Saturday, March 3, 2007

it never ends

every time i think the morning sickness is gone, bam! it's back. a couple of weeks ago i was gloating because i thought it was over, but alas i am being punished for that. the anti-nausea meds help with the random vomiting, like from seeing and/or touching tissues. but i still have not gotten my appetite back. i want to eat human food, i really do, but every time i try i pay for it later! spent a good bit of this morning hunched over the kitchen sink (couldn't even make it to the bathroom on time!) because the orange juice i drank just didn't sit well. so i had a sleeve of saltines for breakfast/lunch today. yum. i am trying really hard to get enough protein since the "tan" diet doesn't offer too much. i've had more milk in the past 3 weeks than i have had my entire life. i hate milk. but the pints of chocolate milk they sell in the cafeteria at work have 16 grams of protein each - nearly half of my daily goal. earlier this week, our foster beagle sunshine wasn't feeling good. she woke me up at 5:30 in the morning to take her outside. she's really insistent so i stumbled out of bed and took her outside. the other hounds followed us down a few minutes later so they went out too. it took 15 minutes before i could get them back in the house. sunshine was eating grass the whole time she was out there. thought maybe some water would help so i filled their bowl and flopped back in bed. minutes later, before i could even doze off, i heard the unmistakable sound of a beagle eating something they're not supposed to eat. i figured sunshine was eating tissues out of the trash so i tried to ignore it but a few minutes later i could tell she was eating something fabric. i found her downstairs in the dining room, where she had chewed a substantial hole in our dining room area rug. a very expensive (though i got a great bargain!) rug. grrrr. i yelled at her and tossed her in her crate. she knew i was pissed. then it got worse - i found three vomit puddles in the living room left by my darling sunshine. i have a hard time cleaning up vomit when i'm not preggers so this was a disaster. i had to run to the bathroom during and after each puddle to go throw up myself. lucky jeremy was already at the hospital for the day so he got to miss out on this whole adventure! my goal for this week to find some pants that fit! all the maternity pants i've bought need to go to the tailor to get hemmed so that's on my agenda. krissy also found some cute pants for shorties at gap.com so i need to check those out too! got a bunch of tops from oldnavy.com last week since they were having a big maternity sale - 25% off plus free shipping! i also need to start looking for a dress for this summer since i've got a couple of big events to attend - jeremy's graduation and the chris/katie nuptials! :)

2 comments:

crankymommy said...

Kiwi, I am so sorry you are still struggling with evil evil morning sickness. Have you tried Ensure? It's full of vitamins and protein and easy to stomach. Plain oatmeal is good too.

On a happier note, good luck with maternity dress hunting! I got the red dress I wore to Buck and Beth's wedding at Gap Maternity. It made me look ginormous, but it was SO comfortable! It's a size L, I'd be happy to send it to you if you wanted to try it out...

kiwi said...

ooh - ensure. i need to give that a try! i'm back with the saltines these days. i have a sleeve of them in my purse for emergency situations :)

so far so good with dress shopping - old navy just introduced their spring line and hopefully gap won't be far behind!

saw little eva's announcement in the wake magazine yesterday! yeah eva! we like it when we know the peeps who have babies!