I have had the morning sickness, well all day sickness. I have been told that its a good sign. Good sign or not it sucks! I am the biggest sissy when it comes to throwing up. I now have a collection of suckers and teas to help with it.
When we moved up here last fall I had planned a trip back to Utah for my moms spring break. It finally came around and so Turkey and me loaded up the car and took off to Utah. We planned on staying a week. I had gotten the okay to travel so we were excited to go. Turkey is such a great traveller. She is perfectly content in her car seat hanging out. We sang Princess music for most of the way. I have an Uncle and Aunt who live in Montana so we stop and see them when we go through town. Turkey loves to see them and loves to see their dog Sam.
When we finally got to Utah we were both excited and exhausted. We had a great week home visiting everyone. I ended up getting sick while I was there. I made a midnight visit to the ER and was put on bed rest. I went and visited my doctor in Utah for a follow up and she gave me the okay to travel home as long as I agreed to being on bed rest once I got home. We took our time driving home. Once we finally got home I took it super easy.
Luckily I have some amazing friends up here. I joined a group of oilfield wives a little while back. I have gone to some of the activities and have made some friends and have had some play dates. It is an amazing group of women. They called me the second day of being back and asked what they could do. The fact they thought of me and were willing to help me caused me to tear up a bit. (ok I won't lie, I cried) They have been very helpful. They have helped clean house, do laundry, made me some dinners, gone grocery shopping for me, and even took Turkey for a little while so I could nap. I went to the doctor up here and he gave me a slight lift on the bed rest. I still couldn't lift anything or do much but I could get up and walk more.
Over Easter I did a little to much and was put back on bed rest and told not to do anything but stick my feet up. It is very hard to do nothing all day. I have always wanted to have a day or so where I could just lounge all day and not do a thing. Not that I have doctors orders to do such thing I can't do it! I have a couple of reasons of why, first I have a very active 4 year old who requires things like food and entertainment, second I get very bored easy, and third my husband works 12 hour days and I need to at least keep the house in working order. It blows up if it is not picked up daily and things aren't done. I have been very blessed with a very helpful 4 year old. Turkey helps me with picking up stuff and making sure things are clean for when James comes home.
I never imagined that pregnancy was going to be this challenging. I knew that if I ever got pregnant that I would have my struggles with my body. I have been lucky to feel every time the baby grows. Which is pretty cool and also hurts sometimes. I like being able to feel my baby growing inside. The doctors have informed me I will feel everything through my whole pregnancy.
I have heard horror stories of the emotions that come along with being pregnant. I have lucked out. I don't get angry or mad, I don't have random emotional explosions, or anything crazy. I do however cry really really easy. I do cry at random things such as I dropped my pretzel in the mall while I was home and I burst into tears. My mother quietly walked off and Turkey stood there and stared at me and told me "Life Happens." The women behind the counter felt bad and gave me a new pretzel. I am not a person who cries. I am usually tough. I now can't watch certain shows on TV because they make me cry if anything sad or sappy happens. Example if someone gets voted off of American Idol and there is a hint of a tear in any ones eye I start crying. Turkey has started to just tell me to be calm and that everything will be okay.
I will try and keep up better with my posts and to keep everyone informed on whats going on.
