I will also preface this moaning and whining with this disclaimer: Mom, I know you had it worse. Mad props. You're amazing.
So some people who are privy to the pregnancy keep asking me how I'm feeling and here is my honest account of how I am feeling:
1. I am nauseous... ALL the time. Not just in the morning, not just at night, ALL the time. The only time I am NOT nauseous is when I am eating. Which is why I am constantly snacking. The problem is, there is not much that I actually WANT to eat. Nothing seems appetizing. But I have to eat, because if my stomach gets too empty, I throw up. This is similar to my first pregnancy, and I had definitely forgotten just how miserable it was.
2. I am tired... always. I could nap anywhere, any time, if left sitting quietly for too long. I fall asleep at night the second my head hits the pillow...
3. ...But I can't sleep through the night, because I have to get up to pee in the middle of the night. Once I do that, I get nauseous and can't fall back asleep.
4. I am so sore. The first pregnancy, I remember people telling me it was much too early for my hips and pelvic bones to start aching. I swore it was real, and it definitely was, because now that I am pregnant again, the exact same aches and pains are back. This time around, I know that I have a retroverted uterus. So now it makes perfect sense that instead of my uterus growing straight up like most women, it's growing back and up. So it's spreading my hips and pressing on my sciatic nerve. Which is unpleasant, to say the least.
5. I feel so fat. I definitely started showing earlier this pregnancy than the first. But I am in the in-between stage where most people probably think I'm just fat. I can't fit in any of my jeans or leggings, and even if I could squeeze into them, I can't stand the tightness around my belly. It makes me throw up immediately. It's too early and awkward to wear maternity clothes. So I'm just stuck. By the end of the day at work, the elastic band on my scrub pants is holding on for dear life.
Most women who are unfortunate like me and have rough first trimesters at least have the fact that their symptoms will start to subside after the 1st trimester to look forward to. I am not one of these women. With Dominic, my nausea/vomiting didn't stop until 16 weeks. So even though I am getting closer to the end of the 1st trimester, I've still got at least 6 more weeks of feeling like this: