I just have to say that as excited as Matt and I both are about becoming parents, being pregnant has started to take a little bit of a toll on both of us. For instance, just this week I've added something new to my getting-ready-for-bed routine...for some reason I can no longer go to sleep for the night without throwing up first. It's really the strangest thing...but I've come to expect it, so it's fine. Along with that I can't smell, taste, or even think about eating anything without wanting to vomit (and sometimes actually doing it!). Which means that my poor husband has pretty much been left to fend for himself for the last several weeks when it comes to breakfast, lunch, dinner, and pretty much everything in between. Being a bit old fashioned, I really feel like I'm letting him down...it's my job as a wife to make sure that his tummy is always full. Luckily, Matt couldn't be more supportive, or empathetic. He's constantly telling me that it's okay that I can't do these things right now, that he just wants me to feel better. He picks up my half-eaten pieces of toast off the coffee table and asks what I need. He's not supposed to be picking up after me! But he does it without so much as a sigh, because he just wants me to feel better. And then when my raging hormones get the best of me, and I start crying out of the blue for reasons that neither of us can figure out, he tells me that it's okay to feel like this. That it's normal, and I'm not crazy! And he just wants me to feel better. However, we are both so thankful to have made it this far (11 1/2 weeks today!) and we know that each wave of nausea and each disgusting smell (that only I have the pleasure of smelling most of the time!) means that this wonderful miracle is growing more every minute. We are absolutely thrilled at the huge milestone that awaits us at the end of this week...our second trimester! We are both crossing our fingers and praying every night that we continue on this healthy road, and that my second trimester can tame the nauseous beast! But don't get me wrong...I love everything that is happening to me right now, and all the changes that I am going through I embrace with open arms. But maybe...maybe I could love them even more if I didn't have to throw up Ü
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The only things that I really ate during the first trimester were mac and cheese, cottage cheese w/fruit, apples/pears with cheese or graham crackers. Sure sounds like I'm from Wisconsin! Hang in there with the vomiting, etc. I never did have the pleasure of having vomit-fest, but I did get nauseous...esp. if I had an empty stomach. I feel your pain sister! I'd do it all over in a heartbeat! jess
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