How is everyone feeling? - Page 3

[IntuitiveJamie]

I have been smelling fish too. I keep looking for left over fish in my fridge, but there isn't any! I kept saying to my husband; "where is that fish smell coming from?!"

I did not have the fish thing the other pregnancies, but did have a very sensitive nose.

[Ayame87]

I haven't felt nearly as much with this pregnancy as I did with my first.  I was so dizzy I couldn't stand, I couldn't look at a ceiling fan without wanting to vomit, certainly couldn't even look at the computer screen.  Every smell made me want to vomit etc.  No breast tenderness last time.

THIS TIME, I feel like I'm not even pregnant. I almost want to keep peeing on sticks until my first Doc appt.  I'm just that nervous.  Last time I had no doubts, I don't know why.  As long as I eat first thing in the morning, and keep BS up, I'm great.  I get REALLY fatigued around 6pm, but that's it.  Breast tenderness so bad, huge bbs.  I get hot a lot faster... a little hungier than normal.  :)  That's it!  I'm glad I can not be sick and actually take care of my 2 yr old!  I'm 5 weeks 5 days.

[LadyJennifer]

My feeling good has gone downhill lately. The nausea is much harder to combat, and oh! The tiredness is unbelievable!! I have been getting 10-11 hours of sleep a night (minus getting up to pee and waking to nurse ds) and I'm still dead tired in the morning!!
I can barely function, my house is a mess, and I have two little ones to take care of. Ugh. I hope it's over soon.

[Springshowers]

Jennifer I am the same. I brought my daughter to the bathroom this morning at about 7 am and almost fell over holding her. I had to go back to bed and let my husband take over.. I got super hot and sweaty I felt so sick. I so didn't feel like this last time that I remember.

[tjjazzy]

the fatigue!!! is it bc it's pregnancy #3 or bc i'm older or bc i have 2 kids to care for??? i'm SO tired. i am dreading walking to my ds1's school to pick him up later. i might not make it pushing 36 pounds ds2 in the stroller! my house is suffering a bit and i'm getting snappy and grouchy as well. eep! it is NOT helping that ds2 isn't sleeping well. he's such an odd sleeper. sometimes he sleeps right through no problem and other times, he wakes in the night. ugh. i'm trying to get him out of the habit of waking up for a sippy of milk and just giving him water. he took the water at bedtime no problem last night (he doesn't always go to bed with a sippy but sometimes he likes to) but i was too tired to think about it at 1 a.m. when he woke up next (and i sent DH in when he woke at 5 a.m. for whatever reason...) then he let me sleep til 8 thankfully. now to get him to sleep through til 8 without the waking up bit!!!

[Coonifer]

I feel fine, but I am so sleepy, it's ridiculous.  I keep putting my head down on the floor while playing cars with my son, and he gripes at me: "No sleeping, Momma!"  I am hungry, but that's nothing new really.  Since I had a miscarriage a few months ago, I am trying to remain a little detached, and I worry a bit at every twinge. 

I'm not telling people yet, but know I'll slip up sooner or later.  I had people over for knitting last night, and there were a couple odd looks when I passed on the wine.  The fact that I ate the entire bowl of popcorn meant for 5 people probably added to some people's suspicions! 

[Thing1Thing2]

My first symptom was my DS crying angrily at the breast in the middle of the night! Even with that, I still had no clue what was going on. Decreased milk supply at it's worst!

2 days later, got a BFP. We weren't planning this one, with so much going on right now with our living situation. Maybe 3 months ago we would have been overjoyed...

Extremely nauseous, but I realized last night that as long as I have a piece of bagel in my mouth at all times, its manageable. Also, I've just discovered lemons!

The "girls" aren't too sore. Really tired and want to lie in bed all day. With a 2.5 year old, that won't be happening any time soon.

But yes, my house is a mess. And I didn't even have a clean pot to make my son lunch this afternoon... had to wash one while choking down a bagel...

Ughhhh I wasn't expecting the morning sickness to be this bad.. and I'm only 6 weeks!

[Smurfy]

Does anyone from Canada know if it's safe to take acetominophen with Diclectin?  I've caved, quite quickly and easily actually, and decided to go ahead and take the Diclectin so I can function again, but now I've got body aches from laying on the couch and it's making me very uncomfortable and difficult to sleep.

[FarmerCathy]

So much better today.  I think its because I worked out yesterday and then got up to pee twice and had a snack each time.  So much better today.

[Smurfy]

Well I started taking Diclectin, a much lower dose than what I took with my son, it hasn't completely gotten rid of the nausea, especially in the morning, but it has taken the edge off so I can at least function and get some food down.  On the flip side it's making me SO groggy, good thing DH is being unbelievably helpful and understanding. 

[Thing1Thing2]

Last week was so bad with the nausea. This week I think I'm starting to see a pattern.

I have to see if my theory holds out, but I think get sickest from 12 - 3pm. and from 9pm - 1am.

I'm also going to try keeping my blood sugar low, since the pancreas has a difficult time in early pregnancy - and I think I'm really feeling the effects of it...

Dizziness and feeling like the room is spinning seems to me like more of a blood sugar symptom...

[activealli]

I'm changing my status. From OK to less than OK.

Ugh... i feel TERRIBLE. I feel like I'm battling the stomach flu. I'm so tired I can barely function. I can't think straight. I'm so nauseous, if I wasn't pregnant I would not eat anything. No barfing yet, just all day nausea and feel like a cool icky feeling in the back of my throat. My body is achy and feels heavier than usual. I don't want to leave the house!

Its nearly impossible to get any work done. Everything is taking twice the time and effort to get even the smallest tasks done. My sense of smell is driving me nuts. I went to the barn to hold the horses for the farrier (hoof trimming) and normally, the smell of the horsey poo and hay is a welcome scent (odd, I know, its a horse thing) but now it disgusts me. Of course my rescue mare was so excited she pooped when she saw me. I almost started gagging.

Ugh... going to go take a luke warm bath and see if I can just go to sleep by 8pm...

Counting down the weeks till Im out of the first trimester (5.5), where Im hoping Ill find some relief.

[Smurfy]

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Originally Posted by activealli 

I'm changing my status. From OK to less than OK.

Counting down the weeks till Im out of the first trimester (5.5), where Im hoping Ill find some relief.

I agree, first trimester sucks!!  I feel like I have a 24/7 stomach flu, I'm eating terrible because all I want is unhealthy stuff, except fruit for some reason I want fruit.  Plus my DS came down with the real flu today, fortunately he's just feverish, coughing and moaning a lot, so no gross laundry yet, lets hope that holds cause I'm not sure I can handle pukey laundry!  Then I have the whole worry of getting the flu myself, cause what I need with all this "morning sickness" is body aches and fever while chasing a two year old and doing pukey laundry! 

[dramamamax4]

Today I feel like crap.  I was nauseus all early morning and finally threw up this AM.  However, not sure if it's morning sickness or the stomach flu as all of my kids have had it this week.  Although my husband has been on puke duty. . . and he's fine.  I have been dizzy, tired, although I am always waking up in the middle of the night.  Boobs have started to get sore and some mild headaches.  Blah. . .but I love it, though! 

Smurfy, with my first daughter, I couldn't get enough of fruit!!!

[FarmerCathy]

Like my brain doesn't work anymore.  Seriously at work though I can't remember the simplest things and then I almost fell over twice(balance issues) and once in front of a customer.   When I mix paint, it really stinks now. 

I'm in a fog this am though, my blood sugar was really low, luckily I wasn't nauseous.  I ate 3 snacks in the middle of the night, but it was still low.  I had to start taking insulin again for my diabetes so I'm just trying to figure out the right dose.  I had to stop taking my supplements that help with my diabetes because they haven't been tested on pregnant women and I don't want to mess with the little guy while he's growing his organs this trimester. 

[redpajama]

So far, so good!  I'm only a *teeny* bit pregnant, though, so we'll see.  I've never had any big symptoms this early, so I don't expect anything for a few more weeks.

[justthinkn]

I have such sore breasts - and I'm so thrilled about it!  I didn't experience a lot of breast change during my pregnancy with DD, and it turns out for me it was b/c I already had a problematic lack of breast tissue, which led to major nursing problems.  (Though we still made it til almost 3yo with LOTS of support and some little tubes )  So seeing and feeling all these breast changes this time gives me so much hope!  I would LOVE to nurse without tubes this time!

[Lisa1970]

I am starving to death.

[Princessjules]

I was feeling great, but all this week I've felt awful... today was the best day so far I hope this continues cause I get excited about eating!

Other than that my breasts are sore  and I'm always exhausted, I've gained like 5 pounds and my pants aren't fitting anymore.

This is my 1st pg so I have nothing to compare it to... can someone please tell me it gets better?!

[justthinkn]

It gets better, esp. if you keep exercising however much you can - all the sudden, you'll hit 2nd tri and have so much energy one day! 

Meanwhile, I fell asleep at 8p, which is normal these days, but now I'm at 2a, in part b/c I had something important I was planning to get done in the morning, mostly b/c pregnancy makes sleep so wacky!!  My body decided now would be the best time to wake up to do it?  I work Sunday mornings, so I hope I can fall back asleep now that I've got my prep work done.