Morning Sickness

I had my booking in appointment this morning - I'm just over 7 weeks pregnant and the baby is due on the 20th April 2008. More to the point, I feel very pregnant now - I'd been a little concerned at my lack of symptoms, but toward the end of last week, the nausea and tiredness started. I feel exactly like I felt during the first few months of my pregnancy with Freyja. It is awful. Although I'm not actually being sick I have constant nausea for most of the day, feel incredibly tired and lethargic and random food-related thoughts that crop into my head keep making me gag. When I was pregnant with Freyja the smell of Pret-a-Manger was my biggest gagging trigger - I walk past the back of one on my way to work everyday and during those first few months if I didn't hold my breath when I walked past I would actually be sick. It hasn't happened this time yet, but can tell it's going to because just thinking about it now is making me queasy.

I'm sleeping more soundly than I have in ages - probably since I was last pregnant - crashing out as soon as my head hits the pillow, yet I feel like I could sleep for a hundred years and still wouldn't feel refreshed. With my first pregnancy, I would get home from work, fall asleep, wake up and have some dinner then go to bed. This time I have a toddler to play with and then put to bed when I get home.

The best way to describe it is that it feels like having a hangover - all achy and tired and sick and grubby. I read a book that said it ought to be called 'progesterone poisoning' not morning sickness, and I'd agree with that - I certainly feel poisoned right now. Not to mention the fact that it lasts all bloody day!

And I've gone off tea.