GRIPE thread...feel free to join in! lol

[apmama2myboo]

so i started spotting on tuesday, nurse said don't worry. and as i spotted with my dd, i wasn't terribly worried, and i know what to look for. Yesterday i thought maybe i was done spotting, but then today it's back. it's there just enough to be annoying. I have been drinking lots of water, not doing any heavy lifting I don't have to do (dd is 35 lbs, so sometimes i don't have a choice, obviously LOL), and taking it kind of easy. I am SO sick. I have tried eating different things, so many different things. i am stuck with only being able to keep down gingersnaps, dry toast (gag me), chocolate shakes and fries from mcdonald's (ick i know), and ice cream. I have tried SO many other things. I have a ginger and lemon herbal tea that helps. i wear sea bands a lot. just so sick of throwing up. I know i've lost about 6 lbs. in about the last week and a half. kind of sucks. I take extra B6 before bed along with my prenatal, but it's not helping. every little thing gets under my skin and irritates me. this can be somethign stupid like getting mad at myself for forgetting something, to walking into a room going, "why am i here?" and i know i've been less patient with my dd, poor lil soul.
and i go to bed at like 9, never get enough sleep. i haven't been down in my studio to paint all week, or even draw, i just have NO energy. anyone in this boat? Anyone else want to join in on the gripe thread? oh and peeing every hour is getting REALLY old.

(i am grateful to be blessed with another baby, and it is SO worth it in the end, but I have given myself permission to hate this phase until i'm done hurling up a spleen on a daily basis!)

jen
caitlyn 2/9/04
edd 4/7/08

[apriljoy]

I'm sorry. I'm not there yet, but I'm expecting it any day now. The first few months of pregnancy really suck when you're plagued by nausea (ask me how I know :irked: ). Feel free to gripe all you want--if you can't gripe when you're pregnant, when can you? :hug

[celestialdreamer]

:hugs I know those feelings well. I am not there yet either, but its probably coming for me soon. I hope you feel better soon!

[apmama2myboo]

it helps to have pity! :) and now that even GINGERSNAPS, the beloved GINGER SNAPS, have turned on me, i'm left with even less i can eat. i am keeping down water today. yippee. i wish i could crawl into a cave and sleep for the next at LEAST 3 months.

[Ironica]

I've had less nausea this time around than with my last pregnancy, which may be because my diet is radically different. DS is allergic to gluten, dairy, and canola; I've figured out that soy doesn't work for me, so I'm off ALL those things. It doesn't mean I don't have nausea (I feel pretty crappy right this minute) but I've actually done a bit of cooking here and there, which I couldn't even think about last time.

I only threw up once with DS, and I think that was food poisoning, but I just spent the first three months feeling mostly like if I thought about food, I'd hurl. Which made it difficult to cope with the ravenous hunger, too. ;-)