My little squirt is currently about the size of a peach. I know I have mentioned before that I didn’t plan on having any more kids, but you can hardly expect me to commit to decisions I make while in the throws of morning sickness or sleepless nights with a newborn.
We found out about baby number six a couple days after Christmas. Less than a week later I was slammed with morning sickness (so I would have found out soon enough even if I hadn’t thought to take a pregnancy test as soon as humanly possible). Since then I have been carefully overseeing the total destruction of my home. It’s amazing how a few weeks (or months) on the couch can put your family contributions in perspective.
For the record… all of the morning sickness tips? Bogus. Clean eating? Nope. Magnesium oil? Nope. Legumes? Double nope. Every time I thought I found something that helped ease my misery, I would find that the nausea just hid itself in a pocket somewhere to up to hit me with twice the force the next day. The only thing that works for me is white knuckling it while I wait it out. And I had to wait a long, LONG time. In fact, while I find that my head is starting to come out of the fog, I am still waiting. I’m still sick but I am also capable of doing a few chores and occasionally preparing a meal. My inability to exercise by doing anything more substantial then walking to the bathroom and my reliance on quick and easy prepackaged food that an 11 year old can prepare has wreaked havoc on my waistline (as if my expanding uterus and complete inability to “suck it in” wasn’t enough).
I went through several various anti-nausea medications. I had high hopes for Diclegis, which is a newer phenomenon, but the week I was on it I couldn’t keep anything down. Zofran was a no go either. As soon as I switched back to good old fashioned Unisom and B6 over the counter cocktail (which is odd considering that is what the Diclegis formulation was supposed to be) I could keep things down on a regular basis.
All in all we are extremely excited to be welcoming the new Wilson in six months 
