Week 9

The nausea started to ease this week and I had two days were I felt great! As long as I snacked the second I felt hungry or sick I stayed on top of the nausea. But I also had my first migraine in months. That was not fun.

I sent Tony out to get me a coke and go to the chemist to see if I could still take my usual migraine tablets. Even though I had two pharmacists tell me it was ok to take them, I still felt bad about taking them and then worried even more, which didn't help. It was the day after the confirmation scan and flu shot. I'm pretty sure it was a combination of stressing myself out over the scan, side effects of the flu shot and not drinking nearly enough water while sitting in waiting rooms at the FS/OB and GP.

I'm still on progesterone pessaries every third night, I forgot to ask at my appointment how long I'm on them for. The FS nurses had told me that with some girls Dr S has them stop the pessaries at 9 weeks but with others he likes to wait until after the NT scan. I still have plenty in the fridge but I should ring and ask the midwife at his office just to double check.

This week I also went into a baby and childrens clothing store and actually made a purchase! Not for our baby, but for my niece. Previously I'd avoid any baby stores, I just didn't feel like I belonged or could shop in them. Infertility really makes you question even the smallest of things and walking into that store was just too hard in the past. I just bought two little Easter and bunny themed bibs as an Easter gift, but still, that was a huge step for me.

But I did buy something for our baby, it's the very first purchase I've made. I went on etsy and bought the cutest little yellow booties. They have little yellow duck buttons on them and I plan to use them in our facebook/social media announcement. My husband has been nagging me to announce on facebook for a few weeks now, but I'm a bit too superstitious and I wanted to wait until I was further along. I think I'll still wait a week or two after our next appointment before I go public on facebook.

And my gorgeous mother in law and sister in law gave us a photo frame to put a picture of the scan in. It has the sweetest poem on it and they made me tear up. My mother in law is also knitting a doll for our baby. My grandmother used to knit a lot and made every new baby in the family a knitted doll, when I saw the same pattern she used in a craft store I had to buy it. In the last few years my mother in law has learnt to knit and she offered to knit the doll for us. My grandma passed away a few years ago and it means so much to me that my child will have the same hand knitted doll, made by their grandmother.

Of course, it was Easter this week too! We had lunch with Tony's family on Friday and lunch with my family on Saturday. Low key and uneventful, which was nice. I don't think anyone noticed that I only took the smallest amount of food for lunch, I'm still struggling to eat a full meal.

That reminds me, a few mornings this week I woke up at 5am and was starving! One of those days I felt great, just hungry. I ate a full breakfast, lunch and dinner which surprised me and my husband! But that didn't last and I'm back to snacking.

Sleep wise, I'm waking up a few times a night to get a drink and visit the loo. But I sleep so soundly that it doesn't bother me. I fall asleep pretty quickly and mostly stay asleep. Sometimes I sleep that deeply that I don't even move and I wake up stiff and sore in the same position I fell asleep in.

This week hasn't been too bad but I am really ready for the nausea to go. I'll take heartburn and headaches over the nausea any day.