This is quite long - be warned.
Well I am now 12 weeks pregnant, and have lost 7kg since the start of my pregnancy.
I am slightly overweight for my age and height (a lot to do with what I have been through over the last few years). Yeh on one hand I'm glad I've lost a bit of weight, but kind of worried at the same time.
My first pregnancy went quite smooth, I only had 2 weeks of morning sickness @ 3 months in, and that involved yacking in the morning then feeling fine the rest of the time. I also had one night in hospital due to dehydration (couldn't keep anything down, not even water, had to go on a drip).
This pregnancy, I have had bad morning sickness, although it's more all day sickness. I practically walk around the house with a bucket, as I constantly just feel like I want to throw up. I drink a lot of water, as it's pretty much all I can drink (good thing in a way since I've almost given up coke (soft drink guys!! lol). I barely eat, as whenver I think about food, it just puts me off and makes me want to yack. Then because I don't eat, I yack (mind you I yack nothing most of the time, just bile or it's dry heaving). So I end up eating something, because I have to and more often than not part of it will come back up again. It's frustrating because I run out of energy. And the dry heaving up to 4 times a day, sometimes makes it painful in my abdomen because of the movement of muscles associated with it.
I want to be able to have my appetite back, so I can eat properly for myself and my baby. If I'm lucky I may have 1 day where I actually have a proper appetite. I can't get comfortable at night because of it either. At the moment it just half feels like my baby is feeding off my excess fat o_O. (I'm not morbidly obese lol - just have a low view of myself). I just feel like if I take nausea tablets that they won't work, because of how my feelings are towards food at the moment.
So what can I do? And has anyone else ever lost this much weight during pregnancy??
to the person who said "you should know you're a nurse".
I am TRAINING to become a nurse. And I have have not included midwifery in my course. I have only completed my first year of my degree.
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With my last baby I lost close to 20 lbs because I was so sick. I had the extra weight that I could lose so the Dr wasn't too concerned about it. He did end up giving me medication for the sickness and it started working very quickly. I had my appetite back, and didn't feel like I was sick all the time. Which was great because I have two other children at home that I have to take care of. I know have a beautiful 2 month old baby girl that is healthy and happy. Good luck to you and hope all goes well. Congrats on the new one!!!!
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