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 How can people ‘not know they are pregnant’ for like 12 weeks?

I had the best sleep ever since being pregnant the night before last.  8 hours, straight through.  I felt awesome all day.  I did have another nap as well though!   However, the elation wore off very quickly when last night I had the WORST night so far.  3 hours sleep – I was awake at 1am and up at 1.30am.  I worked for a couple of hours, had a bite to eat, and then tried to go back to sleep – nothing doing.  Got up again, worked some more, although by now I’m really feeling it and struggling big time.  Went back to bed about 6am.  Up again at 8am.  Had to drop Damo off out at my mum’s and do some jobs in town, and was just a zombie.  I made a sandwich when I got home, had half of that and went back to bed around 11am, getting up again at 1pm.  Nausea starting to kick in with the sleep deprivation now. 

I ate the other half of my sanga and waited for it to digest and then made myself go to the gym.  I felt quite ill the whole time, I’m sure people thought I was about to faint or something, I was laying on the machines with my eyes closed in between sets

So I’ve barely done any work, so if you are waiting for an email reply, I will get to it over Easter don’t worry.  I’ve no plans, looking forward to being a vegetable.  After taking the bins out and cleaning Big Pud’s dunny (Damo’s job but he forgot to do it before he left) I ran a spa and relaxed for awhile.  Now its 6pm and I’m in my nighty flaked on the couch.  I just had a small home made pasta, ham, tomato, pesto, cheese and avocado salad.

Now, as for this pregnancy weight gain business, Jo, I reckon you are one of a kind though, training like you did right through your pregnancy.  I guess being able to sleep well and not having the nausea to go with the vomiting would have helped you to stick to your usual training and nutrition regime.  Not that I’m any expert (haha, by a long shot) but from what I’ve read it doesn’t sound like you put on enough weight especially if you were having twins.  But, obviously you had a healthy pregnancy so it’s all good.  I’m going to disagree with you about the weight gain thing though because I can really understand now how you just cannot control what you need to eat sometimes.  I’m not condoning eating junk food all the time, no way, but as far as the baby only needing an extra 100 calories in the first trimester – hmph!  So why do you get so frigging hungry every 2 hours then?  And why can you not stomach some healthy foods but can eat things like toast and cheese?  (I’m not directing these questions to you Jo, just asking them to myself really!).   I’ve put on nearly 4lb so far, and I attribute that to a number of factors – I am a lightweight to start with and apparently we put on the most weight, I was dieting and training for a comp before I got pregnant, I then stopped training because I physically was unable to for (so far) 7 weeks, I started eating a lot more than my diet consisted of because I was hungry and sick and I had to eat to stop the nausea, I am eating a lot more carbs and some foods I would not normally eat because that is what my body is telling me to do.  Buggered if I’m gonna fight it just to save a few pounds of weight gain hey.  Anyway, I’m still not weighing as much as I was at the start of my last comp prep. 

I don’t know, what are everyone else’s thoughts? 

I suppose I do feel a bit of pressure to stay trim while pregnant but you know what, I don’t really care – my body is not my own at the moment, it’s doing it’s thing and so be it.  My focus is on eating mostly (I’d say >85% of the time) healthy food, eating when I need to and resting when I can.  If I can’t train, I can’t train.  Having said that, I’m definitely aiming to get there 3 x week to lift, and on the other days I’m walking.  Doing what I can without pushing the limits.

I was thinking of getting some milo to try and help me relax again after I wake in the middle of the night.

Well I’ve watched the Biggest Loser and now I’m ready to crash in bed at 8.30pm.

Yesterday we had our spa treatment which was heavenly. Though afterwards I really felt quite ill – I think all that massaging and stuff really stirred things up and made me feel very off. Oh I got sucked in big time too, after my treatment they applied a light make up using Jane Iredale mineral makeup. I decided to buy the pressed powder and a brush to go with it as I’ve never used mineral make up and it looked nice and natural. I just said yep I will have one of those and a brush thanks. Ah hem – $168 thank you very much! The damn brush was $83! WTF?? I know I could have gotten it for at least half that on the net. Next time.

Anyway today I felt good, really good. I swear the morning sickness pills are working. However, now Damien appears to be getting the flu! We can’t win! And the weather is still shit. I only had one sleep today, about half hour.

I never realised how good fruit really tastes. I found some big juicy white peaches in the IGA here and I have been eating 3 a day! And today at Eumundi I bought a pineapple, which happens to be the best pineapple I have ever tasted. And 3 mangoes. I figure surely it can’t hurt if I eat lots of fruit. However, I am also eating lots of cheese. I have a thing for sandwiches at the moment. Ham, cheese, tomato and lettuce on wholemeal multigrain. I also bought some home made butter at the market, oops, and some big muffins – ginger and banana, and feta and pumpkin. Oh and some coffee and walnut greek yoghurt, yum. Tomorrow we are going to the Farmer’s Market – probably much of the same stuff but I will get some more muffins and perhaps another pineapple!

Pic is from the photo shoot I did a week and a half ago.  7 1/2 weeks and I thought I should wear a bit of a loose fitting top   We are sitting here deciding what to have for dinner.  Neither of us are particularly hungry, me because I eat all day long and only have room for little bits at a time, and Damo coz he’s sick.  I feel like a couple of steamed dimmies hehe.

So, I have avoided making it public because as you might understand, I feel a bit paranoid and scared about it because of my previous miscarriage.  I thought I would at least wait until my first scan, of which I had today.  I’ve been so excited to just make the scan, to see what is going on inside!  My baby has a heartbeat!  So that’s a good sign.  I’m at 8 weeks.  It just looks like a little smudge on the ultrasound.

My weight is staying stable, yet I’m eating like a horse.  Lots of carbs – fruit, fruit and veg juice, wraps, sandwiches, rice cakes, pasta, you name it. 

I ate a pie the other night for dinner!  Had this thing for pastry.  Chile con carne pie with cheese – was pretty good too.  I NEVER drink juice, but I have had this thing for fruit juice as water doesn’t seem to quench my thirst.  When I went out for lunch with my mum and sis the other day I had a carrot, apple and ginger juice.  Yummo.  I think the ginger helped ease my nausea – so now I have a thing for that too.

I’ve been sick – not physically, but just feeling nauseas 90% of the time, often with a constant headache, and unbelievable exhaustion.  I yawn all day.  By 5pm I’m absolutely stuffed and can’t do anymore than sit on the couch.  Insomnia is pretty bad – waking at 3-4am most days again, though I did have a good 2 weeks where I slept well and thought that was over.   So the sleep deprivation hasn’t helped me in being able to keep active because I just feel wrecked.

I eat often as it eases the nausea.  Some days even though I eat regularly I get so hungry very quickly.  It must be in times of a growth spurt or something, because other days this doesn’t happen.

So all in all I feel like a washed out rag for the majority of the day and night.  I hope it goes away as soon as possible!

I am off to Noosa on Thursday morning for a week – I am SO needing a week laying around the beach and pool.  Have booked in for a 2.5 hour spa treatment at Ikatan Spa on the Friday – heaven!

Ok well I think I might go for a drive to try and find some of these ginger lollies that are supposed to help ease the queasiness.

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