I was so exhausted.

At my 8 week visit, they gave me my Zofran, and told me to try adding B6 vitamins.  The problem… The only B6 tabs I could find were 100mg, and I was only suppose to take 25mg.  Grrrrr!  Found some online later, but I wanted them right away, not wait 3-5 days for shipping.  I also got some sea-bands to help.

I didn’t really see any improvement.

Anyone who has had babies knows that you will most likely get sick for a few weeks, at most.  But in my first 3 pregnancies, it was pretty routine… First thing in the morning, then maybe in the afternoon.  But there really wasn’t a lot of nausea involved.  It would kinda just happen.

So why was EVERYTHING making me sick?  Brushing my teeth, drinking, eating, walking, driving the car, laying perfectly still in bed?  Seriously?  Getting up at 2 and 4AM to get sick?  Really?

I knew something was wrong.

It didn’t help much that we had plans to be at Cedar Point around the 8 week mark.  I’d only just begun to tell my co-workers, and I was going for a work event.  Obviously, I wasn’t going on rides.  However I did take my 7 year old daughter to the kids areas.  I got sick just watching her – several times in fact.  I’m sure that staff at Cedar Point is familiar with people getting sick, but I’d assume they were not the spectators…

That day was the first day when the so-called “morning sickness” really became more than a nuisance.

It was at the 8 week point when my appetite completely disappeared.  And drinking anything – yea right.

The only thing I was able to keep down were the shakes I got everyday at New-Trition, and it took me a long time to finish the 16oz shakes.   I honestly don’t know what I would have done without them.  Usually I was more of a berry shake kinda person, but the only shakes that tasted good, and stayed down, is a shake called Monster Cookie.

Called the doctor.. going back at 10 weeks instead of 12…

My kids are back in school now.  The minute the get on the bus, I’m on the couch trying to get some rest before I go to work in an hour.  But mostly I spend it getting sick.

Up until this week, I’d just been really tired.  But now, I’m getting sick.  First thing in the morning.  Then again a couple of hours later.  And then again, and again.  Even woke up a few times in the middle of the night, just to get sick.  I don’t know which is worse: loosing your lunch, or spitting up bile.

Crackers and Ginger Ale, they say.  It will make you feel better.

Yea, maybe when you have the flu.

Usually, I love Canada Dry Ginger Ale.  It’s always been a favorite, sick or not.  But after that first time you get sick after drinking it… it’s enough to make you not want to even look at it.

It’s summer still, the weather is still pretty warm, but I tried making soup.  Ahhh, no.

This is normal though, I should be sick for a week or 2, then it will be gone and I can enjoy the rest of my pregnancy.

Thinking back to my first 3, I was sick with Samantha during the 10th/11th week.  It was exam week.  I was graduating on Saturday, and we were saying our final goodbyes to Steve’s Grandma Lucy on Sunday.  It was a bad time to be sick, but I wasn’t that sick.

With Emmalee, I honestly didn’t know I was pregnant with her until I was 12 weeks, there was no morning sickness.

With Steven, I did have about 2 weeks of being sick around the 8 week mark, but it was really just in the morning.

So this should pass soon… but why does it feel so different this time?