This may come off a little whiny (ok, maybe a lot whiny!), but it has to be said. This pregnancy stuff is not for sissies! I am just now 9 weeks into my pregnancy. Still SUPER early along. But the last 4-6 weeks have been ROUGH.
First of all, I am EX.HAUSTED. Imagine when you're sick with the flu or something, and you just can't get your energy up. That's me. I wake up tired. And then I try and sleep or nap and it's impossible. I've never had such awful insomnia. I can't get comfortable. I'm hot. I'm restless. And even when I DO get comfy, I just plain can't sleep. It''s 4:40 pm now and I've actually been in my bed since about 1 pm trying to nap. As has been the case almost every time for the last few weeks, I barely started to drift off and was woken up. Most of the time it's something (or some ONE ;-)) who wakes me, but regardless of what or who it is... I cannot ever get back to sleep. :(
Then I spend the rest of the day just wishing I could sleep because I'm right at that point of "I can't function without some more sleep". It's not a great place to be in =/
And I'm hungry. Oh my gosh, am I hungry! But I'm not craving fresh veggies and diet cokes... Oh no! It's pizza and Doritos, Frosted Flakes, and Italian food. I even scrounged through my wallet yesterday to see what kind of money I had so that I could get chicken nuggets from McDonalds! And if you know anything about me, you know McDonalds *repulses* me! Luckily, my husband bought a 20 pack for the 3 of us to share.... because I polished off ten or more on my own! =/
And then of course when it comes to eating any food I actually have on hand, I literally gag.
My nausea has subsided a *little*... but I'm still popping ginger root more mornings than not just because of the constant feeling of motion sickness.
Unfortunately, these are not the biggest of my problems. My adrenal issues have really been in full force just because of everything ELSE that's going on with my body. So I get to go see an endocrinologist soon, too.
And of course, I'm not complaining just to complain. I'm grateful that my body is doing what it's supposed to be doing to grow a hopefully healthy baby. I know that I have to make adjustments as these things come, but mostly I'm just glad that everything seems to be going good with the baby. They say that every pregnancy is different. And considering I remember Abbie's being a cakewalk, that couldn't be more true!
Melissa
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