"Morning" Sickness, Aversions and Cravings

Whoever coined the term "morning" sickness should be blamed for giving false expectations...that's like false advertising. If it happens any time of the day, they should not call it that!

Yeah I think I spoke too soon about not having much morning sickness in my first trimester. I am currently in my 16 weeks of pregnancy and I still have episodes almost everyday. Although I guess it is triggered by some kinds of foods, which weirdly I normally would have loved.

Cheetos, cheese puffs, sunflower seeds I really love but for some reason, wait less than an hour and it just makes me sick. Fish is also something I thought I cannot give up coz I love fish but now it's just too difficult to eat. I even hate my prenatal vitamin coz one of the capsules tastes like fish, yuck...even if it says no fish oil...but that I can't not take so I guess nothing I can do there.

Right now, I always crave for In N Out french fries ---  usually that becomes my midnight snack. hehehe Yummy! I can finish the whole thing, supposedly, it's not a very good snack --- what are they saying?!? I think it's very good! --- coz it's all carbs so Bobby throws in a vanilla milkshake para daw may protein hehehe Right now, I'm not too worried about gaining weight coz I haven't gained any yet but my tummy is already HUGE. I'm at 4 months and probably I've just gained 2 pounds so far...I was already overweight when I started with pregnancy, so I guess I'm losing my weight as the baby grows, it doesn't show though --- taba pa din hehehe

I've mentioned this to our nutritionist and OB coz I was a bit worried and they said that I am doing great, so nothing to worry about. They graph the weight gain every time we come in for a check up. With my starting weight I'm supposed to only gain 20 to 25 lbs at most.

We just had our AFP2 screen test last Friday, we'll find out the results in 2 weeks. Hopefully the results are good.

With all the difficulties of pregnancy, everybody says its all worth it. Don't worry I believe all of you --- there is also happiness and joy that comes with it --- and we're really excited and psyched about every part of this experience.