Preggy Lady Flu

Urgh - got the lurgie this week. It's all snowy outside so I'm definitely confined to the house all weekend. Am being a moany nightmare. Can't remember the last time I got through a cold without lemsip but am determined to go drug free. And I need to keep my caffeine rationing for chocolate. Was relying on Olbas oil until a Google search put me off using that too. Is NOTHING safe?

On 17 November, I heard the baby's heartbeat. It sounded like a train. I'd put on 1 kilo since my booking in appointment on 27 September. Although midwife says they don't pay too much attention to weight these days as it's a fairly meaningless indicator of health. I guess unless you are overweight, they just leave you to it. And I don't really do kilos - I think it's a couple of pounds. Today I am 9 stone, 9.5 pounds.

Also at the midwife I found out that my blood type is A-. Which only 7% of people in the UK have. The rhesus negative status means I need an injection of some blood product to make sure my body doesn't reject baby number 2. My brain might reject the notion of baby number 2 before it gets that far.

So I was a bit obsessed with blood for a few days. I haven't ever given blood so am feeling a bit guilty. I will do as soon as I'm allowed.


I'm now into the 19th week and am supposed to be able to feel the baby from any time now. Nothing so far. It's supposed to feel like wind bubbles. Lovely.

(The vomiting continues - three times in a week, but not going to dwell on it any further. Well not much.)

I have a bump now. It's at the point where people might as well have an 'is she?' speech bubble above their heads. It's definitely still at the stage where most people don't ask. But someone from another department called my office to ask after a fleeting glance at me. Can't wait until it's really obvious.


Is she or isn't she?

Intermittent Regurgitation

I can't wait until I have something more meaningful than vomit to discuss here. In reality, it's still the dominant theme. Still, it's only every week or so now (although I feel nauseous every day). Since my last post, I've been unlucky on 29 October which was after a gap of 15 days. I put that down to being in work at 7.15am and had decided that it was only a blip. But unfortunately I was sick again this morning (and that was after a very close call outside the butcher's yesterday morning). Had to leap out of the shower all soapy (today - not yesterday outside the butcher's) and it was farewell to the over priced Marks and Spencer, folate-rich Cantaloupe melon I'd eaten entirely for the baby's benefit. That's gratitude for you.

I'm going to start recording my weight from now on. Not any more interesting than sick to anyone other than myself but that won't stop me. I've been a steady 9 stone, 7.5 pounds since the beginning (which BY THE WAY midwife, gives me a BMI of 23, NOT 25). I am now 9 stone, 6.5 pounds which I'll put down to the aforementioned spewing. I'm supposed to put on a pound a week during the 2nd trimester.

Other than that, not much to report except a small bump that no one but me and D can notice. No appointments until 17 November so that will be 5 weeks between appointments with no way to be sure that everything is okay. Oh, except for the puking.


But it really needs to stop. There was only so much barfing on Lost and I'm seriously running out of visual aids.