Making up for NO Morning Sickness!

Let me feel you in on what has been going on. So today I am 22 weeks and 4 days. And I never had morning sickness. Just a little nausea on occasion. So I thought I was going to have an easy pregnancy. Little did I know something was going to hit me and hit me big time. Well this past Saturday I started to get a headache and my ears felt like they had pressure. And I was burning up, yet I was cold. I was laying under 2 blankets and I still couldn't stop shaking. So I knew something had to be up, since I'm not usually like that. I take my temperature, and sure enough I had one. I was worried about it, since it was a high fever like 100.1. So I just lay down for a little while. Well that night I did  not get much sleep, I woke up at 1:00 sweating, I was thinking yes my fever is breaking. Well I couldn't fall back to sleep, so I'm up for the night. So now it's early Sunday morning and I re-check my temperature and somehow I still have a fever. Which is crazy since I was sweating. Well Mike comes home from work, so I usually go to my parents house on the weekend to see them and let him have his time to sleep. I still wasn't feeling myself by now. But I still want to work on my summer tan so I get my swimsuit on and go lay out in the pool, which didn't last very long. I got out not even an hour later. I was so cold again, I decided to take a nice warm shower. I think that was a big mistake, it made me colder. I ended up taking a nap and waking up sweating again. Well I call Mike and tell him what's going on, by the time he got to my parent's house to eat dinner, my fever had spiked up to over 101.0. I was starting to get scared now for the baby. So I called my doctor's office expecting to leave a voicemail with a nurse on call and have them call me back in regards to what I should do/take to make the fever go down. Well I actually got a doctor on call. His name was Dr. Brown (hum, I wonder if he invented the baby bottles, hehe) I didn't recognize that name with any of the doctors at Emerald Coast where I go to. So I figured it may just be any OBGYN in Bay County on call that gets the phone call. So I tell him what is going on, and he told me to just take some Tylenol for the fever. And if I still feel not my entire self on Monday morning I should call my doctor's office to see if they can get me in. Sure enough I didn't get much sleep Sunday night/Monday morning. I was up again at 1:00 in the morning. I wait till my doctor's office was opened and called, they asked if I could come in at 2:00. I'm thinking dang that is a long time I have to wait while feeling like crap and not knowing what is going on. Mike needed to sleep, since he worked the night before and had to work that night as well. So I had my mom go with me. Since I had been so hot all day I wore some shorts to my appointment, BIG MISTAKE. I was SOOOO COLD. My poor little toes were starting to turn purple and so was my legs. Well I get to see a different doctor, since I was a work in. I ended up seeing Dr. Pennington, she is really nice. Well I tell her all my symptoms, and she knew right off it was a sinus infection. So she prescribes me a Z Pack. And I was told I should start to feel better in the next 24 hours. And gave me a doctor's excuse for the next 2 days to be off work so I could rest. I start to take the Z Pack that night after dinner. That night I go to bed hoping that I would wake up and feel much better. And again I wake up 1:00 freezing/burning up. I take some more Tylenol hoping to ease the fever. Still no sleep for me that night. By now I have a fever up and down for the past 4 days. Which I have never had a fever last that long. So for pretty much all day Tuesday I was like a zombie. I really haven't had that much of an appetite either, but I'm trying to drink lots of fluids to keep from dehydrating. By Wednesday morning my temperature had reached over 102.4. And Lexi hadn't been moving that much like she normally does. So I started to get worried. I again call my doctor's office asking what should I do. Well the nurse says she will have to e-mail the doctor and tell her what's going on and see if I can come in. So 2 hours later I still haven't heard from them, I call back and tell them about not having lots of movement from the baby, then that got them going, I was able to come in and have an ultrasound to make sure she was moving and she was fine. Thank God she was, she must have just been in a spot where I couldn't feel the movement. We did find out she the 1 pound and 3 oz right now. And she is very flexible she had her foot up to her face holding it with her hand. And the other hand was behind her head. She did not want to show us her face, so no 3D pictures for that. But we did get a picture of her waving at us. It was such a relief to know she was okay and still moving. So after that's all done I sit down in the waiting room. This time I came prepared and wore pants so I wouldn't be freezing. Yea right, I should of worn the shorts, I was so hot. Finally I get into the room and they weigh me, I had lost a pound since my last appointment on Monday. But this time no temperature. It had finally gone down, but I knew it wasn't for long though. So the doctor says I need something more powerful, so she prescribed me with augmentin. Well today I was so weak but I did get a full nights rest last night, that was nice. I hadn't had that sine Friday night/Saturday morning. But I still had a fever, so I stayed home yet again today. And pretty much have just been resting and drinking fluids. So I'm hoping tomorrow I can finally go back to work. This is not time off that I like, this has been hell. I have never been this miserable before, this crap is worse than when I had the flu. Well that about sums it up. So I guess since I didn't have any morning sickness this has taken up for it. Now if I can just get better and start feeling like myself again everything will be much better. Oh yea another big important thing, on Monday was mine and Mike's 2 year wedding anniversary. I told him that I think I should have a do over for it. Even though we hadn't plan to do anything that day since I had to work and that night since he had to work. It just made the day feel like any normal day, not like the anniversary of one of the best days of my life. So we are planning for when I feel better to go to the Melting Pot for our yearly tradition. :) So that is all until next time.

For the first time...

Today I am 20 weeks and 4 days. I'm half way there. I still think back to when we first found out we were going to be parents. The time has flown by. It's almost half way through July. I was thinking the other day, my next day off from work is Labor Day which is September 5th. Then Veterans Day in November, then I'm out on maternity leave. I am so not ready for her to be here. Yes we have LOTS of clothes. I have been buying diapers here and there and some wipes. But we don't have any of the big stuff yet. I do have a baby shower set for September. I can't wait for that. I'm sure Lexi will get lots of nice things.


Well I can finally feel her move around and kick me. I wasn't to sure at first if what I was feeling was really her, or just gas. lol. But then it kept happening more and more. So I realized it really was her. Mike has gotten to feel her once. She's not that powerful yet for him to feel her all the time. Yesterday she had the hiccups in the morning, afternoon and night. It was so weird. But I loved it.


We did go to our check up on July 7th, and the ultrasound tech confirmed we were still having a girl. She wasn't very active in the morning, but we did get to see and 4D picture of her. Not a very good picture, since she doesn't look so much like a baby right now. But it was still neat to see.