Pregnancy Journal: month #2

• Second Month 11/09/09 to 12/09/09: the nausea, first ultrasound…

Big surprise: very strong nausea. I didn’t have it a whole lot while expecting Lila so I thought I was just lucky and it wasn’t going to happen in any future pregnancies… It goes to show every pregnancy is different. I’ve heard of women that got really sick during pregnancy that they were scared to get pregnant again because they thought they would be just as sick during the next pregnancy. And I think the thing I heard the most was “it’s probably a boy, since you didn’t feel too much nausea with Lila”.

Seriously, I don’t know how some women go through it during the whole 9 months. I couldn’t eat anything and I think the toughest part was having to cook for Lila. I felt so bad for her because some days I just couldn’t look at the food, never mind feel the smell of it. So we got lots of take out and the poor thing ate a lot of the “jarred food”…poor thing! It just so happened that she started the “I pick what I eat” phase and was very into fruits and not into food at all! As a result of the nausea I lost 6 pounds (I can’t say I was upset about that). Luckily, I have a very “strong stomach” and I don’t throw up easily; otherwise I probably would have lost too much weight and, most likely, would have felt crappier. Energy-wise, I’ve been ok. Sure, sometimes I manage to nap while Lila is napping but that’s rare because I always have something to do, but that’s not bothering me as much as the nausea…so, YAY!

The highlight of this month is that we got to see the baby for the first time! Our ultrasound was great, the baby was measuring just right and we were given a due date of JULY 9, 2010. I’m very happy about that too because not only the weather is very nice, but there’s absolutely NO ONE in our family from July. What a relief! January, February, March, April, August, October, November and December are the busy months!

Baby's first picture!