I’m back!

I feel like I checked out of life for about 3 months, but I’m back to myself…almost.  I started feeling pretty sick at 4 weeks of pregnancy, and it just got worse and worse.  For about 10 weeks my diet consisted of strawberry pop tarts, ginger ale, and Hunts vanilla pudding snacks.

I tried a few different medications—Zofran caused such bad headaches and the headaches caused horrible nausea, so I tried Reglan, but I got insomnia and didn’t sleep 4 nights in a row.  My only true relief from morning sickness was when I was sleeping, so that obviously wasn’t going to work.  So, after playing around with those meds for a few weeks, I decided to wait it out without any pharmaceutical assistance.  Around 14 weeks I finally started feeling better.  Brian and I went to Fairfield for a week for Thanksgiving and I didn’t vomit once.  I think my parents may have questioned how sick I ever really was because I was so healthy the whole week.  They had expected me to lay in bed all day and not be able to eat anything without corn syrup in it.  I ate so well that week I think I finally gained back all the weight I had lost from the past few months. 

I still have bad days—but far fewer of them.  I’m loving healthy foods again and I have cooked real dinners for the past week.  I think I could live off oranges! 

Right before we left for Fairfield I had a doctor’s appointment.  Brian was able to come, meet my midwife, and see an ultrasound of our little baby.  They wouldn’t confirm the gender of the baby, but we have a hunch.  We can’t wait until January when we’ll find out for sure. 

Here’s our little baby:

 

We’re already so in love with this little person!