I could list a thousand reasons as to why I should've started this blog sooner. But in an effort not to bore you with my whining about fatigue, being a mom of a toddler and my 2nd bout with Hyperemesis, I'll just say I feel that now is a better time to share my thoughts, feelings and emotions.
For those of you who are wondering who I am, my name is Wendy. I'm a former (active) makeup artist currently on hiatus due to my "growing" situation. I write from time to time to express my thoughts, and since I tend to have a lot of them these days, I might as well share.
Let's see...I guess i should start off by saying that if you haven't figured it already I'm pregnant (again). I didn't write much about my first pregnancy because the Hyperemesis was so bad I could barely see straight let alone write. Hyperemesis is pregnancy disease that causes severe nausea and vomiting. Only 1% of women get it, and no this is not just your first trimester morning sickness, this is morning, afternoon, evening, every second sickness or otherwise referred to as morning sickness on steroids. Yeah...it's that serious. Anyways, thankfully it wasn't as bad this time around since I discovered the H.E.R foundation online, where I found a nice medicine cocktail that brought my vomiting to a screeching halt. Hallelujah! And now that I'm able to eat I feel like I've been blessed to enjoy this pregnancy and I am ever so grateful to the Almighty for that.
So how am I doing? Not so bad.
Tomorrow I will be 22 weeks, so i'm more than halfway done. I can't say I won't be glad when this is over though cuz that would be a lie.
I'm not super big. I gained all of 15 lbs so far. I really don't want to gain more than 30 lbs tops. I mean who the heck wants to fight off 40, 50 or 60 lbs? Maybe it works for you Beyonce but, Not I! I already had a stack of clothes in my closet snickering at me from the aftermath of my first pregnancy. That weight is hard to get off past the age of 30.
I'm hungry in this trimester but not super hungry. I eat whatever the baby craves. Shrimp pasta, vanilla greek yogurt, frosted shredded wheat, burrito bowls from chipotle (yum), crab cakes, collard greens (the baby likes salt) and my not-so-proud-of guilty pleasure of McDonalds sausage egg and cheese biscuit, Mcmuffin or Mcgriddles every morning. (hides face in shame).
I don't always take my pre-natal gummies because sometimes the aftertaste makes me wanna barf. I drink Oj, cranberry juice, green tea ginerale and coconut water (my new fav) to wash it all down. Water is sometimey. Some days good, some days barf.
I enjoy going home to my darling hubby, the good Minister D-Dub and my brown sugar diva Noey (short for Noelle). She is almost 18 months and watching her grow and develop is amazing. I especially like this phase of her life because she has become infatuated with her new bestie (mommy :) and mommy's growing tummy which she kisses and points to and says "baby?". I look at her and my heart melts when I think that she will be the big sister of our new edition which I will refer to as "pootie-too".
I try not to complain, but I do sometimes. That would be when I think about how my summer is shot since my due date is 9/25. And days like today when I didn't feel like getting out of the bed to go to work to pretend to be a person.
Or when the laundry needs to get done, meals need to be cooked, daycare's need to be toured, bills need to be paid and love needs to be made all because I'm every woman, it's all in me.....
These are the days where I secretly long for a beach where I can put my feet in the sand or float away in the deep blue with no fears of sharks or jelly fish. Whatever happened to the Calgon commercials?
So for now I'll just say I'm doing just fine :o)
Toodles~
For those of you who are wondering who I am, my name is Wendy. I'm a former (active) makeup artist currently on hiatus due to my "growing" situation. I write from time to time to express my thoughts, and since I tend to have a lot of them these days, I might as well share.
Let's see...I guess i should start off by saying that if you haven't figured it already I'm pregnant (again). I didn't write much about my first pregnancy because the Hyperemesis was so bad I could barely see straight let alone write. Hyperemesis is pregnancy disease that causes severe nausea and vomiting. Only 1% of women get it, and no this is not just your first trimester morning sickness, this is morning, afternoon, evening, every second sickness or otherwise referred to as morning sickness on steroids. Yeah...it's that serious. Anyways, thankfully it wasn't as bad this time around since I discovered the H.E.R foundation online, where I found a nice medicine cocktail that brought my vomiting to a screeching halt. Hallelujah! And now that I'm able to eat I feel like I've been blessed to enjoy this pregnancy and I am ever so grateful to the Almighty for that.
So how am I doing? Not so bad.
Tomorrow I will be 22 weeks, so i'm more than halfway done. I can't say I won't be glad when this is over though cuz that would be a lie.
I'm not super big. I gained all of 15 lbs so far. I really don't want to gain more than 30 lbs tops. I mean who the heck wants to fight off 40, 50 or 60 lbs? Maybe it works for you Beyonce but, Not I! I already had a stack of clothes in my closet snickering at me from the aftermath of my first pregnancy. That weight is hard to get off past the age of 30.
I'm hungry in this trimester but not super hungry. I eat whatever the baby craves. Shrimp pasta, vanilla greek yogurt, frosted shredded wheat, burrito bowls from chipotle (yum), crab cakes, collard greens (the baby likes salt) and my not-so-proud-of guilty pleasure of McDonalds sausage egg and cheese biscuit, Mcmuffin or Mcgriddles every morning. (hides face in shame).
I don't always take my pre-natal gummies because sometimes the aftertaste makes me wanna barf. I drink Oj, cranberry juice, green tea ginerale and coconut water (my new fav) to wash it all down. Water is sometimey. Some days good, some days barf.
I enjoy going home to my darling hubby, the good Minister D-Dub and my brown sugar diva Noey (short for Noelle). She is almost 18 months and watching her grow and develop is amazing. I especially like this phase of her life because she has become infatuated with her new bestie (mommy :) and mommy's growing tummy which she kisses and points to and says "baby?". I look at her and my heart melts when I think that she will be the big sister of our new edition which I will refer to as "pootie-too".
I try not to complain, but I do sometimes. That would be when I think about how my summer is shot since my due date is 9/25. And days like today when I didn't feel like getting out of the bed to go to work to pretend to be a person.
Or when the laundry needs to get done, meals need to be cooked, daycare's need to be toured, bills need to be paid and love needs to be made all because I'm every woman, it's all in me.....
These are the days where I secretly long for a beach where I can put my feet in the sand or float away in the deep blue with no fears of sharks or jelly fish. Whatever happened to the Calgon commercials?
So for now I'll just say I'm doing just fine :o)
Toodles~
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