A highlight of April was taking Tabitha to the zoo for The Daddy's birthday (the big 3-0) - Tabby is kind of obsessed with meerkats, so any chance to visit the funny little creatures is always exciting.
Face of Awe watching her meerkat friends...
Such cute creatures. Tabitha has a stuffed, fairly realistic toy meerkat who goes to bed with her most nights.
Even though T loves her food, she was so keen on the lions that she tried to share her banana chips with them. She was surprised they didn't go for them...
Checking out more big cats. Do you see a pattern here? One of her first words was cat, she loves the meerkats, loves the big cats... Yes, she's a cat lady in the making!
Wandering around with two of her favourite people - Daddy and Aunty Q:
Another of her favourite people - Grandpa Gra - holds her to have a close-up look at the swimming seals:
Daddy showing her the statue baby seal - I think that she preferred this to the real ones, because she could poke its whiskers!
We are incredibly skilled at posing for terrible family photos. I'm not sure that there is a single photo in existence of our little family where we are all smiling directly at the camera!
In the above photos, I am just shy of 7 weeks pregnant. The nausea first kicked in around the 6 week mark, by 7.5 weeks I was struggling to get off the floor, and by 8 weeks I was on medication (to stop the vomiting, as I was becoming dehydrated and starting to lose weight). I stayed on the medication until 22 weeks, still vomiting most days, and still feeling incredibly shocking. Now, at 29 weeks, I am *only* vomiting a few times a week, and apart from a couple of hours in the morning, I'm feeling okay, just very tired. I tell you, if I had have been this sick when pregnant with Tabitha, I'm not sure there would have been a Baby #2! With Tabby, I only had the ordinary 12-week morning/all day sickness, and certainly not badly enough to threaten hospital! I have resigned myself, at this point, for being sick for the entire duration of the pregnancy, but I am very thankful that I am so much better now than I was for the first half - I have heard of women who have had the Hypermesis Gravidarum condition in full whack for the entire 40+ weeks!
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You poor thing, I'm glad to hear the fog has lifted a bit. I have hyperemesis and it is absolute hell, I'm hoping it will end at some point.
Do you mind me asking what you were/are able to eat? I am always looking for new ideas for food that might stay down.
Rosebeg
I was as sick as a dog from week 5 - 18, then only 'mildly' ill through to the end when pregnant with my son. I lost a lot of weight in those first weeks. Morning sickness is a shocker! Doctors even prescribed me a medication taken by cancer patients to try and stem the nausea but even that didn't work!! I would love a second baby and we have just decided to try again, and I have had to prepare myself mentally for the fact that I will be sick. It is as much a mental battle - to just keep going and pushing through despite the fact that you want to die! - as a physical one.
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Congrats on the pregnancy. So sorry to hear it hasnt been pleasant so far. Hope it gets better from here on out.
Thanks Sandra!
Rosebeg, it's hard, because food is so different for different people - so many of the 'suggested foods' I could not stomach! Generally, plain carbs were best, I could stomach most high-calorie plain carbs. So, chicken maggi noodles, potato cakes, vegimite buttered white bread toast. Oh and grilled cheese on (white bread) toast was all I could eat for days, back in the start! Nowadays I'm able to stomach most foods, as long as I don't eat too much of anything. Really crisp apples are good, grilled cheese toast is still a winner, and very cold milk on cornflakes with sliced banana is nice too.
Marnie - yes that's the same medication I was on, Zofran, the wafers. Such a shame it didn't work for you! I found that the full dose was enough to keep me basically functional, though I was still vomiting and feeling shocking even on the medication for the first 16 weeks or so. By 22 weeks I was able to come off the medication, and as long as I eat regular small meals, and have breakfast in bed first thing in the morning, and get ample sleep, I am okay most days. One thing I would say - every pregnancy is different, and you might even find you don't get sick at all next time!! But one thing you could do, to prepare yourself mentally, is set up plenty of support such as a cleaner or friend to help out, plenty of frozen meals etc. I know how hard it must be though - the sickness this time has pretty much confirmed for me that we will stop at two children!!!
Thanks Sandra!
Rosebeg, it's hard, because food is so different for different people - so many of the 'suggested foods' I could not stomach! Generally, plain carbs were best, I could stomach most high-calorie plain carbs. So, chicken maggi noodles, potato cakes, vegimite buttered white bread toast. Oh and grilled cheese on (white bread) toast was all I could eat for days, back in the start! Nowadays I'm able to stomach most foods, as long as I don't eat too much of anything. Really crisp apples are good, grilled cheese toast is still a winner, and very cold milk on cornflakes with sliced banana is nice too.
Marnie - yes that's the same medication I was on, Zofran, the wafers. Such a shame it didn't work for you! I found that the full dose was enough to keep me basically functional, though I was still vomiting and feeling shocking even on the medication for the first 16 weeks or so. By 22 weeks I was able to come off the medication, and as long as I eat regular small meals, and have breakfast in bed first thing in the morning, and get ample sleep, I am okay most days. One thing I would say - every pregnancy is different, and you might even find you don't get sick at all next time!! But one thing you could do, to prepare yourself mentally, is set up plenty of support such as a cleaner or friend to help out, plenty of frozen meals etc. I know how hard it must be though - the sickness this time has pretty much confirmed for me that we will stop at two children!!!
Thanks for your reply, I also eat a lot of 2 min noodles which I hadn't eaten since I was a child. I might have to try crisp apples, it would be nice to eat some fruit.
I am still trying to convince myself I can go through this again for a second child! I can understand you wanting to stop at two.
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