Seriously. I have NEVER had first trimester pregnancy nausea confined to just the morning. I pretty much feel barfalicious all day long. With my first, the all day nausea ended with the first trimester, but I continued to be sick (and occasionally vomit if I wasn’t careful about how I got out of bed) pretty much every morning until delivery. The first morning I woke up and didn’t feel queasy was the day after he was born, and that’s no exaggeration.
With my second, the queasiness and vomiting were MUCH worse. I developed the most sensitive gag reflex and would quite literally gag at just the thought of something gross. I’d always had an iron stomach and it was *really* hard to make me sick, so this was a very new experience for me. I think it was worse that time because I was on progesterone throughout my 1st trimester to prevent miscarriage. It worked, but it definitely made me sick. Luckily the worst of the nausea passed after the first trimester and I felt pretty good for the rest of my pregnancy (at least until I had the kidney stones from hell…but that was at 35 weeks!) so it wasn’t too awful.
This time I am not vomiting, but the super sensitive gag reflex is back and I am soooooo queasy all the time. I can’t eat. I’ve lost about 10 pounds in the last 2 weeks and my caloric intake is somewhere in the 800-1000 range most days. The heat doesn’t help (though it feels almost blissfully cool outside today!) and almost nothing sounds good. The exception is cold mango flavored stuff. Haagen Dazs has an amazing mango sorbet sipper that I could live off of, if only we had one in Sanford. I tried it at the mall in Durham last weekend and it was amazing how good it tasted. Mango popsicles are also a favorite right now. I’ve been searching Sanford for a mango smoothie but haven’t found one yet.
Luckily the midwife wrote me a prescription for a drug called Zofran yesterday. It was originally developed for chemo patients but over the last few years has also been prescribed to many pregnant women for “morning” sickness. I hear this stuff is amazing…unfortunately, nobody in town had the generic in stock. BUT it has been ordered and I can pick it up tomorrow. My insurance company will only let me have 12 a month but at this point I’d be thrilled if I could eat every other day.
Thanks for all the comments and congratulations yesterday! We are definitely super excited and very happy. A little daunted by the idea of being outnumbered, but since 3 children has been our vision for so long we couldn’t be more thrilled. I honestly thought there would be no more biological kids for us after our struggles with the last one. I guess someone had other plans for us!
