BUN in the OVEN
This post is all about my pregnancy experience from beginning till my ninth trimester.
Our pregnancy wasn't planned. My husband and I came home from our honeymoon, and decided that if it happens, then it happens. We decided to let it be in God's hands. Three months of being home from our honeymoon we were blessed with our sweet baby girl. I really had NO idea.
We had just sold our house late October, and were in a little bit of a crisis finding a new home. You don't even know how stressed I was. We moved literally two streets over to a bigger house to accommodate our dog, and if we were to start a family.
The weekend before we moved, I was feeling super weird and not myself. I was extremely emotional, SO BLOATED, and always hungry! I was working out EXTRA hard, cut back on caffeine (thinking it would take my bloating away) but turns out it was my little girl.
I felt a constant cramping over on my left side a week prior to us finding out. It was non stop cramping which lead to a little bit of discomfort. A week later all I did was cry and want to eat MR. SUB ( which was actually one of my favourite pregnancy meals) The weekend we were moving into our new house I knew something was not right. I felt a constant pressure and cramping that I decided to take a pregnancy test. My husband thought I was crazy and there was no way it had happened, so that morning I had to go back to our old house for some last things, when I decided I'll just take the test here no one needs to know.
I took the test in my old bathroom, all alone in that house and shock I felt I cannot even explain. I started to shake. I quickly had to tell someone so my cousin was the one person I told before my husband. I quickly facetimed her in disbelief and she said she KNEW I was from all my previous symptoms. I quickly had to drive back to tell my husband and couldn't think of a cute exciting way to tell him, I just had to blurt it out. I remember coming home and he was in the middle of putting a picture frame of our wedding up. I showed him the stick and he himself said there is NO way. That day I took another one to be sure and again it came up positive. Together alone in our brand new house, second night in we just couldn't thank God for such a beautiful blessing and a great way to start our new adventure in our new home.
The next day I decided to go to the dr, get blood work done and to find out the exciting thing about the babies "due date" July 11th as I was 4 weeks pregnant. Everything was so surreal and so new to me, calling an OB, learning about all these baby apps I can download, taking vitamins, what to eat, and what I cannot eat. It was an exciting new chapter.
I was feeling really good up until week 5 1/2 6 when the nausea started. I was working out, eating fine, great energy and then boom it hit me. I woke up on a Sunday morning feeling super tired, and really bad acid reflux. I have never had acid reflux before so to me this was all new. Acid reflux is very uncomfortable. After breakfast I had felt the nausea arise and all I could think of is this will pass I can get through it. Shortly after, I was sick from then on and could hardly keep ANYTHING down. I don't think I have ever thrown up as much as I did in 9 months from my entire 25 years of living. I would gag every morning, every afternoon, and sometimes every night. If my stomach was empty it would be even worse. I decided to go to the dr and see what was happening. I was told to have Hyperemesis Gravidaurm which is sever morning sickness. I couldn’t keep anything down which was making me loose weight rather than gain in this pregnancy. I would be up all night, being super nausea and super dizzy. The worse feeling of it all was when I would be super super hungry to the point I would throw up, and then when I ate I would just throw it up again. There would be times I would pull over to the side of the road while driving to throw up. My Dr had given me pills which would ease up the throwing up a little but for a good 6 months I was throwing up daily, along with lots of acid reflux which SUCKS. Around 7 months I finally started to feel better and got lots of energy! I was still working out despite the throwing up but around the seventh month I felt much better than I did. 8-9 months I was starting to get really tired and really heavy and just ready for this to come to an end and to finally meet our baby girl.
At the end of the day, pregnancy is such a blessing. No matter what it is all so worth it because you just think about that special day you get to hold your babe in your arms and the pain you felt really goes away <3
Tips to get over being sick, staying healthy and maintaining a happy pregnancy
HYDRATE! Remember to keep water, Gatorade, or orange juice by your side at all times! I found that when I drank something it would ease off the stomach pains, and of course if your throwing up you MUST stay hydrated, especially for your little babe in there!
SNACKS I was never a snack kind of person, but I had figured out that keeping a snack especially by my bed side really helped me with not feeling super nausea, and it helped me not get my body hungry which would lead to making me sick
WALK When times get really rough the last thing you want to do is get up off the couch but I found when I did a 15-20 min walk every day it really helped me physically and mentally! Because I was having it tough around the winter time and walking outdoors would be brutal I used the mall as my “walk area”
FIND A GOOD TV SHOW! One thing about me is I really do not like watching TV! However this pregnancy has changed my perspective on that and I would watch a BUNCH of tv series! (THIS IS US, ONE DAY AT A TIME, FRIENDS, JANE THE VIRIGN)
TALK TO SOMEONE This was my favourite thing to do… as I was very lucky my cousin was pregnant the exact same time as me so she really was my rock. I would talk to her day and night!
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES I found the healthier I ate the better I felt!
Hope this gives some of you mama some hope!
XO Stephanie
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