Morning (aka ALL-DAY-EVERYDAY) sickness

There are definitely many advantages to knowing that you are expecting from an early stage in the pregnancy: having all the time to prepare, keeping your body as healthy as possible, sharing the special secret with your partner and being giddy about it for as long as possible. However, there are some, in my opinion, disadvantages to knowing very early as well: having to keep that special secret for several weeks on end and not exclaiming "I'M PREGNANT!!!" to your loved ones, acquaintances, or the complete strangers that cross my path every day! Far and away the most difficult aspect of knowing of my pregnancy early on has been waiting on morning sickness to kick in or not kick it. Kick in it did indeed! At about week 5, or the week of January 21st, I was engulfed in a tidal wave of nausea, vomiting, major food aversions, exhaustion and heightened sense of smell (which I only say to emphasize that even the slighted whiff of something unpleasant, sends me into a heaving frenzy). Currently, at 10 weeks along, I am lying here in bed (at 11am on a Monday morning) wondering how in the world I am going to make it through the next few weeks with this morning sickness. I am hoping and praying that it will end by the beginning of my second trimester. But, when I look at the babies in their ultrasound picture, I am reminded that it is a positive reminder of their healthy development. Joe has been such a trooper and continues to crack me up through this initial part of our journey as parents. For his sake I hope he gets to see the "glowing," maternal side of me rather than my head stuck over the toilet bowl :)

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