Ten whole weeks pregnant and it has flown by! I was dreading not having an early reassurance scan in this pregnancy, after all I had them with my last pregnancy and it helped to put
Ten whole weeks pregnant and it has flown by! I was dreading not having an early reassurance scan in this pregnancy, after all I had them with my last pregnancy and it helped to put my mind at ease. But I was in the frame of mind that it was a waste of time, yes the scan at 8 weeks could of shown a healthy heartbeat but what’s to say that the day after it wouldn’t all go wrong? So this time we are waiting formy 12 week scan, which is in 2 weeks.
I am still sick, really really sick. I find myself gagging repeatedly not just in the mornings, but all times of the day. The smell of my sons nursery makes me heave, it is lunch time when I collect him and the smell of their fish pie or whatever home cooked offerings are brewing make me gag on the spot. But I haven’t yet told nursery I am expecting, so the look of me with a green face as I pick him up is probably quite funny. I am still on my HG medication of 3 tablets a day, and I am keeping water down so that is a good thing for now. I keep reminding myself how much worse I was in previous pregnancies when I couldn’t even keep water down and was hospitalised, but right now it’s tricky to see that it could be any worse than how I feel right now.
Anaemia, this is also something I suffer from in all pregnancies. I have been desperately trying to take supplements, but when you are feeling delicate and are being sick, its just not that easy, so I have been going without quite a lot. I feel dizzy and have a pounding headache, I keep having funny turns and I am sure its because of my iron levels but it just seems so hard to get iron down me when I am so sick.
This afternoon I have my first midwife appointment, I have to take Marky with me, so I hope he behaves! He will probably look a state as I pick him up from nursery right before my appointment, and he is normally covered in paint and play-doh! I always worry that the midwife will look at me in a bad light if my children are messy or dirty. I know I will need blood taken, and I hate needles but I am actually looking forward to finding out just how bad my anaemia is as well as having my blood pressure taken, which is always really low.
So HG sickness, low blood pressure and anaemia that pretty much sums up my pregnancies and this one doesn’t appear to be any different just yet.