I would like to introduce the world to our baby Lime. I am officially 11 weeks pregnant with a baby, about the size of a Lime! Most everyone probably suspected it, or knew it, but I tried my hardest to keep it a secret. Its hard to keep a secret when you are puking all the time and just feel like crap, plus I wore these most of the time to make the nausea go away (not very discreet).
I always carry a bag of snacks with me at all time, usually containing Blue Diamond Almond Nut-Thins Hint of Salt flavor, my water bottle, a Capri sun or Propel (both kiwi-strawberry flavor), some kind of rice cake, a couple bags of fruit snacks, big red gum and pink wintergreen mints (my mom said that she would swear by these when she was pregnant). Most people said that if they just keep eating throughout the whole day they would feel fine, for me it didn’t matter, I threw up if I ate or if I didn’t eat. Our Dr. told Megan to take Zyrtec (the allergy medication) To make her nausea go away and she swore by it, so she had me to try it, I honestly don’t know if the Zyrtec and my bracelets helped at all because I still got sick, but I still continue to use them because if they are working I wouldn’t want to see what happened without them. My morning sickness started around 4 ½ weeks and was really bad until I was 8 weeks. At 8 weeks it slowed down a little and I was only throwing up a few times a week instead of a few times a day. After the morning sickness slowed down the pregnancy fatigue set in. I am generally just a tired person, but there is no way to explain how tired you get when there is a baby growing inside of you. This isn’t supposed to be a complaining blog, just letting everyone know how I have been, I have been keeping away from blogging and updating my facebook too much because there isn’t too much going on that doesn’t revolve around this baby!
Being pregnant and having Celiac Disease is really not fun at all. There isn’t a lot of choices of things to eat anyways and sometimes I just want a sandwich from kneaders, but right now is definitely not a good time to deprive my body of nutrients, I want this baby to be as healthy as I can.
I had my 10 week appointment on Monday. I was super nervous for it, I actually cried and threw up on the drive to the dr. Everything went great. They found the baby’s heartbeat really fast with the Doppler machine, it was 163 beats per min! The Dr said that everything looks great and everything is right on track! I wish I had a ultra sound picture or something to show you, but we will just have to wait.
