Nausea, Sleepiness & Food

Our refrigerator has never been so full.  I panic when we start running out of bread, cereal and fruit.  All in all, I've been craving healthy snacks and meals.  Salads have never appealed to me so much (even though usually topped with ranch dressing).  And I can't seem to get enough oranges, grapes and apples. 

I think I've had a fairly mild first trimester.  First of all, I'm so glad I had a full 9 days of no work soon after we got the news.  I was super addicted to caffeine and especially reliant on my morning coffee to break through the fog in my brain.  I spent the entire Christmas break weaning myself off caffeine and was so thankful I didn't have to be at work through that process.  Eventually, coffee started making me sick to smell or even to look at.  I wonder if I'll ever drink it again. 

Almost immediately after we told my parents, I started feeling sick.  I was getting up with Will to eat at 5:30am over Christmas break when he and dad were heading out in their camouflage each morning.  For about two weeks, I had to get up that early and immediately eat something and even choking down two slices of bread was at times nauseating.  At one point I kept fig newtons on my bedside table and when I would wake up at 2 or 3 in the a.m. to pee (side note: I started waking up to pee in the middle of the night at week 6! I always assumed that didn't start until the third trimester but I was wrong!) I'd have to eat a few to keep from getting sick.  Will always found it funny when he awoke every night to the sound of me wrestling with the wrapper.  But not once did he get annoyed with me.  He took my nausea just as seriously as I did and made it his mission to find food for me whenever needed, no matter what we were in the middle of doing.  Lucky for both him and me, the nausea passed within 4 weeks or so and I only actually got sick a handfull of times.  Throughout this whole time, I thought about Emily W... how did she endure that during her entire pregnancy.  Nausea is a pretty miserable and irritating feeling.

Since the naseau passed, I hit my tired phase and it hasn't passed yet, although, I think it's on its way out.  Onyx and I have been crawling into bed together when I get home from work for about 30 minutes so I can stir up enough energy to eat again.  Will has also been affected by the tired phase.  Some days he is just as tired as I am and we've both been sleeping a lot on the weekends.  It's been wonderful!  I love my sleep these days and I'm taking full advantage.

According to the doctors, I'm gaining weight at the right rate.  And I recently started back running a few times a week.  Feels good to move again.  I think I'm on my way to the supposed great feelings of the second trimester.  See ya later first trimester; thanks for being fairly easy and thanks for growing our little 3 inch shrimp.