You know how I’ve been having a hard time sleeping, right? Well one night I was awoken by a dog barking in the distance. And with my can’t sleep well thing going on and waking up fully every 2 to 3 hours I was mightily pissed. I was so mad that I was thinking about and I mean really seriously thinking about going outside in the middle of the night 3 a.m. in the morning and finding the rude inconsiderate person who was allowing their dog to bark and bark and bark. I was going to find the bastard and ring and ring and ring their doorbell and give them crazy pregnant woman hell. But this was back a couple of weeks ago when I was in the throes of my 24 hour morning sickness so needless to say that didn’t happen. Good thing I guess, but I really wanted to give them hell, crazy irrational I’m pregnant and my hormones are all crazy kind of hell.

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We went for our ultrasound on Monday. It’s just taken me this long to write about it because I wanted to scan the pictures in. We were with the nurse almost a whole hour. Yep a whole hour almost! She kept pushing that ultrasound thing into my belly. Taking measurements and putting little notes into the computer while Alan and I watched in wonderment at seeing the baby move. Sometimes the nurse pushed really hard. Like does that make it freaking work better or something? Is that in the manual? “Pushing hard enough to make patient wince will make this machine work better.” Yeah I could have done without that.

I don’t know if an ultrasound usually takes that long. She was measuring the baby’s head and the thigh bone, looking at the heart, pointing out what we were looking at, and every so often she was saying oh the baby’s arm is in the way. And she would have me turn to one side or the other trying to get a better view. And the baby was moving around this way and that and sucking her thumb.

Did you see that? Did you catch what I just wrote there? I said sucking HER thumb. Yes HER thumb. My baby had a hamburger in the ultrasound. The nurse explained that the lines that made the image we were looking at look like a hamburger meant we were having a little girl. A LITTLE GIRL. I’m pregnant with a girl!

Now I can knit cute little baby girl things…ahh that is when I can get back to my routine of knitting…hey but I have incentive now!

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I’m back in the saddle. What am I talking about? Today is the first day I have gotten back to my old routine of reading blogs. I actually read blogs today! Actually felt up to sitting in front of my computer!! MY COMPUTER! It’s actually on!! And I read every single blog I like reading. Not just my favorites but all the little ‘I’ll read you once in a while’ blogs too. Now if I can get back into the more important habit of balancing my checkbook…

I am very anal about my bills. Didcha know that? I use Quicken and I like keeping track of everything. EVERYTHING! And since my morning sickness hit how many weeks and weeks ago…I haven’t entered in any receipts into my Quicken file. I keep hoping that Bridgette will somehow magically read my mind and do my receipts for me. Why such a strange thought? Well I’ve known her forever so she should be able to read my mind. I always expect her to. And why her specifically? Well she’s an accountant. That’s why. Ok I just went into a weird rambling crazy post there. So ummm…I think I’ll stop typing now.

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So I had my last acupuncture appointment last week. And I’m feeling pretty good sort of. Much much better then the crappy weeks earlier but still not comfortable. But the great thing is I’m not nauseous and the yucky taste in my mouth isn’t that bad. I can actually watch the food network again without wanting to vomit and even though I don’t have much of an appetite I’m not scared to eat anymore.

But I’ve been having a hell of a time sleeping. Most nights consist of tossing and turning. I used to love sleeping but now it’s just uncomfortable and unsatisfying. And I know as I get bigger that will only get worse. Gawd it’s hard making a person. I know I’ve heard many mothers say you forget about all the unpleasant stuff once the baby is born but man being in it right now…this sucks. Right now at this moment I can say I DO NOT want to do this again and I can’t imagine forgetting all this. So we’ll see what happens.

So, I’ll end today’s post by saying I’m really excited. We have an ultrasound appointment coming up on Monday. I’m hoping to find out the sex of the baby!! I can’t wait!

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I can’t believe I didn’t even think to mention this in my earlier post…so preoccupied I’ve been with feeling like crap. We went to the hospital again yesterday. You know I’ve gone to the doctor every week this month. Well anyhoo…no keetones. Yay! And and and…I’ve gained weight! I’m back up to the weight I was at my first visit. Yippee yay!

Then this scary thing happened. The nurse went to listen to the baby’s heartbeat with that microphone machine and she couldn’t find it. I was soooo freaked out. She then went and got an ultrasound machine and found the baby no problem. And our baby has a head now!! Well not now NOW because I’m sure the baby’s head has been there for a while but I mean we saw the baby’s head and it actually looked like a head! And the nurse said the heart was beating (I could barely tell) and I was like really? and then she said the baby moved (I just thought she had moved the camera thing-a-ma-bob but hey she said it was the baby) so yay yay again. Our baby has a head!!

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This morning I woke up and actually felt normal. NORMAL! No acidy stomach or nausea. Didn’t last long though. As soon as I started eating I felt like crap again. The horrible taste in my mouth that went away last week didn’t stay away long enough. The doctor says it’s acid reflux. Something with the hormones in pregnant women that loosens up the I don’t remember what he called it that makes acid reflux and heartburn more common when you’re pregnant. It makes eating so hard. Every time I finish eating it’s just yucky gross taste.

Helen was reading somewhere online about a women with a metallic taste in her mouth after she ate. She said dry mouth gum by the toothpaste section helped. I don’t have a metallic taste in my mouth but I wonder if the gum would work for me as well? I don’t know what kind of gum she was talking about. We went to the grocery store today and looked for gum by where the toothpaste was and couldn’t find any dry mouth gum.

And I’ve already tried regular gum. It doesn’t work. I chew on it maybe for a minute and then that taste is back and I have to spit the gum out before I gag. Alan says I go through gum like crazy.

Same with brushing my teeth. Doesn’t work. I feel like gagging while I’m brushing and then when I’m done my mouth feels clean and fresh for a couple of seconds but the taste comes back immediately. Which would make sense with acid reflux because it’s stomach acid and no matter how clean my mouth is it doesn’t stop the stomach acids.

I’ve tried rolaids too. They don’t seem to really help. Let me give it another try.

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Oh MY GAWD! After my acupuncture appointment on Tuesday I went home and after a successful bout of fighting not to vomit I ate food and IT TASTED NORMAL! NORMAL! Like food used to taste. That is an amazing thing. It is. When Helen was pregnant food never tasted normal, not the entire pregnancy. So this is a big thing.

I’ve been forcing down more of that tea from the acupuncturist and I’ve been feeling better. Still not normal but hey I’m pregnant…I’m not supposed to feel normal, unfortunately. So I have another appointment on Friday and hopefully I’ll be feeling better then ever after that.

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