MonthTWO- OH! I AM SO SICK...

I feel like my insides are going to come up my throat. This is aweful. I have now been sick everyday, several times a day, since week 4. I can not keep the vitamins down. I throw them up as soon as they go down. For several days, I tried to eat flintstone vitamins. I was throwing them up too. I can keep Dasani Water down and that is about it. I gave up caffeine and have been trying to reduce my intake of sugar. I have aweful caffeine head aches. I have tried all of the "wise tales" to prevent the nausea- none of them are working. I even had someone tell me to try buttermilk. The thought of that made me sick. I tried the kids throw up medicine--Ipakack? Cherry flavor got to be a staple for a while. Someone suggested eating ginger candy. This is not recommended by me. It is nasty. I went and bought the SEA BANDS-- they did not work. I honestly do not thing there is anything that can stop this.

I have named my toilet the "porceline god". I have been establishing a very intimate relationship with my toilet. I spend several hours a day and night hugging it. I actually had Kevin go to the store and buy a lemon smelly thing to hang on the side of the "porceline god". Figured, I am spending so much time there, I may as well be smelling something clean, fresh and light. It isn't helping.

My sence of smell is unbelieveable. I can smell things now that I never smelled before. Meat is the worst smell. It disgust me at this point. My hair seems to be falling out in chunks, I have this rash on my face and I am also having incontinance issues.I have a constant sence of urgency. I have to go every 30 minutes and every hour on the hour during the night. Thus, I am getting no sleep. Celia says it isn't the baby that is making me have to go. I will remind her of this when she is PG one day. No one tells you these things are going to happen to you when you get PG. Everyone talks about how wonderful being pregnant is. My favorte is I never felt better than when I was pregnant....I am not having this "wonderful experience" all the girls describe. I have never felt this bad in my life.

I think the baby is a girl At the end of the 2nd month I have lost 3 1/2 pounds. My diet consist of basically anything I can keep down. Occasionally, I can keep down chicken sandwiches, jello, dole fruit bars, soup, toaster strudles, pudding, pizza and french fries. I can not keep milk down. I gag the whole time I brush my teeth. Toothpaste taste aweful to me. Today, I threw up in the doctors office, they decided to give me phenegrin. I am drunk now and that isn't helping the nausea situation.

The doctors say the babies birthday will be January 2nd, 2003. 01/02/03---> How cool is that?

At week 7 1/2 I spotted. It was very scary for me. Kevin was in Columbia taking the CPA exam so Mom took me to the doctor. They did an ultra sound and everything looked okay. The baby looked like a little peanut. I could hear its heart beating and so did Mom. The doctors felt like everything was okay. They said it could have been all the straining from throwing up.

I ended up in the hospital on Father's day. I was so dehydrated. They gave me some IV's and nausea medication. I really relaxed and was finally able to sleep.

I am very uncomfortable wearing underware. My panties are so uncomfortable. I have been hunting bikini underware for pregant women. They are not easy to find.

We are playing the name game. I am thinking about Isabella and Annabelle. Kevin and Celia think those are awful names. If it is a boy we are going to name him Rowland Davis Rawlinson. We are going to call him Davis. We have toyed with the idea of Laughlin, Braxton and Hampton for first names. Girl names are harder. Several options are Mary Catherine Rawlinson, Elleanor Love Rawlinson, Emma Grace Rawlinson, and Lyndsey Love Rawlinson. We would call them Mary Catherine, Ella or Love, Emma, or Lyndsey. Who knows what we will come up with.