katie, I have found that I have way more of an appetite in the evenings. It's mostly just me nibbling throughout the day on nothing that seems substantial (or appetizing). I do have a lower energy level, but fortunately this is the off-week for my boot camp. I'm not sure how next week is going to go when we start up again... I've gotten conflicting information from my nutritionist and my midwife. MW says to eat something small every two hours whether I want to or not. Nutritionist says don't eat (within reason) if I'm not hungry. 
Midwife is right. You are not receiving the hungry signals because of the hormones. Part of the reason nausea is worst in the mornings for a lot of moms is because you haven't eaten in such a long time. When I was PG with DD I woke up at night to barf sometimes, and I started keeping food near the bed so I could eat a little if I woke to go to the bathroom. Frequent protein was her advice and it did work. Protein drinks.
Yikes. Well, I certainly don't want to trigger morning sickness by not eating cuz I don't feel like it!
Sorry I've not been keeping up with posts the last few days, I've been feeling pretty yucky. Katie So glad you're getting over the nasty cold, sounded rotten! I hear you on exhaustion - I am beyond tired. Last night I made a quick dinner (yeah for leftovers) and fell right asleep at 6:30. I was woken up around 8pm and then couldn't fall back asleep. Finally managed to sleep from 11pm-1am, woke up to pee and then was up until almost 3:30. Up for the day ~4:30. Ugh! No good. And I feel so nauseous, almost constantly now. While I continue to find this reassuring, I am having a hard time teaching when I feel so gross. And everything smells awful. I remember weeks 5 and 6 being the morning sickness weeks for me with DD. Really hoping this time around is the same and this passes as quickly as it came 
I've found lemon hard candies and wintergreen mints helpful. And eating often. I don't want to, but it helps.
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Hey ladies,
I am just so tired. I feel like I haven't slept in days. There is a mountain of clothing to be folded and put away and a bathroom that needs scrubbed and I am just exhausted. It is like a bone tired that a nap won't fix...
Ugh. and the nausea.
I really enjoy the soup I made and townhouse crackers though.
We have this couch that has one of those ottoman things attached. and since I am only 4"11 it exactly fits me. I took full advantage of this yesterday when our sitter was unable to pick up kids from playschool and laid there all. freakin'. day. I only got up to take the kids to school and then retrieve them. I felt sort of guilty but only the teensiest of bits that my house is officially a disaster. Today and yesterday have been terrible in terms of nausea. I've thrown up so many times today. the only thing I can keep down is ginger ale. Which annoys me because I don't have the natural stuff in the house so right now i am giving baby lots of high fructose corn syrup--go, Mom! I see my m/w on Monday and am hoping that by then I will have been able to keep more liquids down. I normally drink 80 ozs of water a day. Today and yesterday I've gotten about 10 to stay.
My zumba class was cancelled thankfully so I did not have to steel myself through an hour.
And mostly I am tired of ME complaining. AND my best mommy friend keeps telling me that this is surely a sign that I am having twins 
I don't think it is but every time she says it, I pause and consider my life with two little ones 
My dd is so sweet, though. She has no idea that I'm pregnant but wants a baby sister so badly. I asked her if she'd help me out and she said of course. Her first item of business? changing the little one's diaper. She's also trying to potty train my DS which I find hilarious. I'm in no rush and neither is he but she is hell bent on getting that kid out of diapers 
I hate to break it to her, but if the m/s doesn't subside soon then I know I am having a little boy.
Anyone else feeling guilty about their inability to contribute anything to the household? I still work with the kids and pets and have done some laundry but only because it had to be done; DS was out of pants. Probably wouldn't bother him to go pants-less...
But I feel just so terrible when DH is picking up all of the other slack.
I get that underwater feeling! That's exactly it.
Had a pretty rotten day today--woke up feeling tired and weepy, then pulled a muscle in my back in the shower, couldn't breathe, had to accompany my son (who has autism) on a 4th grade field trip to the state legislature where he had a meltdown big enough for the entire state legislature to hear, and it just went on and on and I lost it and I could not stop crying either and another mom was totally rude to me and I lost it on her too. Honestly. No one knows I'm pregnant so I can't even use that as an excuse. At least I didn't throw up on anyone.
We should just get the 1st trimester off from life, shouldn't we? We should all get to go to 1st trimester land where we are fed easily digestible food and can sleep and watch movies and read all the time.
I've been pretty tired and pretty negligent with the chores as well, which is awful as I'm a SAH wife with no kids so it's my job! At least I can't stand to eat anything so I haven't been making to much of a mess in the kitchen. But Sunday is DH's day off and I've made him promise to help me clean up the flat then. He is so bad about leaving crap everywhere, so he totally owes me.
I ordered two bottles of ginger capsules online (just ginger, nothing else). Has anyone tried these to help with nausea? I'm wondering if they will do anything. I hope they work if only because they were so expensive! All of the shops near me had only ginger capsules made with beef gelatine or the vegetarian ones were ginger extract, which I'm not comfortable with, so I had to pay extra and wait.
I too am super tired. I am cooking, with 3 kids thats not an option, but the dishes are just piling up. I've washed clothes, but they're sitting around in baskets. Stuff is piling up on counters and it drives me crazy, but I'm too tired to deal with it. We have managed to do most of our school work this week (we homeschool), but the kids are not getting outside enough and there has been too much playing on the iPad (them and me!). When I should be cleaning or doing something with my kids, instead I just want to surf MDC all day and read birth stories. My dh wants to dtd, and I'm like 'you've got to be kidding!' I just want to sleep! I'm thinking the first trimester will be over -and hopefully my tiredness- right around the end of the school year. Then I'll feel great all summer, and when we start schooling again in the fall it'll be right in time for third trimester tiredness!! Sometimes I'm super tired, but lots of times it's almost more like super laziness, I'm too lethargic to do something.The house being a disaster and me not accomplishing much is giving me nightmares as to what is going to happen when the baby comes. I've never been homeschooling with a new baby before. My oldest was 5 when my last baby was born, but we didn't do anything official for school till he was 6, so it didn't matter. I could just spend the whole day lazing around enjoying my baby and kids. Now, I need to accomplish teaching my (then) 8 and 6 yo's. DH is not 100% sold on homeschooling, and I don't want there to be any problems. Not that he's super picky or hard on me or anything, he just worries if i can handle it with a newborn thrown in too... so we won't get dressed and the kids wont take classes (maybe, on the other hand maybe it'll be good to get out) but the problem will only be my tiredness, not the baby per se. i think the following year with a 1yo running around getting into everything will be harder! I wish I was better at getting moving in the morning and having our not very long school day over before lunch. I'm dragging so much the day just drags out and before I know it, it's time to make dinner.
Ok, I rambled all over the place in that post. blame it on pregnancy brain! 
Sleepymama. That sounds like a terrible day!! Hope your weekend improves your outlook.
I am so tired and nauseous. I'm just staring at my pile of clean laundry, must be 4 loads, and I have no motivation to fold it/put it away. I am usually a pretty organized mama and I hate having my house looks so chaotic but I just can't get myself to do any more around the house. I work full time, M-F, 10+ hour days, with an hour+ commute at both ends of my day. I am totally done when I get home. I've still been cooking, but super simple meals. Not what I usually make (though that's more smell related I guess). And now that the weekend is here, I am too tired to anything now too!! It will all get done eventually. Leaning into discomfort here and letting go, cutting myself some slack 
I hear you, Jocie and Vaquitita. I feel too gross to have ANY interest the past week in DTD. Also not like me.
Hi! I mostly put my info on the due date thread, oops!
I'm another homeschooling mom! It looks like there are several of us, neat! :) We're pretty relaxed as far as curriculums go, though I do like the classical model for history. My oldest son is 7, my younger one is 3. I had a rather late miscarriage between the two boys, which makes things a little difficult, but after having a successful pregnancy I'm going to try to enjoy this one.
We all got colds a few weeks ago, then we all got NEW colds right after getting well! I've always known for certain I was pregnant from the unreasonable fatigue, starting right after conception, it seems like, but this time it was masked by being sick, so I wasn't sure if I was pregnant or not!
I'm having contraction-type tightness and very mild aches a lot of the time, like some of you mentioned. I had the same thing in the last two pregnancies (and it wasn't related to the mc, it went away a good while before. The mc felt completely different, no mistaking it.) - so, no worries!
I've been feeling a lot less tired the last few days, as I finish fighting off this cold. (Seriously, it WILL NOT GO AWAY, I still can't sing to the boys, but it is getting very slowly better.) I even got outside and started up our garden! Last year I didn't even plant anything. This year I have motivation - fresh greens for growing this baby! :)
I'm scared of having three boys! We tried the Shettles method for a girl, for what good that might do. It kept us from getting pregnant at all the first two months we tried, heh. I've been trying for three years to be okay with having a third boy... still trying! I almost decided to try fostering to adopt instead, to make sure we got a girl - if it weren't for the risk of getting a baby and having to give her back, I probably would have. And now if this one ends up a boy, doing that would mean four kids, which was what I always wanted before I had kids, but now it seems like a lot. :) We didn't find out ahead of time last time (except for trying two IntelliGender tests which both said GIRL!), but this time we'll probably get an ultrasound to give us some time to get our attitudes adjusted if it's another boy. :) I just keep telling myself that gender isn't as important as personality anyway, and I don't know anything about fashion, and I can hardly keep the boys' hair brushed, what would I do with longer hair? We'll see.
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