13-5-2010 - 8 w 1 d This and That

My mood while writing this blog: Human

For the first time this week I am feeling a bit human and am appreciating a bit of a break from feeling totally awful. I have still been throwing up, catching snoozes under my desk at work once a day, feeling like I want to faint at times, have heartburn and overall just feel generally yuk. Not so much today though.

A more recent symptom is sciatic nerve pain. Not for the first time but it is more prominent although not severe. It mostly occurs when standing up from my desk at work (which has me limping a bit when walking) or sometimes when I am lying in a certain way. Moving around gets rid of it though.

Also, for the last couple of days, I occasionally have this sensation of stretching in the very lower part of my abdomen right around by pubic bone. The only visual description I can give, is that it is as if someone is filling a balloon with water, but extremely slowly, and it is getting to that stage where the balloon actually starts rounding and you can see the plastic of the balloon starting to thin as it starts to expand - that is what I feel. It also feels like the 'balloon' is pressing against my pubic bone and want to escape. LOL.

I was having such a laugh. I receive a weekly email from a pregnancy website giving weekly updates on the progress of your pregnancy and baby. This weeks said 'you might start experiencing some symptoms now' and then proceed to give details of said symptoms. I was like, 'What the hell! I have been having most of them for the last 4 weeks!'. I still find it amazing how our pregnancies differ from woman to woman and even from pregnancy to pregnancy.

I am on my 2nd last box of progesterone. It was suppose to be the last, but the nurse understood my reluctance to let go of it just yet and said she will give me another 1 to keep me until after the scan on Monday. The thing is, I am planning on scaling down on my doses, so instead of taking 2 a day I will take only 1 which means this last box can last for 2 weeks. Hopefully it will also help to calm the m/s a bit. I know less symptoms will be more difficult emotionally though, but it won't be as hectic as stopping cold turkey (I sound like an addict)

The great thing is that I am 2 months pregnant (that sounds a lot more impressive than 8 weeks). WOOOHOOO! Also, Monday I have my 2nd scan and am eager to see a 8 w 5 d old baby for the first time ever :-)