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Week 17
~ Exhausted - Still
Oh, will this nauseous feeling please go away? I am so done with morning sickness. I’m happy to report that I haven’t thrown up for awhile, but I feel like I could. I’ve realized that the ravenous appetite I get in the first trimester has subsided quite a bit so I’m back to eating three meals a day, however I’ve noticed that I need a snack mid-morning and late afternoon to keep the nausea away, and even then it doesn’t always work. I am loving watermelon right now. I think we’ve eaten four entire watermelons in the last two weeks. Now, I should say that Maddie is a huge watermelon fan, so she’s helping…. a little bit.  But, the big problem with fruit is it doesn’t stay with me. I’m hungry again in hour.
I’m still exhausted. I’ve just resolved that this is the way this pregnancy is going to be, unfortunately. I haven’t had too many bouts of that lovely pregnancy insomnia. Ick - I got that all the time when I was pregnant with Maddie. It’s miserable. I’m not even waking up in the middle of the night to pee. Just around 4 or 5 am and that’s the trouble. I can’t or have a really hard time falling back to sleep after that. Ally started climbing out of her crib a few weeks ago so we’re having her sleep on a mattress on the floor while she gets used to it. She was getting out of bed many, many times at night so we put a doorknob cover on the inside of her door. She really hasn’t protested and she’s stopped waking up in the middle of the night. The trade off is she’s up with the chickens. She walks over to her door and starts knocking on her door. Loudly! Then she yells, “Mom! How me get outta here?“ This morning she was up at 6:20 am and she woke up Maddie with her pounding on the door. I was up tinkling around 5 and never got back to sleep. And I wonder why I am tired! A friend was just telling me that the second trimester can bring on more fatigue than the first. She didn’t say why, but now I believe it. I feel like I could sleep for days.
There was an old member on StorkNet’s message boards that said after she had her second child that one her biggest fantasies was to escape to a beautiful hotel, draw the curtains, order a fabulous meal (room service) then go to bed --- alone!! Ya know, I can relate!
The itchies have begun. It’s hard not to scratch myself, especially my boobs in public. They are sooo itchy! My belly is really itchy too. Nothing is really helping. I guess it’s just my skin stretching. I remember being really itchy with Maddie and Ally too. I put lotion on all the time; it’s just not enough! Oh, itching my belly reminds me of a funny Ally story. When we were on vacation and Tom saw me with my bikini top and board shorts, he giggled and then said, “Well, as long as you don’t scratch your belly and yell, gimme a beer, I’m ok with what you’re wearing.” I guess he was inferring that my poochy belly looked somewhat like a big beer belly. So, after we got home, a couple of times, I’d lift up my shirt, scratch my belly and yell, “Gimme a beer!” We tease each other a lot and to see this horrified look on his face was just too much fun. Well, Ally hears everything and a couple of weeks ago, she was singing her ABC’s and right smack in the middle of them, guess what she yells? “Gimme a beer!” Oh, it was funny!! I haven’t said it since, and neither has she, thank goodness! We really have to watch what we say around her!! Lol!
The timing of this baby has got me thinking about the holidays and how absolutely crazy it’s going to be unless I am really organized. I’m a last-minute shopper and to plan this far in advance will be hard for me. I’ve told family that I need ideas and they just looked at me like I’m crazy, but I know what it will be like. If this baby is born around Thanksgiving, the first two-to-three weeks, I’ll just be barely surviving. Thank goodness for internet and catalog shopping!! They have been life savers in the past for me. My mom and her husband may be here, depending on how my mom is feeling so I could probably put her husband to good use and send him shopping for me. Heck, he’d probably even wrap presents for me if I asked him to. Christmas will be really fun this year. Maddie totally gets it and this year, Ally will too so I want to make it special for them. It will just require lots planning.
We have the big ultrasound coming up next week. I’m excited to get another peek at this little guy. I’m hoping everything looks good. It just dawned on me that I never got the AFP test done. At my last appointment, the computer system was down, so they weren’t able to give me the paperwork and my Ob said they’d mail it to me. Of course that never happened. Grrrr. Does anybody give good customer service anymore? It’s been so long since I’ve seen follow-through from any business that I think I’d fall over if someone actually did something they said they would without a million follow-up phone calls from me first. Anyway, I think I’ll probably just bypass the AFP at this point and see what the ultrasound shows. The CVS test we did at week 12 doesn’t test for neural tube defects but at this point, I think the ultrasound will pick that up if there’s a problem. Wish me luck!
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