I was really tempted to call it Baby Spice but I couldn’t do that to you all.
I’ve been feeling like shit on a shingle for the past two weeks. Not to put too fine a point on it, but about 95% of known foods are repulsive to me and I spend every waking hour feeling like I am going to throw up. Yesterday when I whined about feeling sick on Facebook, no fewer than 5 people PMed me to tell me I’m probably pregnant.
In my experience, this happens any time any woman of childbearing age feels the slightest bit ill for any reason. But I did the math, and realized this might be a possibility. I tried not to get my hopes up but I texted Sr. Weasel that it could be morning sickness and then he couldn’t concentrate at work either.
So, my meddling friends were right. My trusty home pregnancy test last night told me I am very much pregnant (Okay, I admit it, I took two. And they are both still sitting on my bathroom counter because I still don’t believe it.) My estimate is 6 weeks along. The internet says it is the size of a lentil.
We are overjoyed and very much in shock. I mean, even though we were trying to do this, it’s one thing to consider children in the abstract and another thing entirely to realize you’ve got one growing inside you. I’ve been off the pill less than three months and hadn’t even had a cycle yet, so, somehow, we were still surprised.
So… that’s happening.
Slightly tempering my delight is the fact that I still feel like pan-fried ass. I brought a case of ginger ale with me to work, and then took off for an early lunch. I drove 30 minutes for a turkey sandwich and tomato soup at Panera, and I have no regrets. First decent meal I’ve had in too long.
Thoughts:
FINALLY!
6 more weeks of this nausea? God no.
It’s going to be a person. With like a name, and a job, and maybe a pet lizard.
So sorry about the pan-fried ass part. Find foods you can tolerate and stick with them - don’t worry if they’re nutritionally perfect, just eat when you can (unless you’re snacking on cocaine. NO SNACKING ON COCAINE. ) Weirdly enough, when the nausea got terrible, I found taking showers or swimming to be helpful. I don’t know if it just took my mind off it or what, but when you’re stuck in Assville, give water a go.
Pregnancy can be crappy, fabulous, or anything in between. Here’s hoping that yours goes smoothly and the nausea abates to leave you feeling MUCH more on the fabulous side.
Sorry to hear about the nausea, and I can relate. I came out of pregnancy 30 pounds lighter than I started out. (I had plenty to lose though, so no problem. LOL!) I will say that sipping cold water all day makes a huge difference. When there is a little person growing inside you, dehydration happens faster than you can possibly imagine.
But, yeah, parts of it suck rocks, and women do not get enough credit for all that we go through. Not because we are delicate flowers, but because pregnancy is not for the weak. I promise you will get through this, and you will never again fail to give up your seat, or stop to hold a door for a pregnant woman. LOL!
I had a super unpleasant pregnancy. Seriously, I got my tubes tied after my daughter was born because I was NOT doing that again. But this morning when I took my daughter to preschool she gave me “just one more” hug and kiss eleven times. In the end it is so worth it, but it does suck super hard while you are slogging through the pregnancy part of it.
I recommend keeping granola bars and juice boxes in your desk at work because IME you need to put food in you every 90 minutes for the first few months of pregnancy to prevent feeling like you are going to vomit and faint at the same time. I hope that helps some!
Heh. You will have to come back and tell us when it’s as big as a little black olive and again when it’s the size of one of those honkin’ big green ones.
Congratulations, I am very happy for your and Mr Weasel.
Thanks everyone. You all made me smile. I am tired and I want to go to bed. Apparently building a human consumes a lot of energy.
The highlight of my day was a turkey sandwich and tomato soup at Panera bread. It’s the first meal I’ve eaten in like two weeks. I’m trying the alternate strategy of ''eating constantly." It seems stomach upset is inevitable but I’ve had less nausea today.
Eating constantly does help, but nothing HELP helps until the second trimester. Sorry about that.
The good thing is, in a couple months you get to stop sucking your gut in. (Even if you didn’t have a gut but sort of think you might.). It’s awesomely liberating!
Congratulations. Pregnancy is weird and gross and very uncomfortable but also fascinating.
Also - I don’t know if you read my thread last week about my totally scary and traumatic birth experience, but do NOT let yourself talk yourself out of calling your doctor with “it’s probably nothing”. It is probably nothing and they get paid to deal with your nervous ass. Sometimes it’s not nothing.
Tummy troubles: I was, fortunately, largely free of this (don’t kill me, I made it up for it in other ways!!) but in the early days with Moon Unit, I remember a morning where I was empty-stomached and nauseous and trying to shovel some cereal into my mouth with one hand while holding an autistic 2-year old who screamed every time I tried putting him down so I could eat. I finally had to wake up my husband to deal with that because otherwise it was not gonna be pretty.
And the day we all picked up lunch to take to a work-through-lunch meeting and I got my favorite spicy chicken dish from the Thai restaurant, and I ate a bit and thought “hmm”, and ate a bit more and realized things were not going to end well if I persisted. It was a year before I could eat that dish again. :mad:
So my advice on the food is like others - eat what you can tolerate, bland stuff or whatever seems to sit well; keep something bland nearby at all times.
But also do not call your doctor and tell them that you’re bleeding from your vagina, when all you did was cut your leg while shaving and then put your underwear on and got the blood on them. Not that I did that, but you, know, I heard about it, on the street.
And yes, congratulations!
Find foods you can tolerate and stick with them - don’t worry if they’re nutritionally perfect, just eat when you can (unless you’re snacking on cocaine. NO SNACKING ON COCAINE. 
) Weirdly enough, when the nausea got terrible, I found taking showers or swimming to be helpful. I don’t know if it just took my mind off it or what, but when you’re stuck in Assville, give water a go.
