I’m officially almost through the eighth week of pregnancy, depicted at left. My little son or daughter is now reactive to the environment in the amniotic sac. S/he can swim and move and has little hands and feet. My baby may look like an alien but s/he’s a beautiful little miracle to me.
Good thing, too. Those pregnancy hormones are in full swing, making me nauteous and exhausted. I had it easy with the first two, and really only suffered exhaustion with Bug. But now, morning sickness sounds like such a nice thing to have. All-day sickness is no fun. And it is hard to do much in the way of creative lesson applications while lying on the couch, hoping everything will stay down. And bedtime. Oh, I count down the hours until bedtime.
And then I read things like this…two of nine symptoms of twin pregnancy are extreme fatigue and increased morning sickness…more accurately all-day sickness. Doubtful, but if that is the case, I fear my days of exhaustion have just begun! It doesn’t look like I’ll have long to wait to know for sure, however. My obstetrician now does an ultrasound at ten weeks to date the pregnancy. So little junior or juniors should have their first photograph in about two weeks.
In the meantime, I still have to figure out how to keep school going forward. The vitamins make me feel worse…I’m thinking we’ll have to get back into juicing. Even that seems daunting at the moment, but hopefully the improved nutrition will help us all! Any other ideas? And did any of you experience elevated symptoms with any of your children? Whether they turned out to be singletons or multiples?
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Oh my goodness I had more sickness with each child. I lost weight also, because I couldn’t eat. Nothing seemed to help but I tried whatever was suggested (within reason). It just resolved about halfway through. And each of mine was a single bundle of joy. I think hormones for two might have done me in!
I would do school from the couch at times. Also would check out educational videos from the library. For that season I pared things (subjects, cleaning) down to the essentials too. And whenever I could nap, I did so. Hope I’m being helpful. I’ll keep you in my prayers Dana. God bless!
I’ve never had morning sickness. My cure was bagels and cream cheese every night before bed. I’m not sure that’s the reason I never had morning sickness but I always ate it and never got sick. Coincidence? Maybe, but I never tried NOT eating it at night to find out for sure.
As far a juicing, be careful. The extra sugar can actually make you slow down, not energize you. That was my experience anyway.
As far as schooling, do what you can. Have loads of books on tape and easy to make meals. That along with a supply of sharp pencils and blank paper should hold them for atleast the next few hours.
I’m praying for you.
By the way, don’t hold off entering this contest because you won the last one. I do hope you enter.
I’ve never had morning sickness before, either. The first two were a breeze and I was just tired with number three. When we juice, it isn’t much. An 8 oz glass or so, so probably not enough to have much of an effect, but I love the apple carrot juice! I felt better before when we used to do it a few times a week, but always wondered if that wasn’t as much psychological as anything! We don’t go for the all juice and nothing else diets!
Thanks for the invite on the contest…I think I have an entry.
Anna-Marie, that sounds awful! I can’t imagine actually losing weight! I think I’m having this because I decided I was going to be more careful about gaining weight this time…eat more carefully and all that. So what happens? I get sick…and the only relief is to keep my stomach full. While that doesn’t keep me from nausea, it does keep me from actually vomitting, which is weird, but a plus.
I had MS all day long. It was so bad that I would vomit up water after drinking just water.
The only thing I could eat were McDonald’s quarter pounders. I kid you not. I never once vomited one up, and I stopped being nauseous.
My nurses told me some fairly useful things: first, try to stop eating only fruit/veggies/carbs. Protein helps immensly because it’ll prevent sugar crashes and dizziness that come from them. So eat eggs + sausage at breakfast, pork chops at lunch, turkey pot pie at dinner, and nuts in between.
Giinger really did help the nausea; you can buy ginger extract liquids at health food stores.
I also found that taking naps instead of fighting the fatigue really helped. and I was *literally* sleeping 12-15 hours every day until week 16. just give in and sleep.
Oh my, I’ve had the morning sickness! It was horrible with twins, but it was so bad that only one lived past the first trimester. But I still had horrid, horrid morning sickness all day long with my pregnancies, singletons or not. I’ve even been hospitalized for it a couple of times. I’m now 3 weeks from giving birth to my 7th child and I am still 10lbs less than when I concieved! He’s a singleton. I was pretty convinced he would be a twin because hormone levels were really multiplying FAST with him and I was sick SO fast.
Trial and error are the only things that work, lol, every pregnancy is different. But, in order to not throw up I did discover taking Pepcid AC Maximum strength along with a prescription drug called Reglan worked wonders. Zofran works incredibly, but insurance won’t cover enough to get by. I gave up diet soda to get pregnant, and discovered right at the end of morning sickness that I could get that down and feel good! Waste of 12 weeks……… This time, ginger didn’t work, soda didn’t work, coffee didn’t work, protein didn’t work, keeping a full tummy didn’t work, eating before getting out of bed didnt’ work. I threw up from March to the first week of August! I still feel like throwing up, but thankfully don’t.
Not helpful, huh? Take the drugs, they help keep things down, though you’ll still feel sick, oh, and they make you tired, lol. I just gave in and didn’t homeschool until it passed, which it did with all other pregnancies by 13 weeks.
You can also do a search on preggie pops, and there are motion sickness wristbands that sometimes help. Mint flavored gums helped to keep things down, too, for a time. Got me through long enough to get home before I threw up if I HAD to go somewhere.
God bless,
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