Okay so I have now arrived at the usual start date for my morning sickness! I feel horribly nauseated tonight. Horrrribly. The morning was not too bad at all, as we were at church and although I felt queasy, it was easier to ignore because of all the distraction of the service and people to talk to, and the little ones rushing about. Late afternoon today I was trying to snack on something I could bear eating, knowing that I would not be able to attempt dinner if I didn't ease the nausea a bit before dinner time. That feels awfully familiar to me now! Dinner was hard to eat, I felt so sick, and had to eat it in three sittings over about an hour. Leaving my tummy half or mostly empty would have been a big mistake, which I would have discovered about an hour later! So I ate almost all of it. Now it's mid-evening and I have had a yoghurt (note to self: do not eat any more yoghurt until the end of the first trimester) and am now nibbling digestive biscuits. I feel so sick! :( I may just have to go to bed to try and shut it off by sleeping, I think.
So morning sickness is DEFINITELY here. But it didn't start today, or yesterday. It has definitely been going since 5 weeks and 1 day, but it has become worse over the course of the week, I think. Verrrry subtly because I can't really pinpoint when it has become worse. I know I felt like this last night, and much of yesterday actually. And I've had moments like this in the couple of days before that. Anyway, the main thing is that it's HERE, and I'm relieved to have reached the 5w6d mark for some reason. The anticipation was getting uncomfortable! Now to just ride it out till it finishes, which I really hope will be by about 14 weeks. If it does carry on longer (which it has done for 50% of my pregnancies before now) then at least I know I will likely feel MUCH better from 14 weeks until it goes away, and it will be much more manageable. 8 weeks to go! :S Glad the time will go fast!
Tomorrow I will be 6 weeks pregnant! :) Yay! No spotting or bleeding of any sort yet. I did go to the toilet twice at church to check, because I felt a bit leaky, but it was nothing. I have more CM than usual today, but that's just a pregnancy thing. Doesn't help a slightly nervous pregnant woman though!
Not much else really. Things taste quite bitter today - carbs and such, which I don't think they have done for the earlier part of the week. In fact that might be new today? It's only when I feel really sick, and it's only really bread and biscuits and things like that. Carbs. Bitter = mouth watering all the time = worsening nausea. Yucko. I think I am going to try sucking mints like Valerie suggested! I'll give anything a try really. If it doesn't work for me then oh well.
I have been feeling quite crampy and achy lately. Definitely today and yesterday. I have continued to have some low pain that I can't really decide about - whether it's bowel or womb related. It's just sore and in a location for both, and could be either. I have been thinking bowel, and have definitely had crazy wind (!) recently and some other somewhat TMI issues (!!), but that seems a lot better today and I'm still feeling crampy. Without the bowel-ish issues in the way, it does feel a lot more clearly like womb crampiness. It's not exactly crampiness though either. Sometimes it's just like a dragging achiness. It also hurts through to the small of my back a lot of the time, and it's just distractingly uncomfortable most of the time I'm up and about through the day. The boys climb on my tummy - well, the two littlest do - and it's unbearable to have them press down on my lower tummy any more. I can't even let Nathey sit down on my tummy like he sometimes does for me to read a story to him when I'm reclining. I can't let the pressure be placed on my abdomen - it's too uncomfy. I normally notice the top of my uterus juuuust at the top of my pubic bone at around 8 weeks. So I'm thinking if I DO have two in there, I would be able to feel my uterus there even earlier? I don't know about this early, but there's nothing yet. I wondered if the achiness was just that "growing" type of discomfort to do with the womb stretching and growing in early pregnancy, but I am not sure really. No spotting anyway, and that's a big relief! :)
I announced my pregnancy on Facebook the other day, which was lots of fun! :) So now everybody knows really. Lots of people at church are on Facebook and so when I went today pretty much everybody knew, and I got lots of congratulations, and "You're brave!" type of comments, and so on! It turns out that there's some sort of baby boom going on at church, because EVERYBODY is pregnant, and I only knew about a couple of them! That's so nice! :) One of my friends at church, who I just discovered is pregnant, was saying to another pregnant friend (see!!) who was congratulating me, "I KNEW Alice was pregnant!" We asked her how she knew, and she said, "Well, everybody else is pregnant, so I thought Alice must be too!" hahaha! ;) Babies come in "batches" at our fairly small church. We have about a year of no births, and then a handful over a few months, and then another quiet patch, and so on. So far, over the last 5-6 years, I have been part of every single "batch" of babies at church, so maybe that's where this friend was coming from?! ;) Anyway it is fun to have the news "out there"! Nobody at our church has ever had more than 4 children in the whole time we've been there. And actually there's only one couple who had 4 children! Everyone else has had the standard 2, with the exception of a couple of families having 3. So we're REALLY WEIRD at church! But everyone seems happy and excited for us, so that's nice.
Today I am 27 days past ovulation, and my Tiny Pip has just finished Carnegie Stage 12 of embryonic development, and has already begun Carnegie Stage 13. Soooo much is going on inside my body right now, it's just amazing! The eyes and the ears have just begun to form. The neural tube is now closed, and upper limb buds have just appeared! Valves and septa are forming in that teeny tiny precious little heart that is beating away already. Amaaaazing! So wonderful to imagine! :) Tiny Pip is about 4 or 5mm long, easily visible to the naked eye, and curved into a 'C' shape. I love that tiny bean!!!!
Oh and we have a boy's name! Seriously, already! :) Two nights ago I was just busying myself on the laptop, and a name popped into my head - one we've considered in the past, even from the first pregnancy, but which had never seemed all that special to me before. Well, a lovely name, but not special enough to me the other times. Neil liked it before though. Anyway, it popped into my head and I loved it enough to call out the name to Neil in the kitchen. He called back, "Yeah! Great one!" and I settled back to my laptop stuff happily. And literally within about 30 seconds, I KNEW that was the name. Almost to the point where I started to think that surely this baby MUST be a boy, since I have had this familiar "know it in my knower" feeling before and it always has turned out to be a boy those times too, hehe! Anyway, oh how I love this name suddenly! I love it when I say all FIVE boys' names in a row - it sounds nice with the four we already have. It sounds nice with our surname. I adore the meaning. I like it, like it, like it! :) It stayed on my mind till bedtime, by which time I could totally picture this little one with this name as I laid my hand low on my abdomen and talked fondly to him (I guess I should say him/her!). By yesterday I was almost feeling like I would feel sad if the baby DIDN'T turn out to be a boy, because then we wouldn't have our "____", you know? How funny to think that I already have four boys, and zero daughters, and that I might have a sense of disappointment if it's a girl - hahaha! That just strikes me as funny! ;) Last night I prayed that if this baby IS a girl (or a couple of them!) that we would still be blessed with our "____" after the girl(s)! I do so love the little one that I have attached to the boy name. Last night Neil randomly said to me, "You know that name you mentioned the other night? Well, I love it. That's the one!" So we are definitely agreed! I do wonder if that alone points to the baby being a boy?! Who knows how we'll ever agree on a girl's name! ;)
Anyway it is lovely to know that we are TOTALLY ready with a boy's name! We haven't discussed middle names for it, but I already have two that I love that I know Neil would be happy choosing from, so that's good! :)
Well I am feeling so sick. I think I will have to stop using the laptop and maybe go to bed. An early night wouldn't be a bad thing anyway - I have been so tired lately. Maybe it might even ease the nausea a bit to be less exhausted? Here's hoping! I'll update again soon!
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