I'm currently 14 weeks pregnant and throughout the last couple of months I've been keeping a little diary on my laptop of all the signs and symptoms I've been experiencing throughout first tri. I actually only started my old blog when I was 12 weeks pregnant with Lily which is annoying as I'd loved to have looked back on it now to see if I've experienced similar things at similar times. But oh well, I've learnt my lesson and will be thoroughly documenting this pregnancy instead!
4 Weeks
My 4th week has just been a week of pure exhaustion. I've been going to bed when Lily does every evening as I've barely been able to keep my eyes open. A crazy pregnancy sense of smell is kicking in too, I'm hoping this doesn't mean the start of sickness!
5 Weeks
Well..nausea has officially hit! Almost bang on 5 weeks. I'm not actually being sick but just like with Lily I'm feeling nauseous from the second I wake till the second I go to bed. I'm hoping this means things are progressing how they should be at least. My sense of smell is getting worse too, I cant stand the smell of cooking and I swear I can smell what the family 5 streets away are eating for their tea. So weird as I never got this sense of smell thing with Lily. I'm experiencing breathlessness too which I always thought you didn't get till the end of pregnancy what with carrying around all the extra weight? However if this ends up being the extent of my symptoms then I wont complain!
6 Weeks
This has been the hardest week by far. Vomiting all day every day and unable to keep food down, I can barely lift my head off the pillow and get out of bed. Really struggling with looking after Lily and annoyed that the docs wont give me any anti sickness tablets even though all I'm doing is being sick! I had sickness with Lily but not in this way, this really is something else. Migraines are starting to come back in the evenings now and I look about 5 months pregnant already..there's some serious bloating going on!
7 Weeks
I've finally been diagnosed with Hyperemesis Gravidarum which has been a bit of a relief and I now have anti sickness tablets, although they don't seem to be doing anything yet. I've had some strong cramps this week which I had with Lily and I think is just round ligament pain. I got to have an early scan this week to check that everything is okay with baby and we got to see a teeny tiny bean with a heartbeat. It makes everything worth it, it really does.
8 Weeks
This week really has been something else. With my body looking like it's going into ketosis
and being unable to keep any food down I've been in and out of hospital and on drips. Not a pleasant experience. I'm so weak and feeble with no fat or sugar in my body to give me energy that I keep fainting when I stand and it doesn't seem to be improving.
To top it all off I've started to bleed. Heavily. To the point where I'm sure that this is not okay. A second scan this week shows the baby still looks to be okay and has grown massively in size, looking like a little watsit now (!) but I can't allow myself to hope that this is going to be okay when I'm still bleeding like this. No reason for bleeding on the scan was found and the midwives seem just as baffled as I am.
9 Weeks
After the anxiety and stress of last week, week 9 has been a lot calmer. The bleeding has gradually stopped and I still feel really pregnant. My boobs are agony and I'm still being extremely sick, all day every day, which I'm taking as a good sign. Doctors have prescribed me stronger anti sickness tablets but all they seem to do is make me drowsy.
10 Weeks
This week has gone by in a blur of sickness however the tablets are finally meaning I can keep some food down at least. We managed to find babies heartbeat on the doppler towards the end of the week, amazing!
11 Weeks
This has been one hell of a rough week. I didn't know it was possible for one person to be sick this much, bleurgh! I feel like all I've done so far in this pregnancy is moan but I'm so ready for this hyperemesis to be done with. 12 week scan is next week though and it will all be worth it to see a healthy happy baby :)
12 Weeks
We had our scan this week! Everything looks great with the baby and we were put forward to 12+5 giving us a new due date of Feb 11th. James says its a bit too near to his birthday for his liking haha.
13 Weeks
I thought 12/13 weeks was supposed to be the turning point for sickness but it's really not relenting. Since week 11 I feel like its gotten even worse and I can't even contemplate the fact that it might be here to stay for the whole pregnancy. I know it does that for a lot of HG sufferers. The fainting feeling is back and looking after Lily on my own is near on impossible right now. At least my boobs have stopped being sore though! I'm so pleased everything is alright with our little bean so far, bur god I cant wait for this sickness to be a distant memory.
Here is the difference in bump from the week I found out to week 13 (last week) I feel absolutely huge! Especially considering I didn't really show with Lily till close to 20 weeks. Though they do say you show a lot faster with your second.
Here is me talking about my first trimester on my YouTube channel for anyone whose interested and join me next week for my 14 week update!
So lets rewind back to the start of June...
4 Weeks
My 4th week has just been a week of pure exhaustion. I've been going to bed when Lily does every evening as I've barely been able to keep my eyes open. A crazy pregnancy sense of smell is kicking in too, I'm hoping this doesn't mean the start of sickness!
5 Weeks
Well..nausea has officially hit! Almost bang on 5 weeks. I'm not actually being sick but just like with Lily I'm feeling nauseous from the second I wake till the second I go to bed. I'm hoping this means things are progressing how they should be at least. My sense of smell is getting worse too, I cant stand the smell of cooking and I swear I can smell what the family 5 streets away are eating for their tea. So weird as I never got this sense of smell thing with Lily. I'm experiencing breathlessness too which I always thought you didn't get till the end of pregnancy what with carrying around all the extra weight? However if this ends up being the extent of my symptoms then I wont complain!
6 Weeks
This has been the hardest week by far. Vomiting all day every day and unable to keep food down, I can barely lift my head off the pillow and get out of bed. Really struggling with looking after Lily and annoyed that the docs wont give me any anti sickness tablets even though all I'm doing is being sick! I had sickness with Lily but not in this way, this really is something else. Migraines are starting to come back in the evenings now and I look about 5 months pregnant already..there's some serious bloating going on!
7 Weeks
I've finally been diagnosed with Hyperemesis Gravidarum which has been a bit of a relief and I now have anti sickness tablets, although they don't seem to be doing anything yet. I've had some strong cramps this week which I had with Lily and I think is just round ligament pain. I got to have an early scan this week to check that everything is okay with baby and we got to see a teeny tiny bean with a heartbeat. It makes everything worth it, it really does.
8 Weeks
This week really has been something else. With my body looking like it's going into ketosis
and being unable to keep any food down I've been in and out of hospital and on drips. Not a pleasant experience. I'm so weak and feeble with no fat or sugar in my body to give me energy that I keep fainting when I stand and it doesn't seem to be improving.
To top it all off I've started to bleed. Heavily. To the point where I'm sure that this is not okay. A second scan this week shows the baby still looks to be okay and has grown massively in size, looking like a little watsit now (!) but I can't allow myself to hope that this is going to be okay when I'm still bleeding like this. No reason for bleeding on the scan was found and the midwives seem just as baffled as I am.
9 Weeks
After the anxiety and stress of last week, week 9 has been a lot calmer. The bleeding has gradually stopped and I still feel really pregnant. My boobs are agony and I'm still being extremely sick, all day every day, which I'm taking as a good sign. Doctors have prescribed me stronger anti sickness tablets but all they seem to do is make me drowsy.
10 Weeks
This week has gone by in a blur of sickness however the tablets are finally meaning I can keep some food down at least. We managed to find babies heartbeat on the doppler towards the end of the week, amazing!
11 Weeks
This has been one hell of a rough week. I didn't know it was possible for one person to be sick this much, bleurgh! I feel like all I've done so far in this pregnancy is moan but I'm so ready for this hyperemesis to be done with. 12 week scan is next week though and it will all be worth it to see a healthy happy baby :)
12 Weeks
We had our scan this week! Everything looks great with the baby and we were put forward to 12+5 giving us a new due date of Feb 11th. James says its a bit too near to his birthday for his liking haha.
13 Weeks
I thought 12/13 weeks was supposed to be the turning point for sickness but it's really not relenting. Since week 11 I feel like its gotten even worse and I can't even contemplate the fact that it might be here to stay for the whole pregnancy. I know it does that for a lot of HG sufferers. The fainting feeling is back and looking after Lily on my own is near on impossible right now. At least my boobs have stopped being sore though! I'm so pleased everything is alright with our little bean so far, bur god I cant wait for this sickness to be a distant memory.
Here is the difference in bump from the week I found out to week 13 (last week) I feel absolutely huge! Especially considering I didn't really show with Lily till close to 20 weeks. Though they do say you show a lot faster with your second.
Here is me talking about my first trimester on my YouTube channel for anyone whose interested and join me next week for my 14 week update!
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