Pregnancy - Part 2 (1st trimester)

Part 2

Around week 5 the nausea & sickness started.  With Jack's pregnancy I was working and had nausea and would occasionally get sick.  I took medication and completely remember being miserable.

This pregnancy took it to a whole new level.  Everyone goes through the first trimester stuff & so many people have it much worse than I did.  I know so many people that have a hard time & I was no different...it was a miserable few months.  It was nausea 24/7 and getting sick daily.  On top of that it was a really rough December and January.  I literally felt depressed & convinced myself it was because of the hormones, but I think it was a combination of a lot of things.  Mainly the sickness & constant nausea, but it was also winter in Nashville where it gets dark at around 4:30 and Tyler was working a lot of nights, which meant our schedule was all kinds of messed up.  Jack and I were often locked in our "tv room" for hours on end when we were at the house in the afternoons/evenings. 

I'm not happy about the amount of tv that Jack watched 1st trimester, but it helped me make it through and luckily we were still able to get out of the house enough to go to the library, gymboree, and play dates (I just had to make quick trips to the bathroom).

To make it even harder, Tyler & I decided to tell our families on Christmas morning.  This sounded like such a great plan to me, but it also put us waiting until WEEK 8 to tell our parents.  I barely wanted to talk to my mom because she would know something was going on with me & it was very hard to not be able to talk to her about it.  And I didn't have my first doctor appointment until week 10 and there is so much unknown during that timeframe!

It was worth it to see everyone's faces Christmas morning when we surprised them, though!

I had planned on staying extra time in Dallas when Tyler was working & I made sure that it was after Christmas so that they would know at that point.  And thank goodness they knew because I did a lot of sleeping on their couch while they took care of Jack for me :)

The nausea finally started decreasing & went away around week 15 or 16.  Along with the nausea the "dark feelings" also went away (thank goodness!).  I was so happy to see second trimester!  Of course, the whole time I knew that it is worth it for the person growing inside of me and I wouldn't trade it for the world.  But sometimes I wish the men in our lives could spend a day in a pregnant woman's body just to see what it feels like :)