13 Weeks – EDC 30/05/13



22/11/12 - 13 Weeks

28/11/12 - 13 weeks 6 days

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday, 23 November 2012 – Day 1

My morning sickness has been giving me grief in the evening lately. I start feeling ill sometime after 3pm, even if I take Maxalon, so I’m pretty much restricted to drinking water once this happens. My gag reflex is pretty easy to set off too, so I really have to watch how much I open my mouth, or even be careful when I cough.

As a result of the late morning sickness, I lost another 1.5 kg this week. I now weigh less than when I fell pregnant, so I’m a little concerned about my food intake. I’m trying to make lunch my major protein meal of the day to try and help my weight gain. At this point, I should be gaining 500g a week. If it wasn’t for my thickening waist, I’d say that pregnancy is the best weight loss program I’ve ever been on.

Tuesday, 27 November 2012 – Day 5

Well, after a TERRIBLE weekend, it was wonderful to receive good news. I just found out that one of my closest friends is also pregnant, but 2 weeks behind me. I won’t say anymore, as it’s not my place to reveal, but I’m ecstatic for her. I know she’s reading my blogs with interest, and finding comparing stories interesting, so now I’ll make a concerted effort to write more J

Now, about my weekend… My grief started about lunchtime on Saturday. I’d been having cramps, but I didn’t know how bad it was until we left the house to get something for lunch. I kept trying to nibble throughout the day, which I regretted when I vomited just before going to bed, and brought up the putrid stomach contents of the day since lunchtime, which hadn’t been digested. It was absolutely disgusting, much worse than bringing up popcorn and having all the bits get stuck in your teeth again.

Of course, I was on Maxalon for the entire weekend, but it had absolutely no effect on my nausea, and my Sunday afternoon I was feeling entirely overwhelmed and like it was never going to end. Cue my first ever hormonal cry… After my Sunday morning Weet Bix made a very quick reappearance, I stuck to snacking on fruit and drinking water and chicken soup for the day. I was feeling very miserable and sorry for myself.

Monday was better though. I was still being cautious with my diet, as by this time I had a suspicion that my morning sickness was actually a stomach bug, a suspicion I still hold to but have no proof of. I managed to go to the cinema with hubby, which was nice. I did eat some popcorn, but made sure I chewed it thoroughly ;-) My diet was still mostly fruit though.

I had some gas pain problems throughout the night though. I was very close to getting hubby to take me to hospital, as the pain was radiating to my back and was rather painful, however the pain wasn’t radiating to the same spots all the time.  I decided to do some stomach prodding and got my answer when a soft spot gurgled, and I realised that I was experiencing what my mother used to call “a pain in the pinny”. A shift in position, a sleep, and then an hour with pillows moved from under my head to under my pelvis, and my pain was all gone. Well, that pain anyway. Unfortunately, in my Sunday exploits, I managed to strain my pelvic floor muscles, so sitting and various toilet gymnastics are rather painful to say the least. Having great big pockets of gas putting pressure on these presently delicate muscles was no walk in the park, but I’m glad I’m feeling better now. Oh, and I haven’t had any Maxalon since Sunday night J Next doctor’s appointment is Thursday at 8:30am.