This week in the hospital..

Well, I had started to write a little over a week ago about how I thought the morning sickness was improving. Once again, I spoke to soon..


I went into the emergency room over a week ago on Friday when I started to have this really intense stomach cramping and was throwing up way too much. I went home after a few hours with Zantac and a recommendation to take it easy. Well, things were sort of alright and I was still having this cramping throughout the week.


Wednesday things got a little out of control with the cramping again and we called my midwife’s backup OB. He wanted his nurse to see me right away and after a quick visit to his office they had me admitted to the hospital. The whole hospital stay went by kind of fast, although I was in there Wednesday through Saturday. The gastroenterologist diagnosed me with gastritis and got me started on Prevacid, as well as Reglan to even out my digestive system. I had regular Benadryl injections since that seemed to calm my body down quite a bit.


I’m home now, still feeling very nauseated, but not vomiting anymore. The acid is under control so my stomach isn’t causing me so much pain either. The cramping combined with nausea and vomiting was just about the worst I had been my entire pregnancy, but I’m glad to have gone to the hospital and received the proper treatment. Dave stayed with me the majority of the time and it was really great to have him help me so much without having to call the nurses every 5 minutes. He was really tired but was there for me and it made a big difference.


Even if I have to deal with being nauseated 24/7, I think that might be passing relatively soon. I’m hoping that within the next 2 weeks everything will calm down and I can get on with being happy and pregnant! Right now I’m having to deal with catching up in school and getting my overdue bills in order. It has been nearly impossible to do anything besides taking care of the most immediate things like staying showered, eating, and making it to class. Everything else has been put on hold and I can’t put it off any longer.. sigh.


Pretty soon I can start posting about exciting things and not about how sick I have been. I am definitely looking forward to making more plans and buying a few things to prepare for baby, but lately anything baby-related reminds me how sick I am or makes me frustrated that I can’t be overjoyed like so many women are by this stage in their pregnancies.


I will post the 16 week belly pic this week, since I definitely look pregnant now. Just have to wait until Wednesday :)


~Christine