The first trimester wasn't pleasant, but I have to be happy that I didn't have the same experiences as my mom and other friends. I was tired and sick-feeling the entire time, but luckily, I never threw up. I also was having some bad back pains. This was very uncommon compared to being pregnant with Andrew. I think it might have something to do with being my second pregnancy. I had horrible back labor with Andrew, so I guess the pains knew where to go and wanted to start early. I went to Dr. Rose, my and Andrew's chiropractor regularly to get some soft tissue work done. This was mostly a massage, but I liked that she knew what to do and took into account that I was pregnant. The pains in my back started before the nausea, but I have to say that the nausea outlasted the back pains.
I also think that my hormones were a bit too comfortable and knew right when to "attack." I was catty throughout the pregnancy (so far), since I'm still in my second trimester writing this post. I also had some issues with my asthma, which started before I got pregnant, about two weeks before. I wasn't sure what was goin on with that, so I went to Sw. Am. to get my asthma tested. I went to see my regular doctor to get the results of that visit, but my regular doctor wasn't in when I need to be looked at. I saw someone else, who prescribed Advair. The tests showed nothing wrong, so they thought they would just try a new medication that I had to take twice a day. After finding out about this, my regular doctor, Dr. B, wasn't too excited, since she feared it would have negative effects on the baby. I trust her, since at that time in my pregnancy, she seemed to be the only doctor being overly cautious. She put me on a nebulizer treatment, which seemed to work okay as well. My regular inhaler was on standby just in case of an emergency. I also started to get a few minor headaches about this time. This was the beginning of March. Maybe it was the changing of the temperatures or something, but that wasn't normal. That was quickly followed by some type of stomach flu. It seemed to be hitting me all at once. Nausea, back aches, headaches, breathing problems. It wasn't any fun.
Things seemed to get better around week 9, since I had no issues. However, during week 10 when Dennis was out of town on a long business trip, I had some brown spotting. I was a bit worried about this, since I never had any spotting issues with my pregnancy with Andrew. Everything added up to be a scary situation. My OB/GYN put me on pelvic rest for the rest of that week. Luckily, my mom was able to stay at the house a lot, being that it was spring break for me, and I was home more often. She helped a lot with Andrew, and she even helped moved the rooms around a bit upstairs to get Andrew ready for a big-boy room. I started to make the pregnancy more public during the last week of March, which was my 11th week. I told more family and friends, and I wasn't avoiding the question. I told my students during week 12. I was just really tired all the time. That was the main memory. My belly was getting bigger, but there weren't any major changing from what I thought. I could have been bloated for all I knew! :)
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