The 1st Tri

BEHOLD! The 1st Trimester Monologue:

The first symptom I noticeably noticed (genius) was extreme exhaustion (like 10 hours of sleep a night and a 2 hour nap during the day). Also, the day I took the pregnancy test, but before I thought I should, I couldn't finish my egg and spinach scrambled eggs. My other first symptoms were increased thirst and decreased appetite.

Pregnancy nausea: I never threw up. Weeks 5-13 was a constant battle of trying to stay ahead of my nausea. If I was hungry, I felt nauseated, but nothing ever sounded good, so I was pretty hungry most of the time, and therefore nauseated. So basically every time I was "craving" something, I ate it, which resulted in a LOT of fast food and not very much cooking at home. Poor Joshua suffered the most, because I didn't make any meals or buy any groceries (save pickles and cheese-its) for 8 weeks.

Cravings: I really am disappointed that I never had any crazy cravings! I would randomly crave a Crunchwrap supreme, a california roll, potato chips, or trolli gummi worms, but it was never anything awesome like a PB&Mayo sandwich or sauerkraut cupcakes. Currently, my cravings are for tart candies like: smarties, laffy taffy, sour gummy worms, sweet tarts, skittles, sour starbursts, and the list could go on. My tongue is paying the price.

The funniest craving I had was for roast beef. I wanted it SO BAD one night, I went to the grocery store and bought 3 pot roasts and 1 package of instant just warm it up pot roast. Josh was a little shocked when he came home and saw all that beef in the fridge.

The nausea started tapering off a couple weeks ago, and life has been soooo great without it. I do, however, have a whole other list of new symptoms I get to enjoy. More about that later!

KC