11 Weeks! The struggle with hyperemesis gravidarum.

Well, I spent some time in the hospital last week due to dehydration and not being able to hold anything down. We waited a good 4 hours to get taken back and then I was given a few rounds of fluids and Zofran (finally! an anti-nausea medication that WORKS). They monitored me for a while and checked on the baby as well and I caught a peak at the baby on the ultrasound and my goodness(!) s/he has grown! I am so excited to be nearing the end of the 1st trimester, hopefully I can leave this nagging morning sickness with it as I advance into the 2nd trimester and get some control back over my daily life.

I have another baby doctor appointment on Friday, I'm not sure what to expect since I've already had 2 scans so I'm not really expecting another one for a while now. They are doing two biopsies then so I am a bit nervous about the pain and how the procedures are going to work, and whether or not they're actually doing both of them at the same time, I just can't imagine having a needle anywhere near that area can feel very pleasant... But luckily I have the weekend off so I can rest and recover if it's too terrible. (Of course, in my mind I've already played out that they're removing a third of my "V" and I won't be able to walk for a month, although I'm sure that's not the case at all and it'll be simple with barely any pain.)


Before I leave I thought I'd share some things I find pretty humorous that trigger my morning sickness. (It's funny and I chuckle about it only AFTER I pull my head from the toilet... Ugh.)

• Opening my purse - no seriously... If I open my purse and can smell the inside of it (the mixture of money, make up, hand sanitizer, and whatever else is floating around in there) makes me retch. I've started carrying bags in my purse just. in. case.
• The smell of my job.... Yep! My job makes me physically ill! Not the work involved or the people, though. The lobby I work in just has a particular smell to it that I guess I have started to associate with throwing up... Yuck.
• My car. Riding in it, driving in it, BEING in it = instant vom. The smell of it has started to get to me as well, so I crammed 4 Strawberry Lemonade air fresheners in the a/c vents.... It seems to have done the trick for now. And smells delicious.
• Peanut butter crackers. I  simply overused them. They were a godsend in the beginning but you can only throw something up so many times before it becomes absolutely repulsive. Keep those nasty little devils away from me.
• The feeling of throwing up. That's right... Throwing up causes me to throw up again. It's a never ending cycle of vom, then crying, then voming again. Over it... I'm so, so over it.

And here's a picture of our little peanut from 7 weeks 1 day:

your baby's the size of a lime!

Your fetus is about 1.6 inches long, and she's got about a 1:1 head to body ratio. She now weighs in at about .25 ounces.

your baby at 11 weeks

• You can't see it, but she's moving fluidly and gracefully in there.
• Her skin is see-through, but she's on her way to looking more like a baby.
• Her fingers and toes aren't webbed anymore.
• Tooth buds, hair follicles and nail beds are forming.