasionally mix with rice milk for a smoothie (my favourite thing ever) but even that doesn't taste like it used to so I end up passing it off to Jules to finish.
Smells are like the kick while already down. Coffee, mint, garlic, tomato sauce, meat, scented body washes, shampoo and conditioner, nail polish, perfume.... FUCK!
Fortunately I have the best partner in the entire world helping me along with this miserable trimester. She's been doing all of the chores that involve the offending scents (anything to do with the kitchen, laundry, bathroom, etc.) and being unbelievably patient when I have one of my hormonal moments.
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