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Pregnancy Diary: Morning Sickness

Wednesday July 17th, 2024

I left off in my last pregnancy diary post saying I felt queasy for the first time and man has morning sickness hit hard. Since the beginning of July, I haven’t been able to drink coffee, eat vegetables, sweets, or really much of anything besides crackers and meat. How random is that?!

Mornings and evenings are the worst for feeling nauseous. If I get too hungry, it’s game over and I can only lay on the couch and eat crackers until I get something in my stomach. So, foods that are okay right now are eggs and cheese on toast in the morning and graham crackers with a tiny bit of peanut butter.

In the day, I can eat somewhat normally–really bland or plain meat and a baked potato for example. At night, I can only stomach crackers. It has been a struggle to say the least! I wrote a note in my phone on July 9th that said this:

I am lacking ME and my spark. Just really struggling with food and mentally not feeling like me. I’m tired! This is the worst I’ve had morning sickness. Trying so hard to have a fun summer for the kids!

Yeah, that about sums up life right now. I miss feeling like myself. Jimmy has asked me so many times “What’s wrong?!” and I realize I’m totally devoid of emotion. Nothing is wrong… I’m just blah feeling. I can’t stand the smell of Jimmy’s cologne, I hate toothpaste and gum, I’m hungry all the time but can’t think of anything to eat. It’s just weird. But it’s worth it a million times over! (more…)

Finding Sweetness in the Bitter

On Sunday afternoon, Sadie came to me and said her earring felt too tight. I looked, and the back of her ear had dried blood on it. I asked Jimmy to have a look and he said “Oh, it looks like the backing of your earring fell off.” I knew there was no way her earring would stay in without the backing, so I prodded at it a little and saw the the back was completely inside her ear lobe. Ugh.

She was really hesitant to let us touch her ear because it was tender. We both tried, but had no luck getting the back of her earring out of her ear. It was stuck. We had church that night, and I asked Sadie if my sister could look at it. Sadie adores her aunt Hannah and really trusts her, so we had Hannah have a look.

Hannah also tried to poke around and at this point, Sadie’s earring back started to come out of the front of her ear and was bleeding. We abandoned the mission and I called Sadie’s doctor on our way home from church. They advised going to the ER to have the backing removed ASAP to avoid infection. (more…)