Sunday, November 27, 2011

A cheese-gut is cute...right?

Bad blogger checkin' in!

Man, it's going to be great/terrible when Tommy gets a job and has to leave me every day.  I honestly don't know how I'll do it.  I've been beyond useless the last few weeks.  Really, the worst it's ever been.  If I can manage to "only" throw up once or twice in a day, I consider it a huge success, even if I pass out for 2 hours on the sofa.  And then fall asleep at 8:24 p.m. for the evening.

And forget any kitchen chores.  The stench that emanates from every appliance and surface in that room is enough to get me running for the bathroom.

And y'all, I've done this 4 other times before.  It has never, ever been this atrocious.

BUT...things have gotten a lot better in the last few days.  Yay!  Better! Thanks to my friend E. from UD, I have totally restricted my diet and in doing so have managed to actually participate in Thanksgiving activities, such as eating.  And sitting around.  Wait a second, this might not be an improvement after all.......

Seriously though, she sent me this pamphlet called Managing Morning Sickness by Marilyn Shannon.  I had to COMPLETELY cut out all sugar, both fructose and sucrose as well as any caffeine, even the tiniest amounts.
Then I upped my protein intake by, like, 260%.  At least.

Oh, oh, oh....it turns out that naturally low blood pressure, which I have, can also result in feeling super ill during pregnancy.  Why am I only just now learning this?  She actually encourages those of us 100/60 gals to increase our salt intake which can help get our blood pressure to normal levels and get us feeling better sooner.  So add salt to those nuts, baby!

I'm not joking folks- I eat cheese and yogurt and almonds All. Day. Long.  And the only liquid I can drink (not as per the diet, as per my own trial and error and this very picky baby) is milk.  True story.

Y'all, if you're imagining that this new found eating schedule has resulted in me being slim and trim, you are sorely, sorely mistaken.

I'm a blimpie blimp already, what can I say.  And at just 10 weeks and 2 days, that ain't no baby there, no sirree bob.  Of course, this would be an awesome time time to insert photo of chub, but since I don't want to make anyone's eyes bleed (I'm kind like that), I'll show you this instead:


An unexpected snow weeks before Thanksgiving had the kids enjoying their first snow day in November.  It all melted the next day but it really was a fun day for everyone.  Living in a place with four real seasons is never boring!

Oh man, I promised I wouldn't talk about the yuck anymore, and there I went and just did it again.  I'm sorry, really and truly sorry.  Give me another chance.  I promise I'll be good!
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27 comments :

  1. LOL! I feel your pain, I really do. I put a nice picture of me up with my first--ha! That slim figure is long gone. As for me, the only thing I want to eat is carbs and more carbs. Cheerios are the only thing that seem to calm my stomach. Sad, but true story.

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  2. I hate being pregnant. LOL And I'm glad to hear that you are blimpy! Cuz I am too! :) This is going to be the longest 7 months ever.

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  3. Your baby is going to come out and be like, "I've been subsisting on cheese for the past 9 months, GIVE ME MORE CHEESE!"

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  4. I felt the same way about this pregnancy - like, why is this not easy like it was the first time? Then I remembered no, it wasn't easy the first time either! Just a couple of weeks less puking.

    It'd get better, just a few more weeks and you'll be over the line to the blessed 2nd trimester!

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  5. I'm on my fourth pregnancy and while the last one was totally terrible in the morning sick realm, THIS is the tired all the time and sick because of being tired pregnancy.

    I'm getting nothing much done.

    But at 26 weeks, we are getting closer to being tired from lack of sleep instead of just tired. :)

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  6. And tired from lack of sleep is something we're already used to, right? ;) Plus, we get to see those precious faces....

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  7. I have the low blood pressure/eat salt as well, which is kinda awesome to get to add chips to your pregnancy diet. But milk (shudder) would make me violently hurl during both my pregnancies.... Hope you feel better soon! Tracy

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  8. Yep, I have chronic low blood pressure--even when I'm pregnant my high number is usually at 100 or 110. So yay for salt! Seriously, with my fourth pregnancy all I could tolerate for the first few weeks were kettle chips. Delicious, salty kettle chips. And orange juice.

    And my sickness always hit in the afternoon, and I actually took naps. I never nap. Hate napping. So I hear you. Hopefully once you're through the first trimester it will get easier!

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  9. Extreme morning sickness can be a sign of twins!!!
    Emily C

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  10. I have very low blood pressure and wish someone had given me that advice when I was having morning sickness! Oh well, I guess I know for next time!

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  11. Ha! I'm ALSO in the "low blood pressure" club. So much so, that I usually stop at Starbuck's before I go to an OB appointment, hoping that the caffeine will elevate my BP enough that they don't try and send me to the hospital. Does it even work like that? Or is this just an excuse to drink salted caramel lattes once a month?

    I am ALSO a giant blob, and 18 weeks in, have only a baby the size of a bell pepper to show for it. But unless that bell pepper is now living in the midsection of my back, I've got no one to blame but myself for the giant love handles I've acquired.

    It's ok. We'll all start an online round of P90X when we're done and look fab and fierce at the end of this crappy thing called gestation.

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  12. I'm SO glad to hear you're feeling better!! I hope it stays that way :)

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  13. You just go right ahead and talk about the yuck! You make it funny, which makes it fun to read.

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  14. Oh Paula, I'm glad I managed to still eek out the entertainment. I'm so afraid I'm turning into a wah-wah downer lady!

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  15. I did NOT know that about low blood pressure making morning sickness worse! That could explain a lot for me! You eat that salt and drink that milk, dear, and write about morning sickness as much as you want!

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  16. Oh, that sounds miserable. I know there is a huge prize at the end, but it still sounds awful. I'm glad you're starting to feel better.

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  17. Poor thing! You can't do ginger tea to soothe your nausea?

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  18. Sigh. No. I wish! I do love fresh ginger, but it just won't stay down. Totally lame, right?

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  19. Wow, you sound like me. I gained like crazy when I was pregnant because eating was the only thing that took the edge off the nausea.

    A friend of mine who is also newly pregnant discovered pressure-point wrist bands last week and she said they were like *magic* for her nausea. I think she got them at Walgreens.

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  20. I had no idea about the low blood pressure thing! I have that big time! AND, I totally crave salty foods during my 1st trimester in every pregnancy, so it's good to know Nature picks up on it and tries to correct it. I do know that my sister and I usually ask to stand to have our BP taken so that it doesn't alarm them too much. Opposite of people with high BP who can reduce their number a little by lying down when the reading is taken. Glad you figured out a BUNCH of things, Dweej, and are feeling a teeny bit better! Also, I was thinking the twin-thing about you, too! ;-)

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  21. I almost hope it's twins so that I'll have a reason for being such a baby other than "I am just getting super old." Sadly, no twins anywhere on either side of anyone's family. Such a tragedy!

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  22. O my gosh I'm sorry you're feeling so awful but very glad you got to eat Thanksgiving dinner. I don't know how you cut out sugar but if it helps, they YAY!


    Jamie
    For Love of Cupcakes

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  23. It's been hard...but being sick is harder, so I've been able to resist! I did eat one bite of cranberry sauce and then a bite of pie later, but made sure to surround those bites with lots of protein and carbs and salt :)

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  24. O my, I am so sorry! I WISH I could stop eating. I'd finally managed to drop 40 lbs and SURPRISE!

    Here's to hoping you feel better and like Cari said, we'll hand our bodies over to Tony Horton after our wee ones finish nursing and tear it up!

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  25. I'm so sorry you feel sick. Glad it's getting better. I puked 24 hours a day for 9 months. Longest 9 months of my life!I would wake up every hour or so to vomit. It was awful! The good news is, it's only a few more months ;)

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  26. Oh that sounds exactly how I was with Bella, my first. None of the others has been as bad as that one was. I couldn't even open the refrigerator without needing to run for the bathroom. I'm hitting myself for not thinking of the Managing Morning Sickness book myself. That thing was a lifesaver for me; but I totally forgot I own it. I suspect that one reason my subsequent pregnancies haven't been as bad is because with that book I learned to cut out sugar and limit carbs and amp up my protein intake.

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  27. I have the low bp too. Sometimes 90/60. On bad days it leaves me feeling funky and I'm not even preggo.

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