I've started to have a little but of morning sickness this week. No vomiting, just nausea. It seems pretty manageable most of the time but can make it difficult to eat sometimes. The worst part is that if I get hungry, I get nauseated and can't eat so I get even more nauseated. I just try not to let myself get hungry.
In my first trimester, I lost 14 pounds. The doctor said that some loss can be completely normal in the first trimester and not to be too worried unless I keep losing weight through my second trimester. I've been trying to take in more calories per day but I'm finding it really hard to do. I've started by trying to add calories to everything that I do eat but I'm not sure if I've gained anything yet.
I've been having some cramping the last few days. It was pretty persistent the day before yesterday and then tapered off. The pain wasn't too bad so I didn't know if I should call anybody. There was no bleeding so I decided not to and just to bring it up at my next appointment. It was a different kind of pain that radiated from my lower abdomen to my vagina. When I googled it, that's the same way that a lot of people described the way contractions feel. I imagine that it would be normal to have some uterine pain at this point as it's expanding but I keep wondering if the kind of pain is normal.
When I don't have problems sleeping, I wake up to some weird dream; usually more like a nightmare. I've heard that strange dreams are completely normal during pregnancy but I wish my brain would leave my husband out of it. I love him and I hate waking up mad because the dreams felt so real! Sometimes I wake up every hour or so and have to change position a little bit and I have to admit that I feel like a little bit of a bad person for sleeping on my back for a small portion of the night. Everything that I've read says that sleeping on your back or even lying on your back for an extended period of time can cause issues with circulation to the fetus. I asked my husband for a pregnancy or body pillow for Christmas.
I went shopping yesterday and decided that I would check out some really cute sports bras that were on sale for super cheap. I grabbed the largest size that they had in a few different colors (almost knowing already that they wouldn't fit me) and then grabbed some other bras in the stores largest sizes to try on with them. Not one of them fit. I'm thinking that now I'm going to have to go to some super expensive specialty store to get a bra and I'm pretty pissed about it. I'm dreading finding out what cup size I am now since I was a DDD (or E) before pregnancy. None of my bras fit anymore so I've been almost exclusively relying on tank tops with shelves in them and one bra that is old and stretched to fit me (even though it's nowhere near the right size).
Other than the above complaints and being teary eyed at everything, pregnancy has been pretty good to me. I haven't had morning sickness to the point of vomiting and that's a big positive. I'm even thinking about going back to work for a while.
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