Nausea… or not?
I don’t want to jinx myself, but my nausea has been a lot easier to manage the last few days. I notice some things really set it off, like eating too much (oh that is bad), milk (damnit), and salads (WTF?). But I’ve been getting through entire days without feeling much nausea at all… without throwing up, without gagging. It does start to creep up on me in the evenings, but it’s manageable… not like that hellish wall of ugliness that was hitting me two weeks ago all day long.
I could be way off base here, but I think my body is adjusting to the hormones a lot quicker than it did last time. It all hit me at once, with every symptom on the face of the earth, my body aching in the old familiar spots. Those aches and pains disappeared after about a week, but the nausea stood strong. Now I feel like that is settling down, too. It’s like my body flipped full-out into pregnancy mode, but is settling down nicely… where as the first time it took a while for it all to creep up but it just dragged on and took time to fall into a new rhythm. If this is the case I’m pretty happy about it.
Actually now that I think about it I’ve been having a lot more food aversions…. like, almost everything. I took this one frozen meal to work last week intending to eat it for lunch, then when lunch came the thought of eating it made me gag… I got Subway instead. It’s kind of weird to me, because last pregnancy I don’t really recall any aversions. There were foods that made me barf and foods that didn’t, but I never knew what they were going to be until after I experienced it. I don’t know if this is an early warning system or if my stomach is just being petty.
Of course the next two days will be the test for me…. Mondays and Tuesdays have been the worst days for nausea. Maybe baby just doesn’t like that job?
That all sounds good … I noticed you’re nearly 9 weeks pregnant, wow. FWIW, I spent the first three months of my pregnancy not wanting to eat anything at all. I used to enjoy a McChicken meal at McDonald’s every now and again, but everything else I had to force down.
Here’s hoping today and Tuesday go well for you.
Nat, it sounds like you had much more prolonged nausea with the earlier pregnancy, but it’s actually pretty normal for the nausea to start tapering off at this point. By 10 weeks approximately, your hormone levels (HCG) start actually decreasing, which is what really fully kills nausea in most people (which is why it’s a “1st trimester” thing. But I know a lot of people who claimed it started to improve by 8 weeks-ish, which suggests that the levels are definitely stable and maybe evn starting to taper off a little. Which is all normal!
I do hope this is your reprieve!
Almost there (through the 1st tri I mean) – woohoo!!!!!
I’m not like the other girls, my morning sickness is at its worst from weeks 10-13. I hope you get a break though. I think my food aversions got worse with each pregnancy, with my pregnant with Patrick being horrid. And it wasn’t ever consistent either. Some foods that I hated one day would be okay the next. I couldn’t ever predict it.
I’m glad it seems to be lightening up for you! You deserve an easy pregnancy.
Go for the wicked expensive diaper bag–you will be using it all the time. Glad you are feeling a little better.
Fingers crossed that the settling-in continues and your tummy treats you well from now on! And I’m glad you had such a lovely day off Saturday. I’m all for anything that pampers you right now. Hope the new heating system is keeping you toasty warm.
Frozen dinners did NOT do it for me. To this day I still can’t eat them.
Oooo, that’s a rough one, J. I’ve found a couple I like, and they’re kind of my go-tos when I can’t find anything else appetizing.
I used to love Lean Cuisines. :( The only frozen ones I can really eat are frozen pizzas.
Holy crap…are you 9 weeks already! woo hoo!