Pregnancy diaries || Week 6 & 7 - Morning Sickness

Week 6

Worst. Week. Ever. Anti-nausea remedies are no match for my morning sickness. During the first few days of week 6, I was at work and felt horrible the entire time, but was able to keep everything down. I first noticed the sickness on Tuesday morning when I had to get up early and catch a flight to Great Barrier Island for a work meeting. Something I had been looking forward to for a while. We were in work meetings during the morning but spent the afternoon exploring the island and I felt terrible. Clutching at my wrists in a desperate attempt to try to find the anti-nausea pressure points there as we bumped along the winding roads. Come Wednesday I was bed ridden, only half of what I ate actually stayed in my stomach, and I had to eat everything twice. Once to throw up and then again to keep down. I ended up taking the next few days off work and was bed ridden right through to the end of the week. Chris was a life saver, he took on all of the cooking, cleaning and comforting as I was helpless and could hardly stay awake to watch a movie in bed. Pretty much sustained myself on toast and Weetbix. Prenatal pills are essential but I dread taking them. My relationship with food has never been stranger.

How far along?: 6 weeks

Gender?: Unknown

Maternity clothes?: Nope

Stretch marks?: No

Belly button in or out?: In

Sleep?: Sleeping most of the day

Best Moment of the week?: Seeing the beautiful views or Great Barrier Island and those few moments where I can keep my food down

Worst Moment of the week?: Being the most sick I have ever been and not understanding my own body

Miss anything?: Food in general

Movement?: No

Cravings?: No

Queasy or sick?: Yes, complete and utter sickness. Bleh!

Looking forward to?: Eating and feeling normal again

Mood/emotional state?: Sick, tired and emotional

Week 7

I am starting to understand my morning sickness a little more so can kind of prepare for it. Every morning I have a few mouth fulls of water and promptly go to the bathroom to throw it back up. Knowing this means that I can preempt it. Plus, throwing up water is a whole lot easier and less wasteful than throwing up food. Otherwise, I have been feeling nauseous all day but no toilet/bucket emergencies at work yet, although I do think some of my colleagues may be getting suspicious. I need to eat every 2 hours otherwise I feel terrible.

How far along?: 7 weeks

Gender?: Unknown

Maternity clothes?: Nope

Stretch marks?: No

Belly button in or out?: In

Sleep?: Mostly normal

Best Moment of the week?: Feeling a little more like myself

Worst Moment of the week?: Still feeling sick and having to work through it

Miss anything?: Food in general

Movement?: No

Cravings?: No

Queasy or sick?: Yes, but at least I'm functional again

Looking forward to?: Telling my family about our pregnancy

Mood/emotional state?: Tired and sick

Early Pregnancy diaries || Week 4 & 5 - When we first found out

Chris and I are so thrilled to announce that we are expecting our first child!! I wanted to document our journey for our own records and for those of you who are also interested. So follow along and let's see where this new adventure takes us. Fair warning, pregnancy can get a bit gross and weird and I don't plan on holding anything back on my blog. So if that's not your thing, proceed with caution. You may learn something about me that you weren't prepared for.

Week 4

I am usually pretty regular when it comes to my periods so I knew something was up when it had been a couple of extra days without showing up.  However I knew that getting such big news, regardless of whether it was positive or negative would be too much for me to receive either before work or before bed time. So we decided to wait a little longer until the weekend. Which resulted in what seemed to be the longest week of my life.
Finally, Saturday 4th November rolled around and it was the day of the test, and boy was I nervous.  I saved my first wee of the day in a throw away container and waited until I was completely awake and ready to receive potentially life changing news. We took the morning to bask in the great unknown, Chris cooked us breakfast, and then we took the plunge.

This was the first pregnancy test I have ever felt I needed to take. As I mentioned earlier, I am pretty regular, but even on those occasions when "shark week" was fashionably late, it didn't worry me. I didn't feel pregnant then. My boobs had become sore and swollen but they have done that almost every month at this time, for years on end with no significance. However this time it felt different and I had a hunch that I would be seeing those two little lines that can flip your world upside down in a matter of moments. Chris and I huddled on the couch with the pre-dipped stick waiting expectantly, upside down, on the coffee table. I was way to nervous to check myself so it was Chris who actually found out first, revealing the result to me with tears in his eyes... "You're pregnant!"

Over the following days we would both randomly pipe up with "Guess what? You're/I'm pregnant!" and "This is crazy" For a planned pregnancy it was surprising how surreal it all felt. Can this really be real? Is this finally happening after 13 years together and at least 8 years trying to imagine it. We had not officially been "trying" but we had not been preventing for the last couple of months either. We nicknamed our little miracle "Spud" as that is the name which Chris suggested for my pregnancy App.

How far along?: 4 weeks + 5d

Gender?: Unknown

Maternity clothes?: Nope

Stretch marks?: No

Belly button in or out?: In

Sleep?: Normal

Best Moment of the week?: Finding out that I am pregnant

Worst Moment of the week?: Waiting almost a week to find out

Miss anything?: Not yet

Movement?: No

Cravings?: No

Queasy or sick?: No

Looking forward to?: Growing this little human

Mood/emotional state?: Incredibly happy

Week 5

Day one of week 5 brought with it a couple of light headed moments, when I was getting up too fast, but they passed without significance. There was an hour of light nauseousness in the afternoon at work but that passed too. My Mum didn't suffer from morning sickness, in fact she makes it sound like both of her pregnancies were a walk in the park. It may be rose-tinted glasses but I am hoping I will follow suit. I know that this is wishful thinking and the dreaded morning sickness will likely wallop me when I least expect it. So I plan to enjoy my meals while I can, as who knows how long it will last. My desk drawer is slowly turning into an anti nausea secret storage unit. Containing lemon and ginger tea, crackers and emergency rations. Time will tell if I need it or if it will actually work.

My brother, his girlfriend and I went for an overnight hike along the Pouaki trap at Mt Taranaki with an Auckland based adventure group called "Got to get out". It was definitely not an easy hike but the great views, laughs and accomplishment was well worth while. Chris wasn't able to come as he had already signed up for a car event that weekend. So I was the only one who knew about our exciting news. I managed to keep the secret but did feel like I struggled a little more then usual as I was starting to feel a little queezy and bloated, but not enough to be sick (although I did gag at one point during the second day's breakfast) but it felt good to be continuing on with my normal plans and enjoying time with friends.

How far along?: 5 weeks

Gender?: Unknown

Maternity clothes?: Nope

Stretch marks?: No

Belly button in or out?: In

Sleep?: Normal

Best Moment of the week?: Experiencing an incredible New Zealand hiking trail with friends

Worst Moment of the week?: Being absolutely exhausted after hiking all day and feeling a little sick.

Miss anything?: Not yet

Movement?: No

Cravings?: No

Queasy or sick?: No

Looking forward to?: Growing this little human

Mood/emotional state?: Tired but happy