Nine months pregnant with nausea, vomiting, lower back pain, a sick sense of smell and extreme fatigue…welcome back first trimester times a million!
So for the past week-and-a-half I have battling a nasty “sickness”. It started last Monday when I started to feel 
nausea on-and-off throughout the day. I woke up fine on Tuesday and ate a normal breakfast, but after lunch I was in the bathroom throwing up everything that could possibly rise from my stomach. I’ve had stomach viruses before, but this felt different. Besides feeling nauseous and vomiting I didn’t feel sick in other ways (if that makes any sense). Of course we called our doctor who said 1. It could be a stomach bug OR 2. It could be signs of pre-labor due to the change of hormones.
Wednesday came and went with me feeling fine. Thursday some minor nausea and Friday, well I was good enough to make a trip to the only Friendly’s in Northern Virginia! And then there was Saturday…
On Saturday I had my good friend Casey’s bridal shower. I woke up feeling awful, the worst I felt in days. I was so incredibly nauseous that I was getting ready for the shower I had to stop every few minutes to still my body to stop the wave of sickness. I knew I shouldn’t have gone to the shower but I wanted to be there so badly! Once it was time to eat at the shower and I walked around the table trying to decide what might sit well (I had not eaten in 14 hours at this point). I knew my time there was numbered because the look and smell of all the food made me find the nearest toilet…let’s just say shortly thereafter I was in the car, driving home, crying mascara tears.
I spent the remainder of Saturday sleeping…and sleeping…and sleeping some more. By the seventh month of pregnancy I basically gave up on sleep as I spend most nights tossing and turning. I knew my body had shut down on Saturday as it was actually forcing me to sleep regardless of any big bump discomfort.
Today I finally feel recovered, not at 100% but any percentage is better than the 0% I felt on Saturday! I went and saw the doctor again and she is confident that all my symptoms are due to hormones. Apparently, this late in pregnancy it is normal to have first trimester symptoms come revisit prior to the baby’s arrival! This is awful news considering I didn’t even have these symptoms when I was in the first trimester of pregnancy! So now I am trying to take each day and awful symptom as it comes, hoping the final day until her birth is shortly upon us.
Waiting 4 Tuesday 