Comments on: Better

By: Kristin

Kristin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:21:19 +0000

I didn’t barf much but I still hated almost every minute of my pregnancy. It’s OK to loathe, OK to eat peach pie, and OK to leave a bag of flaming vomit at your neighbour’s front door the next time they dare try to fry anything.

By: Shutter Bitch

Shutter Bitch — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:14:09 +0000

What gets me is that you have to qualify your explanation with what a shitty time of it you’re having with declarations of how lucky you know you are. We who’ve read a long time know that you want this baby, and that just because you don’t like being pregnant based off your experience with it so far doesn’t mean you aren’t excited and thrilled about the baby at the end of it. I hope you haven’t been trolled about it, because that’s just not right, and it seems the trolls are quickly gaining in influence just like the terrorists. The trolls are winning, too, it would seem (speaking of Sweetney’s latest trolls and the ones that sniped at Amalah the other day).

Anyway, I hope you feel better soonish and that you enjoy all that pie. Because if you’re not able to keep much of anything else down? I’d say that’s your justification right there for all the pie eating you’re doing. You’re allowed to eat, even if it is only one kind of food until you stop meeting your meals a second time.

P.S. did you get my email a few days ago?

By: Pork with Bones

Pork with Bones — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:22:35 +0000

You poor dear. Please don’t feel guilty for hating the way pregnancy makes you feel. No matter how much someone else (or you, before it happened) wishes to be pregnant, that doesn’t mean you don’t feel what you feel now, and the constant vomiting is something worth feeling awful about.

The only suggestion I can make is what my doctor told me when I was having the same problem: eat anything that sounds vaguely good. Eat whatever you think you might be able to keep down, and don’t worry about the nutrients — baby gets first dibs on those, before your own body does. There was a three-week period in which I ate Fruity Pebbles at least twice a day. (I eventually also developed a hierarchy of foods, ranked by which ones hurt the least when I inevitably threw them up.)

By: Kristabella

Kristabella — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:26:39 +0000

God, I feel so bad for you. I think everything you are feeling is normal. No one should be that sick, for any reason. It breaks my heart. You are a strong, strong person because I couldn’t do it.

I’m crossing my fingers that the vomit stops NOW.

By: Shelly

Shelly — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:07:40 +0000

Oh! And to the point about all pregnancies being different – YES, they are. I barfed the whole time with my first, and very rarely with my second. With my second, I even had a really glorious second trimester in which I was absolutely delighted to be pregnant!

By: nonsoccermom

nonsoccermom — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:54:40 +0000

Oh, ick. I’m so sorry. That’s totally miserable. I can’t even imagine how unpleasant that must be. Even ordinary run-of-the-mill pregnancy nausea (like I had) was horrible enough. I hope you feel better soon, I really do.

By: ZestyJenny

ZestyJenny — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:02:50 +0000

Yes! What Swistle said. I was trying to think yesterday how I could send you something nice and all the internetty options I could think of seemed crappy.

By: Maggy

Maggy — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:20:05 +0000

My favorite was people saying, “Oh, you should be feeling better by now.” Really? I’ll get right on that.
And now I am going to take a nap.

By: Swistle

Swistle — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:42:08 +0000

Also, I think you should rent a p.o. box with some of the money you’re saving on those astonishingly expensive nausea medicines, and then give out the address and allow the masses to send you presents and care packages. Fun stuff in the mail would do BEE CRAP to improve the nausea, but it might improve the bearability of life.

And do you like how you said “no advice,” and I said “[advice!]“?

By: Swistle

Swistle — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:36:37 +0000

I know that THEORETICALLY things could be worse, but BEEZUS you’re surely in the upper tiers yourself. Months of what is basically the worst kind of stomach flu? INTOLERABLE. And I wish it on anyone who shrugs about it or dares to suggest you feel lucky that it isn’t worse.