Pregnancy Facts: Preeclampsia Symptoms and More

With my first daughter, I just knew I was pregnant. I took the test, and there it was, that positive result. I was so happy, nervous, delighted and scared. The range of emotions is just not explicable until you are in that position yourself.

I started reading the day to day guides as to what was happening with my body and my baby, I remember at 6 weeks and 4 days I was so thrilled because they said *normally* morning sickness occurs between 5-6 weeks if you were going to have it. I thought I had avoided it and I was going to be one of those women who sailed through pregnancy with no sickness.

THEN, at 6 weeks, 5 days it hit. I spent the entire day in the bathroom and what felt like the next 15 weeks or so. I tried everything in the book for my morning sickness B12, Preggo pops, protein, Dramamine,and nothing worked. I had very severe nausea and vomiting and was getting sick up to 15 times a day. During my first pregnancy I lost 25 pounds. (Just a note because my OB never did anything for me during this pregnancy as far as my sickness. If you are this sick, you need to be on medicines! I was never made aware that there was anything available to me.)

Around 22 weeks or so, my morning sickness subsided some. I still had it through the remainder of my pregnancy, but it was now just a few times a week or so. Around 26 weeks, I felt like I woke up one morning and I looked like all a sudden I had a basketball for a belly. It just appeared. I went from normal clothing to maternity in a matter of weeks.

The next few weeks went by fairly smoothly although third trimester gets uncomfortable and morning sickness and nausea can get worse due to decreasing space in the abdomen. Heartburn became a pretty awful ordeal for me too and I spent a lot of time chewing Tums. Around 34 weeks I started getting higher blood pressure readings at my visits and so they started increasing my visits.