Pregnancy Week 6

Week 6

The nausea has really started to kick up!  Early in the week I felt so horrible between nausea and fighting a head cold and allergies, by the time bed time hit I just laid on the bed and cried.  Alan was super sweet and just held me and rubbed my back until I stopped crying.  Since then he and I have both been researching how to handle morning sickness and I’ve been trying a few things.  Sprite and saltine crackers are my best friend this week.  Those along with peppermint candies and ginger tea seem to be helping enough.  Sometimes it even seems like the peppermint altoids (it’s all they had at the gas station) help even just by smelling them in the tin.  I have to use something constantly though…….Sprite, mints, crackers……..it’s a constant cycle.  I’m also finding I am pretty tired during the day.  I feel like just a 30 minute nap would help a ton, and an hour would be even better. Too bad I can’t have naps at work, right?  Outside of the nausea issues, my back still gets a bit stiff sometimes if I stay in the same position too long, and I haven’t buttoned up my pants the last two days. J  They still fit, I just feel like they push too much on my stomach when they are done up, so I’m not doing it.

I’ve been doing lots of reading online about things we should buy for the baby and things we shouldn’t.  Some of the things are pretty consistent and others are random.  I can’t wait to be able to tell my family, mostly my aunts, so they can help me make sense of it all!  I also went and did my Brazilian wax last night as scheduled.  I found out the hard way that when you are pregnant, that area becomes much more sensitive!  Sensitive and swollen is the name of the game it seems.

Doctor’s appointment is in just less than 2 weeks now and I can hardly wait!  My friend Jessica told me we’ll get to hear the heartbeat! (I told one friend and Alan told one friend the week we found out! We just had to tell someone!)  I assumed we’d do the ultrasound, but I guess I didn’t think about the heartbeat.  With how emotional I am right now I’m sure I will cry getting to experience that. The tears seem to come consistently right now.  But…..just two more weeks until we get to see our little one for the first time! I am so excited!  I hope by then this morning sickness will have calmed down as well.