Second trimester



Well, I officially entered the second trimester last week.  Kind of hard to believe!  Part of me feels like this is dragging on and part of me feels like it’s going quickly!  One thing I know for sure, though…  I really want to start feeling better soon.

I am super thankful that this pregnancy seems to be the “best” so far, as far as sickness goes.  I think a lot of that has to do with knowing how I get and fighting it early.  I started Zofran at 6 weeks and I’ve heard that if you can stop the vomiting before it starts, you’re much better off than trying to get it under control once it does start.

I currently take Unisom + B6 (in combination, they are an anti-nausea med marked as Diclectin in Canada), Zofran, Colace (because Zofran constipates – yay!), and then Pepcid in my IVs as well as my prenatals via IV.  I do two liters of hydration daily, and one infusion of two liters takes about 3.5 hours, which means Skip spends a lot of the evenings on his own with the kids.

Some days are better than others.  Some days are still really bad.  It seems travel, staying up late and too much activity in general set me off.

Oh, I have this other issue of the bad taste in my mouth.  I complained about it a lot when I was pg with the boys.  The taste really sets off feeling sick, but originally, I was able to combat it with lemon candy.  But then I got a mouth full of canker sores.  I then discovered Wintergreen Life Savers helped, but they ended up burning my tongue after a few days.  Now I’ve moved on to Wintergreen gum, but I am so sick of gum at this point…

I literally MUST have a piece of gum in my mouth at any time I am not eating, or the taste creeps up and I get sick.  Too bad the gum is getting rather sickening itself at this point.

I was sick through 20 weeks with Calista, so hopefully I am “only” looking at a little more than 6 weeks of this.  Oh my would that be nice!  My fingers are crossed that I will find relief soon.

It’s times like this that I wish we had a better local support network.  We don’t have any local family, and we do have great friends, but they are busy with lives of their own.  My mom has been as great as she can be from 3,000 miles away – checking on me and sending me different candy to try, maternity clothes, etc (thanks, Mom!).  I really wish we had some help for Skip right now, though.  I feel really bad that he’s got to do most everything, and I wish I could bear some of the burden for him.  We have a gym membership that offer’s “Kids’ Night Out” on Fridays where you can drop off your kids for a few hours of games and swimming, and I need to schedule one of those for him.

Hopefully in a few weeks, this will no longer be an issue as I will be feeling better, right??!

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