Sea Bands and Meds

I must be messed up or something. Last night I went to Walgreens to pick up my prescription of nausea meds. While there I also picked up some Sea Bands. Sea Bands are a natural form of anti-nausea treatment. The way it works is with pressure points. The product is two fabric wrist bands with button things that when placed correctly rest on a certain pressure point on your wrist that will combat nausea. Supposedly it is supposed to work well with motion sickness and morning sickness. Well there must be something wrong with me. I tried wearing them last night and did not feel well. I wore them while at the mall and ended up needing to stop for preggie pops to make it the remainder of the way to my car.

This morning I woke up and put them on as I got out of bed. A few minutes after putting them on and I began to feel nauseous, so I took them off and began to feel better. Who knows, maybe they just don't work with me.

On the other hand I took one of my nausea pills today (they say on the bottle take one pill three times daily as needed for nausea), I took it in the morning and felt great till about lunch time, then I combatted my nausea the way I usually fight it and so far have been able to make it the rest of the day without another pill. I am hesitant about taking drugs while I am pregnant and even though these have been prescribed by my fertility doctor I still want to be careful with them.

In the meantime I have been on the hunt for large focal pendants. Mostly of the donut or teardrop variety and all in Jade. I want to make a few nursing focus necklaces, as I have seen a few online and am interested in the idea. The premise is to have a sturdy necklace with a large pendant that a baby can focus on and play with as they nurse. I am thinking serioiusly about creating a few and seeing if I can sell some online. Let me know what you think about the idea.

Amusing interactions

Today I had quite a few amusing interactions with different people and I wanted to share them.

Setting: Phone call from Kevin
Me: Hello?
Kevin: Maple Meeper.
Me: Yes, I know, I remembered.
Kevin: Maple Meeper?
Me: Yep, I have it with me and have written out the check.
Kevin: Maple Meeper!
Me: Yep, love you bye.

As a background for this, we have a bill for our storage location which is with Maple Storage. I needed to get a check in the mail to them this week for the rent. Kevin was supposed to remind me about it today before I left for work, but he was sleeping so I reminded myself.


As a lead up to the next one, I have a habit which I have actually picked up from Fae, I tend to look up at the ceiling at random times, often to see if there are any creepy crawlies up there. This habit confuses Kevin and he has often asked me what I am looking at.

Setting: Phone call from me to Kevin
Kevin: Hello?
Me: Hey, you know how you always ask me why I am looking up at the ceiling?
Kevin: Yea...
Me: Well I have a good answer for it.
Kevin: Ok...
Me: Ninjas, you never know when one might be up there!
Kevin: (chuckling) That is pretty good. Is that it?
Me: Yep, that and I wanted to say I love you
Kevin: Ok, love you, bye.
Me: Bye


And by far the best interaction of the day...

Setting: Walking through the mall on my way from one end to the other end, Lotion Booth Guy (LBG) notices me.
LBG: Hi ma'am, can I interest you in...
Me: Hi, I'm sorry but I am pregnant and dealing with morning sickness, if I have any scents near me I may throw up, it is probably best that I keep moving.
LBG: (Suddenly looking not so sure about me) Ahhh, yea that is probably best, have a great evening.
Me: You too.


And lastly, something Kevin said when he got home while I was waiting for my shot.

"Society is based principally and primarily upon the fear of pregnant women."
-Kevin

Nausea Meds

Yesterday was good in regards to vomiting, none happened, but I felt sick most of the day. This past weekend was so bad that I finally broke down this morning and called the fertility clinic and asked them to give me nausea meds. So when work is over I can go to my local Walgreens and pick up some nausea meds. I am so happy about that. It will be nice to have a little bit of a break from all of this.

This Thursday is my next and last appointment with the fertility clinic, and this weekend shoud be the end to my progesterone shots. That will be nice.

It is kind of funny, for Christmas last year Kevin's mom sent me an Anne Geddes calendar, which as you might know is full of babies as that is what she photographs. She said it was in hope that something might happen this year. I have used it as my work calendar and I have to say that it is very fitting. Especially since I use it for writing down all my doctor appointments so that my managers and my co-workers know where I am on any given day.

So, yay for meds, yay for shots ending soon!

Not such a fun day

Not so much fun, this post discusses my troubles with vomiting, if you would rather not read then do not click on link.

Hot Cocoa

Today I entered my work breakroom and smelled cocoa. And having smelled it I realized that I wanted some. So I had a cup, and then another cup and then another cup. In total I think I have had about 4 cups of hot cocoa today. Great thing about it is that I have not felt nauseous much at all today. Not that I plan on drinking four cups of cocoa every day, but maybe a cup a day would be nice. I guess the baby likes cocoa.

Last night I stopped by the mall and visited the maternity store there. I picked up some shirts because I really don't have many casual shirts that work with my maternity jeans for casual Fridays at work. While there I noticed "Preggie Pops" supposedly a natural way of releaving morning sickness. They come in 7 flavors: Peppermint, Spearmint, Lavender, Ginger, Sour Lemon, Sour Tangerine, and Sour Raspberry. Today I tried the Sour Lemon. Interesting. They are suckers that are flavored to help with morning sickness. I don't know how well the others will work, and the lemon one only lasted so long before I was done with it. I think I might stick with gum. It's cheaper than the suckers anyway.

Kevin's problems with his car/driving is all taken care of now so he is finally returning to his commute life of driving to and from work. For those of you who have been missing us at church this also means that you will see us this Sunday. The last two weekends we have been stuck in Rochelle and thus have not been able to attend our own ward/congregation. It also takes the stress of the situation off of my shoulders.

Kevin called me today from home to talk about distribution of work around the house. Since I have started my morning sickness phase of pregnancy I often get home and start to clean something just to get too nauseous to continue. It has been aggrivating because with Kevin stuck in Rochelle nothing was getting done. Now that he is back he is looking at figuring out a way for all of this to work. So here is his solution, he will take care of the physical parts of upkeep of the house and I will take care of the secretarial aspects of the house. This includes but is not limited to: paying bills (which I already do), opening and sorting mail (which I already do), managing our medical (which will include changing his doctor, and possibly making appointments for him), filling out and submitting any paperwork needed for selling our home. I am completely fine with it. I am much better at doing this kind of stuff and I keep things better organized when I am taking care of this stuff, besides by doing it I can make sure that things get done (like getting him to an oncologist).

Anyway, hopefully this will help him feel more helped out around the house. I really do have a wonderful husband I mean how many women can claim that their husbands clean the house, wash the dishes, do the laundry, take out the trash, take care of all the yardwork, and cook meals without complaining about it? He is pretty awesome!

8 weeks

Yesterday I went to my third ultrasound appointment. My baby is now the size of an olive or grape and looks as the ultrasound tech said, like peanut with legs and arms. The appointment went strange compared to how it usually goes. The usual ultrasound tech was on vacation and so their back up tech was filling in for her. She was unfamiliar with that specific machine and got frustrated during the ultrasound. This resulted in me not being able to see anything except for the picture she printed out for me, which Kevin said later was not a very good picture of the baby. It makes me kind of bummed out, but it is ok. Kevin was able to be there and he was able to see it all he even got to see the heart beat this time. Since he missed the last ultrasound I am glad he was able to be at this one.

Ironically after the appointment Kevin and I went to get lunch and ended up at the toll road oasis. He got chicken strips and I got a smoothie and a pretzel. Here is the ironic/sort of gross part, one of his chicken strips looked like the silhouette of the baby in the ultrasound picture. Kevin shared his chicken strips with me, but I was unwilling to eat that strip. I could not eat it when it looked like my baby (even if it was a chickeny, breaded version).

I am currently 8 weeks 3 days along. At 10 weeks I get to stop my progesterone shots/injections, and hopefully at 12 weeks I will stop getting sick. Hopefully. Next week is my last appointment with the Fertility Clinic, and the week after that is my first appointment with my regular OBGYN. I am hoping for another ultrasound at that time, but we will see. By that time I should be off the progesterone. Yay!

I need to find a better scanner to scan the ultrasound pics onto the computer. Once I do then I will post the last two ultrasound pics. Until then you will just have to be patient.

New friend

The trashcan has become my friend, it sits by me waiting for the next emergency. The last few days I have needed it at least once a day. I am finding that if I keep my tummy full that it will happily stay mostly quiet. However, finding foods that will fill me up and not make me feel sick seems to be a harder and harder prospect to fulfill.

Things that make the tummy happy:
Pasta
Starbucks Strawberries and Crème
Mint gum (helps to fight my nausea, does not fill me up)
Stacy’s Simply Naked Pita chips
Almonds
Slightly salted rice cakes
Homemade mashed potatoes (the fake stuff makes me feel sick)


Other than this list it really varies, some days I may be able to eat something and then not be able to eat it the next.

Things at home are going crazy, we are having issues with car/driving abilities, which has resulted in some crazy maneuvering of schedules. Hopefully it will be able to be cleared up before the end of this week. Here’s hoping for things to work out.