Ailments, Aversions and Attitude

Welcome to Week 9 of pregnancy, where pregnancy symptoms include:

 pregnancy symptoms at 9 weeks

• Moody. Those hormones just keep raging. Sorry mama-to-be -- but they should tone down in the second trimester.
• Morning (or all day) sickness. Do trial and error to see what makes you feel better.
• Frequent peeing, fatigue, nasal congestion and/or headaches (thanks again, hormones).
• Weight gain. You'll likely gain between 1 and 5 pounds during the first trimester.

And I have all of the above.

Ailments:

• Headaches: O.M.G. the headaches!  I've had bouts of bad headaches my whole life, but these are out of the ballpark.  It feels like some gremlin is literally digging his thumbs on both sides of my head trying to squeeze my head flat.  I've noticed that I can temporarily diffuse them by drinking a liter of water, but that helps for like twenty minutes and then I need to drink more water.  Which brings me to
• Peeing: Again, I've never won the award for best bladder, and been known to frequent the loo.  But as hubby will attest to, I now wake up in the middle of the night ON THE HOUR EVERY HOUR, as it feels like the same gremlin is literally sitting on my uterus pushing it down so hard, that I have to run lightening speed to the bathroom ten feet all night long. I guess this is how your body gets you used to sleepless nights
• Fatigue:  I was felling so good those first 6 weeks.  I was running 3 miles a day, and going to a strengthening class every day.  I haven't done jack in two weeks.  Not only can I not muster up the energy to run or attend class, but I now take a daily two hour nap right after work, and yet still am able to fall asleep at 10pm at night.

Aversions:

• I don't have the awful, over the toilet morning sickness.  But I do have the round the clock gagging reflex aversion sickness.  Starting when I wake up, I literally start gagging at the scent of pretty much anything, and can't seem to take anything down except starch - which is the worst thing I can eat for both the baby and me.  Again, the first six weeks I was on a roll cooking homemade lentils, quinoi, kale patties etc.  Now the though of health food grosses me out and all I want is "hangover food," greasy, starchy, nasty fast food, and soup.  I've been trying to be good, so I'll usually start with soup with will quench the hunger, and then I only want starchy food instead of the greasy and starchy food.

Attitude:

• I have no energy for niceties anymore.  I am so uncomfortable all the time, and I am not even showing yet, which makes me even more frustrated because nobody thinks I have an excuse.  All I want is to feel better, or normal, but until these headache and pee gremlins go away, and I can go an hour without gagging....get out of my way!