Calling All Moms

Why do they call it morning sickness when it lasts all day?
I am SUPER smell sensitive now. I am reacting to EVERYTHING. It makes being any more than 10 feet away from a bathroom nearly impossible. (yea, yea, TMI, but wuteva! *lol*)

My baby has decided it doesn’t like: meat of any kind, corn, salads with any dressing, any color of jell-o other than purple, saltine crackers…really…he appears to hate everything. My child & I are experiencing technical difficulties because everything I like to eat he hates and everything he will allow me to keep down for a few minutes I hate. I talked to my OB because I literally cannot keep anything down for any longer than 10 minutes so he gave me what he called a “wonder drug” that will stop my sickness…he gave me a morning sickness pill…Well, all I’ve gotta say to him is LIAR!!! I’ve tried ginger gravol (which isn’t harmful to my baby) and it doesn’t work either. I am starving. I am weak and dizzy because I haven’t been able to eat in 2 weeks. My OB is concerned about Hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) now which is an extremely threatening version of the normal morning sickness (or NVP).

I am absolutely exhausted. I am up at 4 am to start the morning sickness and it doesn’t stop till almost 1 am. Lance is pulling “sympathy gagging” and actually fought me for the toilet one morning…I would’ve laughed, but I didn’t have the energy

I am still cramping really badly. The cramps don’t really stop at any time. They are continual and painful. I am not spotting or anything, so my OB is hopeful that it is just my baby “getting comfortable” and not slipping or anything.

I’ve had 2 ultrasounds so far and both times the radiologist actually took over the procedure from the ultrasound technical because she couldn’t FIND my child. The amount of fluid I am retaining is literally making it impossible…and for any woman that has had to undergo an ultrasound I am sure I don’t need to go into details about how much fun it is to have an over full bladder and then have the procedure which is supposed to last 10 minutes at most last over an hour while they ram your bladder with a hard stick over and over. Because they can’t FIND my baby on an ultrasound they are now concerned that he is in the fallopian tubes. Stay tuned, I have another ultrasound on Friday July 14th.

I am just over 8 weeks pregnant now and I am still massively swollen with water retention. My OB has confirmed Pre-Emclampsia and has warned me that I will soon be contemplating COMPLETE bed rest if I want to have any hope of carrying my child to term.

I sincerely don’t know how I am going to do 7 more months of this. My baby is trying to kill me…well… at least that’s what it feels like. I know this process isn’t easy, and it’s not really comfortable at the best of times…but this is insane.