Morning sickness isn't just for mornings!

Yesterday, I was able to experience the joy of morning sickness for the first time.

I've been waking up about twice during the night to pee, and when I woke up at 3 yesterday morning, I ended up dry heaving with the worst nausea I could imagine, and I was so dizzy I had to lie on the bathroom floor (you know that feeling when you're sick that the most comfy place in your whole house has to be your bathroom floor?) with hot and cold flashes, plus the sweating and chills that come with those flashes. I woke Mr. Magnolia Bud up, and he was nice enough to put my towel under my head. Those were possibly the longest 10 minutes of my life. The entire time, I was so worried that it meant something was wrong with the baby. Once I felt better, I realized that it was probably just morning sickness.

All day yesterday, my stomach felt a little 'off'--nothing too crazy, but I was being really conservative with my diet--fruit, crackers, nuts for protein, and lots of water. I had a meeting yesterday afternoon, and as soon as it was over, I started dry heaving and having terrible nausea again. But thankfully again, it only lasted for about 5 minutes. Definitely long enough for me to consider telling HR what's up, but short enough that I didn't have to.

The thing that surprised me the most was that as horrible as I was feeling, there was a voice in the back of my head saying "I wouldn't trade this for anything." We are so happy and grateful to be pregnant, especially because we know many people who struggle to have children--I can't complain about anything right now.

Today, I'm going to head out and buy some Sea Bands. I've been continuing my B6 (100mg a.m., 100mg p.m.), and we bought some fresh ginger this weekend on the expectation that morning sickness would hit around six weeks. I've also started carrying graham crackers with me everywhere. Hope those things are enough to save me from actually throwing up in public. The next few weeks will be a test, as I'm traveling a lot for work, including a lot of driving.

Lots of love and baby dust!

-Magnolia Bud

So Glad It's Friday!

I'm so happy it's Friday! This week has been a complete rollercoaster, and today is another dip in the ride.

After another highest-ever temp yesterday, my temp dropped (0.4, but enough to make me think my triphasic pattern will come to an end tomorrow morning). I've only been at this a month, and am already feeling discouraged. I think I mostly feel this way because after four cycles of having 8 and 9 day luteal phases, I made it to DAY 15 today!!! That's a SIX-day increase in LP in one cycle. I can't wrap my brain around what hormonal changes have had to occur in my body this month to make that happen all.at.once. I'm still having crampy twinges and backaches, and crazy fatigue, but the crampiness today feels a little more like my usual AF cramps--just occasionally, and not nearly as intense. I've been doing a lot of reading on Dr. Google (I know, he's not my friend!), and I've only seen reports of greater than 1-2 day LP increases from B6 a handful of times. That doesn't help how I'm feeling--it just adds to my confusion.

On top of my TTC struggles this week, I was traveling for a few days earlier this week for work. It always takes me a couple of days to get back into a routine at home after leaving town, and this week has been no different. Today I realized that we're low on groceries, the laundry has started to pile up, and the house is starting to get messy again. So tonight, Mr. Magnolia Bud and I are going to be a terribly un-fun married couple and get things in order. He always loves nights like this, since he gets stuck with dishes and cleaning up the kitchen :::guilty wife look:::

At least I've defrosted a tasty dinner for us tonight. We're having a beef stir-fry with peppers, broccoli, and some bamboo shoots. If I get another - test tonight, we'll be having wine with dinner too. I think it's needed after this week!

Ladies, do any of you have B6 stories to share? (Especially if B6 caused your LP to lengthen by more than 1-2 days?)

Have a great Friday, everyone!

Love and lots of baby dust--

--Magnolia Bud

7w1d.... another chance to see smudge....

...and, smudge looks good.

She's 7w1d today. Her heartbeat was 158. She measured 7.9mm, which is almost double last week (4mm), and is measuring at 6w5d. The RE says that's perfectly normal.

My RE said that much like when the baby is born, and gets measured against a growth percentile chart, there's a "growth chart" for in utero as well and the baby has to measure within a week of the actual dates. So we're right on track. He said her heartbeat is perfect.

All told... things look good. He tried to kick me out today - but I suckered one more u/s out of him next week. I told him that he can't tell me the miscarriage risk drops to 5% at 8 weeks and not see me at 8 weeks.

In other news, I also talked to my RE about how an RN would break into the field of IF (i'm miserable at my job, and have been job hunting for quite awhile. Mr. DB and I have been talking about this possibility for about 6 months). He said that he might be looking for a new nurse soon (i know one of his LPNs left suddenly, and they're not thrilled with her replacement) ... i'm not going to hold my breath... but at least I opened a door.

Other news from the u/s: no obvious cysts, so we'll chalk up the weird left sided cramping to growing pains for now. No changes in the fibroid and the second sac is still resolving.

Pregnancy symptoms: I'm still peeing every 5 minutes, which is REALLY cutting into sleeping, but that's okay. At least I know I'm pregnant, right? Occasional nausea, and some dizziness... but I think between the Vitamin B6 that I'm taking and the acu are keeping the worst of the morning sickness at bay.