That Too Much Buffet Feeling

Do you know that feeling you get after gorging yourself at a Buffet where you absolutely had to taste a little bit everything? You know the one where you wonder if your pants are going to stay zippered and buttoned? The one where you think I have to get up and walk along with I'm not sure if I can get up and walk... For a few hours afterward, you tell yourself I'm never, ever going to do this again. Well, pregnancy at a certain point seems to be that feeling on a constant basis. I'm positive my insides are squashed because I got that after too much buffet food feeling and along with that the "I wish I hadn't eaten that burps." The ghost of meals past happens after every meal to the point where you start wishing you didn't have to eat anymore. Sadly, not only do you have to eat on a regular basis you have to eat constantly and very small amount because when you don't eat your nauseated not to mention you are essentially eating for someone else, not that eating is any better because just after I eat, I'm also nauseated. Pregnancy, joy.

I had such optimistic hopes about my pregnancy from the moment I thought of the possibility to 7 weeks in. I was excited and it seemed easy with a little bit a nausea and occasionally I would throw something up, but it wasn't bad. I would wake up between 3 and 5 am every morning and accomplish a lot including painting really neat pictures of my little ones current life stage. The possibilities seemed amazing. I couldn't wait until the pregnancy progressed and I would get a sense of my little one. I was excited about not having a menstrual cycle and the painful cramps that went with it. I thought I was going to enjoy every minute of it all. I was deluded.

'Cause on week 8, I started throwing up. One night after some Korean Noodles, I threw up so hard that I was blowing noodles out of my nose. I threw up several times a day for two weeks and was told any day it was magically go away except it only got worse. The next two weeks I started throwing up every hour sometimes every 20-30mins while I was awake. At least I stopped after I went to bed for the night. At the same time, I was for the most part throwing up very specific things like the dill off the dill rice, or the cilantro garnish on my beans. I wasn't dehydrated, I wasn't losing weight, and I was keeping certain things down though I never knew what would stay down and what would not. I threw up oranges, apples, tangerines, anything dark green, then it would change. I could eat something for one meal and the next meal I ate it I would throw it up. My labs were great, my blood pressure is great, I just have this little vomiting problem.

It's weird to feel so good now when I am still throwing up, but only a few times a week which is a big improvement, and I'm no longer having problems with certain foods/food groups. I'm loving the ability to eat salad again! Just in time for the lack of room in my tummy to kick in.