Sick

I woke up at 1:00 AM Sunday night (well, really Monday morning) just not feeling good at all. Kind of nauseated and I just assumed I was sleeping on my back for too long so I didn't feel well. Within an hour or so I was in the bathroom definitely sick from both ends. Yeah, pretty gross, but hey, just think - eventually you'll hear about childbirth here.

I lost count at around 12 or so times of throwing up and by the time our alarms went off that morning, my husband had called us both into work and was at the store getting things like Gatorade and Vitamin Waters. He called my midwife as soon as they opened and left a message for a nurse. They didn't call back for a couple hours so until around 10 or 11 I was pretty much on my own as to how to handle this. I knew I needed to keep fluids in me, even if I would drink some and throw it right back up. Literally....within 20 minutes of drinking anything, it was coming up. I took my temperature, which was actually pretty low, so I just assumed I had food poisoning. I've never had that before and certainly never experienced anything like this before so I thought it was that. We ate breakfast with our cousins at IHop Sunday morning and TGIFridays for dinner on our way back from St. Louis, so who knows what I could have picked up. I was just glad I didn't have a fever because that is not good for baby Lucas.

My husband also contacted our childbirth instructor and doula and she called back and left a message saying I really needed to stay hydrated or I could go into preterm labor. Of course, that freaked me out a lot. I was drinking a lot (and was soooo thirsty), but it just wouldn't stay down.

When my midwife called my husband back they all talked on the phone for some time and decided to call in two prescriptions for me. One, a rectal suppository (which I would only do knowing I was carrying our son inside me, if it were just me to worry about, no way I was sticking anything up my bum, thanks!) which was to calm my system down, let me sleep (since I hadn't slept since before 1 AM that night), and try to stop things on that end. The other was a tablet that dissolves in your mouth and is supposed to stop vomiting.

I can't say if the tablet worked or not since I took and within 30 seconds was running toward the bathroom again to throw it back up, but what I could get in of the suppository did help b/c I was able to sleep for a couple hours without needing to visit my bathroom. However, within an hour or so of waking up, I was throwing up again.

It was so not pretty. I would bet my life that I've never thrown up that much in my entire life as I have the past 48 hours. I could get into more detail, but I will spare you and myself from having to relive the horror that was yesterday. I haven't thrown up since about 5:00 last night which is good, but everything else is still pretty bad. I haven't really been able to eat either, partly because I am too afraid to, but mostly because nothing tastes or sounds good. I think my husband is going to get me soup and salad from Olive Garden later, so hopefully I'll be able to eat that. Lucas needs to eat. :( Thankfully, I've been feeling a lot of movement during all of this (probably b/c he's going "what the hell is going ON in there????") so that makes me feel a little better. I ended up running a small fever last night so I took a cool shower and a Tylenol. I really try not to take drugs, but I figured the fever definitely wasn't good for the baby and I had already taken so much already, I was really past the point of no drugs yesterday.

Today I can actually function somewhat. I still feel like crap and didn't go to work, but hopefully I can tomorrow. Yesterday I didn't even leave the bed except to visit the bathroom. I really just want this all to be over. I have a ton of laundry to do from this weekend and lots of baby stuff to put away, but it's all just sitting in my kitchen from when we got home Sunday night. Talk about needing a vacation after all of this!