Yes, we are about 8 1/2 weeks along now, and I am well into my First Trimester. All the rumors are true, the 1st Tri is a "B" (capital B).
Thus far, my symptoms include nausea, exhaustion and fits of continual burping. I not only suffer from the typical morning nausea, but also from a daily "evening" nausea...it's lots of fun (can you sense my sarcasm?), I can pretty much predict it down to the half hour now. I guess I can consider myself lucky, though...I have yet to experience true morning "SICKNESS"...so far, just nausea. I am happy to announce that I did skate thru the morning today with no nausea at all...you could have picked my jaw up from the ground, I was so shocked...it had actually become a part of daily morning routine, and then, this morning, nothing. Hallelujah!!! Now, all I have to do is get thru this evening. As for the exhaustion...that sucks!! It is unlike a "tired" I have ever felt before...I honestly feel like "death warmed over". It started out where I was just plain wiped out for the entire day, but after beginning the pre-natals, I am happy to say that I think it's getting better...now I just have patches in the day in which I feel super tired. The evening is usually the worst, though, but why wouldn't it be, it follows a long day of work...totally makes sense...but when you have a cake business on the side of your usual day job, which means cake decorating after work, it makes for one hell of an evening. Thankfully, Tiffany (my sis) is a trooper and is being totally understanding to my new found energy level (which is LOW) and totally picks up the slack!! I do have a wonderful business partner!! BUT, the best symptom is the burping...j/k. It isn't all day, and not even everyday, but once it starts, it takes forever to stop!! If you're asking yourself, what does she mean by continual burping...imagine yourself burping every 30-45 seconds and it lasting anywhere from 20-30 minutes, sometimes longer...that's my continual burping. The other night, I was with Tiffany at Wal-Mart picking up some supplies for this weekend's cake orders, and the burping began before we arrived and lasted throughout Wal-Mart and into the drive home. I did my best to keep them quiet, but secretly all I could do is pray they would stop. The best ones are the ones that follow my daily pre-natal vitamin, which contains Omega3...for those of you who have never taken an Omega3 supplement, it comes from fish oil, and it tastes like it comes from fish oil...these burps have now been nicknamed "Fish Burps"...probably enough said.
Thus far, we have only had the one doctor's appointment. We go back for a follow up on June 14th. We were lucky enough to have our first sonogram during the first visit, which was really neat, because we were already able to see the baby...didn't look like more than a little blob on the screen, though, but it was a cute blob, just beating away (you could see the heartbeats). But, I am hoping to have our 2nd sonogram during the second appointment, hoping that our baby will be more of the peanut shape that I've seen in my friends' sonograms, so I can stop calling our little one "Our Little Blob" and begin calling him/her "Our Little Peanut".
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Magan- just some advice in case you want it. I had the burping problem too and it actually progressed into full-blown terrible acid reflux by the time I reached the end of my 2T I was therowing up from food and water coming right back up the throat. Totally disgusting and painful. I recommend taking your pre-natals at night, right before you go to bed, then you should be sleeping when you normally get the burps. Hopefully your nausea will go away by 12-13 weeks too-- I know for most people it gets worse and intensifies until around 10 weeks and then slowly starts getting better until around 13 weeks. The exhaustion will subside then too. You are suo lucky to have Tiffany to help with the business! What a great sister! Oh- one more thing I was going to tell you, you might opt to have a sonogram around 11-13 weeks. This is commonly referred to as the NT screening. It is optional and done at your request- so ask your doctor about it if you want it. They can check for birth defects like spinabifida and cleft pallet, etc. They can also take a VERY good guess at the sex of the baby! They knew Collin was a boy when I was only 12 weeks pregnant! Good luck sweetie! I hope the 2T gets here fast for you and that you continue to feel better!
ReplyDeleteThanks Wendy. Yes, the nausea is actually already starting to get better...I am in the middle of my 10th week (about 9 1/2 weeks right now), so I guess it's about that time :) I haven't really had morning nausea in about a week (accept like one day this week) and even the evening nausea is getting better (some days I don't have any, some days I do). Luckily I haven't actually gotten sick at all...yeah for that!!
ReplyDeleteThe burping isn't too bad accept at specific times, in other words, I don't suffer from it all the time, just sometimes. It's probably something that I'm eating...like I've noticed that one food that gets it going is Italian, so I've tried to avoid that...although, I did have an Italian dinner last weekend with Eddie and no burping (I was so happy).
I have heard from many moms that the 12th week is great for finding out the sex of the baby, unfortunately my next doctor's appointment is right at 10 weeks (and like a day...I have it on Monday), so I think it might be too soon for them to be able to tell (although some people have said they found out even sooner than 12 weeks). So, I guess I'll just have to wait and see. I am really anxious to know, though, but it's probably best that I don't know...I think it's helping to keep me away from shopping...so many baby things that I have already found (while "window" shopping) are gender specific, so the way I see it, if I don't know the sex of the baby, I can't buy those items :)