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Nothing Exciting
I have started experiencing worse nausea in the last week (about the same time I started telling everyone that morning sickness had passed me by!), but I think I may have figured out one of my triggers. It occurred to me last night in bed that I had no serious nausea all day and that I was not having any at the moment - late night seems to be the worst for me - and it occurred to me that my diet was different yesterday. I had not had any high fat meats. Each of the two preceding days, I had had some sort of beef for dinner, both nights from restaurants, so they presumably were not the leanest cuts. Each of those nights, I had terrible nausea. Yesterday, however, I had a grilled chicken breast sandwich at lunch and pasta with mushrooms at dinner, and then I had no nausea. And I'm fairly certain it's the meat itself, not just fat in general, because my chicken sandwich had cheese on it, and we had made the pasta with a white sauce, so I think it is probably the meat itself. I'm going to experiment over the next couple of days and see what happens, though I'll be very upset if I have to remove red meat from my diet for awhile! :) Still, hopefully this nausea will be short lived and I'll be able to eat red meat again in just a few weeks. At the very least, my nausea has yet to lead to any vomiting, so I can't complain too much. (Maybe I should keep my mouth shut about that...look what God did to me when I said I hadn't had any nausea yet!)
Nate and I played with the stroller a bit more today and finally figured out how to close it. It turns out it really is quite easy - it's just the instruction manual that is confusing (I suppose we should get used to that, eh?). So now we've got the thing all figured out, and we just want to keep playing with it frequently so that by the time Baby Trela arrives, we'll be able to do everything in a snap. No fiddling with trying to remember how to do stuff while in a sleep-deprived haze!
Well, I think that's about all there is to report. It could be a long week, so I'm not entirely sure when I'll write again. Of course, I could still update regularly just as a respite from all the work! Until later...
Quite a Scare
I was having some symptoms of a possible urinary tract infection, so they had me do a urinalysis, but it was negative. So they just chalked the spotting up to "normal pregnancy stuff." (That's literally an exact quote - I would have liked to have heard something a bit more specific.) I really wish they had ordered an ultrasound just to make sure everything is OK, but they seem fairly unconcerned. Still, if it happens again in the next few days, I plan on insisting. I'd just feel so much better if they could give me a specific reason for the bleeding (irritated cervix, pocket of blood behind the placenta, etc.), or if I could even see that beating little heart again. But for the time being, I guess all I can do is try to relax...stress is just as bad for the baby as anything else!
Talk About a Pregnant Brain! (Part I)
The nurse was generally very nice, but she said one other thing that made me angry. She asked if I'd had any cramping, and I said not in a few weeks, but I did describe to her the mild lower abdominal pain I had been experiencing. I mentioned this just to make sure it was a normal pain, although I suppose I didn't make that explicit, and her response was (said very sternly), "Well, there is going to be some pain involved in pregnancy. It is certainly not going to be a pain-free experience." That made me really mad, but I bit my tongue. Did I ever say I thought it was going to be pain free?? Give me a break. I mentioned it just to be sure it was normal and not a bad sign! Oh well, like I said she was generally very nice, that little exchange just really irritated me.
The cool part of the visit was that I got a huge goodie bag. It was filled with lots of informational booklets and coupons and even some free samples, including several vanilla-flavored pre-natal vitamins! If it weren't for the fact that I can buy generic pre-natals much cheaper, I'd totally get a prescription for those. I can only tolerate the generics with a big glass of OJ - they are gigantic and taste awful.
OK, now that I've caught things up, back to the present. I spotted a tiny bit more last night, but this time it was brown, so I didn't freak out again. I did call the doctor's today just to be sure, but they said not to worry about it since it was brown. I just hope that was the end of it! I can't stand that kind of stress...
I swear that I had one other thing I wanted to add to this entry, but either my pregnant brain has already forgotten it, or my pregnant brain is creating false memories. :) Oh well, if I remember what it was, I'll come edit. If not, I'll check back in in a couple days. Bye!