This photo was taken while sitting on the bathroom floor, Sunday afternoon. After 2 weeks of relief from morning sickness, we thought maybe we had passed the hurdle and fully entered the 2nd trimester. When we were nestling into bed Saturday night, Ben had the idea to skip the Unisom pill that has made such a tremendous impact so far. Logically, this made sense: Sunday is our sleep in day, and neither of us need to be at work until well into the afternoon. So, if we are wrong in this idea, the nausea will likely have passed before we have anyone counting on us to be somewhere. We were terribly, dreadfully, unmistakably wrong. Sunday morning brought a bought of sickness unlike anything we have suffered, to date. Kiersten spent 2 hours on the floor, becoming best friends with the toilet. Going to work was absolutely out of the question, making this the first time she has had to completely call off in the 2.5 years she's worked for the hotels. Needless to say, we anticipate taking Unisom religiously for the next 175 nights.
This week, babe has grown to be as big as a navel orange. The apps all say we should be seeing a bump, now, but we're not convinced much has changed. The scale certainly reassures us that things are different, though! After several months of a very intentional lifestyle change and weight-loss journey, its challenging to see the number increasing each week, when it was going down for so long. It has been really difficult to realign food choices after so many weeks of eating whatever would stay down. We're still looking for the glow and energy everyone promised and haven't ruled out a drastic drop in nutrition from the list of primary causes in the delay. We are actively trying to get back on track to ensure baby is getting everything they need, in addition to mom.
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