Baby Week 13 – When is this “morning sickness” going to end?
June 30, 2008
As I mentioned in my first “second baby” post, I suspect that I will frequently compare my first pregnancy with this one. So, with Xander, my morning sickness was pretty much textbook. I was nauseous from 9am to 11am every morning, recovered by lunch, and was fine for the rest of the day. I wasn’t overly tired, and there were times that I could forget that I was actually pregnant. This time around is of course completely different. My “morning sickness” hits me sometime in the morning and then lasts all day. From about 5 weeks until 9 weeks, I could plan on this almost every day. It was pretty miserable. By week 10, I could go 1 or 2 or sometimes 3 days without feeling nauseous, but then just as I was thinking that perhaps the morning sickness was going away, I’d be hit with a particularly bad day. By the time 12 weeks was up with Xander, the morning sickness slowed down, and was nearly gone by 13 weeks.
I’m at 13 weeks now, and still having “morning sickness” 3-4 times a week. I’ve found a few ways to at combat the worst of it – I’m often ill around dinner time, which means I eat very little if anything. That of course means by the time I’m ready for bed, I’m starving. If I ignore my hunger and go to sleep (exhaustion has also been a much bigger problem this time around, so I’m always looking to get into bed early), I know that the next day I will be punished by feeling incredibly ill all day. So, I’ve taken to snacking at night. I once heard that eating cheese as a snack in the evenings is good because cheese takes longer to digest, so you won’t feel hungry in the morning. This works for me sometimes. Sometimes I eat some raw veggies, and if I’m particularly hungry, I make myself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and wash it down with a glass of milk. This usually helps the following day. Unfortunately, it’s not a guarantee. I’m worried that I’m into my second trimester and still having “morning sickness” and maybe I will be one of those horribly unlucky women who has this awful nausea for the whole 9 months. Another 7 months of this feels like an awfully long time…
The most popular question I’ve gotten so far is if we plan to find out the sex. The answer is most definitely yes! We wanted to know with Xander, but he was less than cooperative. In retrospect, this was ok – we got lots of gender neutral stuff for the baby shower, which was great. This time around I don’t have to worry about being inundated with all pink or all blue, so I’d like to know as soon as I can. I don’t really care either way, and the old cliche remains true, as long as the baby is healthy, I really don’t care either way.
If I had to take a guess today, I would tell you that I must be carrying a girl, because she is already giving me so much trouble 
But other than the extreme differences between the two pregnancies, I really don’t have much of a feeling about what gender I’ve got growing inside.
