Week 15 recap

It’s been another interesting week.  I had my doctor’s appointment on Jan 18, and unfortunately I lost another 1-1/2 pounds.  Bringing my total weight loss to 17-1/2 pounds.  I felt like a baby when I stepped on the scale at my doctors only to find out that I lost more weight and starting balling my eyes out, pregnancy hormones! Thankfully my OB/GYN is giving me another week to try and gain some weight; I have my appointment tomorrow, so we are keeping our fingers crossed. If I cannot gain weight I’ll be hooked up to home IV’s by the end of the week, which sounds awful!

Other pregnancy symptoms for the week.  The heartburn has been out of control; anything I eat seems to give me heartburn. This week I also started with a stuffy nose, my body is producing crazy amounts of mucus, and getting a bloody nose from blowing so much.  I have also been ridiculously and unreasonably emotional, I cry at the drop of a hat, my poor, poor husband. The round ligament pains are starting to get a little annoying, ever time I cough or sneeze it really hurts.  Is it normal to sneeze 50 times a day while pregnant? I sneeze ALL OF THE TIME, for no apparent reason. I very rarely sneezed before I got pregnant, and it was only when I walked out into the sun or was in a dusty room.  Due to the increase in blood I’ve been getting a lot of headaches, I missed two days of work last week, the combination of nausea and headache made me not get out of bed.  On a good note, the awful metallic taste is getting better; I only woke up with it 2 or 3 times last week.

My belly is getting a little bigger each week; people are starting to notice it. :) I’m am wearing my “fat jeans” a size 6 which are to big so I have to wear a soft belt.  My regular jeans fit but are just a bit to tight around my belly now, so I have put them away until after baby Richards gets here.  I hope that I be able to fit into them again. All the weight that I have lost has been in my legs, butt, shoulders, and arms, however my chest and belly just keep growing.  I really need to get to a store to get a new bra but the thought of having to go shopping is an awful one.  Thanks to the Hyperemisis and bed rest my muscles are so weak that I can’t stand or walk for more than a few minutes.  Each week I’m losing more and more of my strength, this week flushing the toilet has become hard.  On Friday I stayed home from work and Keith left me with a few bottles of vitamin water to drink during the day, the only problem was he didn’t open them for me and I couldn’t do it be myself.  It’s pretty frustrating.

Baby update:  Well I keep waiting to feel those first little movements, but nothing yet. The baby is around 4to 4-1/2 inches long and weighs around 3 ounces right now. According to all of my books that baby can now sense light and dark, they suggest putting a flashlight against your belly.  I plan on trying that this week, maybe I’ll get some movement. :)    

Week 14...Doctors visit.

14 weeks!  It’s hard to believe that I’ve been sick for over two months now; I’ve lost a total of 16 pounds so far.  As I looked in the mirror yesterday and saw how skinny I’m getting.  I can’t believe that for most of my life I weighed less than 100 pounds, my poor parents… I thought I looked good but I must have been nothing but a sack of bones. I weigh 15 more pounds then when Keith and I started dating 5 years right now, and I can see almost ever rib and have chicken legs. I wonder what he found to be so attractive about me. Haha.

Well this has been another week that I have spent the majority of my time in bed.  I had an OBG/YN appointment on Tuesday, Jan 11^th, where I had to step on the dreaded scale. I hate scales, especially when they read that I have lost another 5-1/2 pounds since my last appointment less then 3 weeks earlier. I took my Mom with me for moral support and so that she could hear the baby’s heartbeat, which was the best idea I had all day.  It was nice to have someone with me and her face was priceless when she heard the baby.  My doctor is growing more and more concerned with my condition and weight loss, she has given me 1 week, until Jan 18^th, to gain at least 1 pound.  Mommy took me to get a chocolate milkshake after my appointment, and I kept it down!  The doctor also doubled the prescription for my anti-nausea meds as well as giving me an additional medication, I’ve been taking them for the last few days and I’m not sure if they are helping…. all I can feel are the side effects, dizziness and fatigue.  Yesterday I was home from work by 11:30 and slept until 6:15 this morning. To be awake and sick or to be asleep and oblivious….

Baby Update: Baby Richards is now the size of a “lemon”! He or she is measuring between 3-1/2 and 4 inches and weights around 2 ounces. A few of this week’s big developments are that the baby can now squint, frown, grimace, pee, and possibly suck his/her thumb!  The baby is also starting to develop an ultra-fine, downy covering of hair, called lanugo, all over their little body.  They doctor said that I may begin to feel the baby in the next 3-4 weeks! So exciting! I included a picture of what the baby looks like right now, as soon as I start to feel a little better I’ll start to take weekly baby belly shots.

Week 13!!! Ultrasound :)

We are at the end on the first trimester!!! Just half of a week to go, it’s hard to believe that we are already a third of the way through the pregnancy.

This week has been pretty exciting.  Monday we went into Mercy Hospital to have your very first ultrasound done of the baby.  I was so nervous beforehand; I couldn’t sleep Sunday night and was extremely sick all day Monday.  I threw up a few minutes before we had to leave for our appointment and laid down the whole way to the hospital.  Praise God, that in spite of all of my worries, the baby looks very healthy! It was so amazing to see our little baby moving around, he or she looks quite comfy.   Keith was completely mesmerized by the tiny little person dancing around on the screen; he had the most incredible smile on his face. Seeing my baby and my husband so happy almost mad me forget how deathly ill I’ve been.

Mommy Update: This week the nausea seems to be getting worse, I don’t think that the medication is working anymore.  I haven’t been able to keep down dinner all week and nights that I don’t feel up to eating I still end up throwing up any of the liquids I’ve been able to get down. After I had a few brutal vomiting episodes at work during the beginning of the week, my father has cut my hours at work in half. Although I know in my heart that this is a blessing, it’s hard for me to give up working.  Physically I’m not able to work 40 hours anymore, I just am getting sicker and sicker.  Hopefully, if I catch up on my rest I’ll start to feel better soon, and maybe I’ll even be able to gain a pound or two instead of the most recent tread of the pounds that are falling off my body.  I so had wished that I would be the cute pregnant lady with the adorable belly and beautiful glow…. but no I’m the one that looks ghostly pale with green undertones, cracked lips from being dehydrated, and sunk eyes with purple rings around them. I don’t think I’ll be on the cover of “Pregnancy Magazine” anytime soon.  The heartburn is still plaguing me and I have discovered that I really dislike chalky Tubs.  One of the recent weird pregnancy side effects is a metallic taste in my mouth, ALL OF THE TIME!!! No matter what I do I can’t get it to go away, I have tried brushing my teeth, chewing gum, sucking on mints…nothing is working.  It’s very annoying.    

Baby update: The baby is continuing to grow and the books are now comparing him or her to the size of a med/large shrimp. Why do they always compare the baby’s size to food? I find it very strange. Along with the organs growing stronger, the baby now has their own distinct fingerprints!