The First Trimester

The unknown….

When we first found out we were expecting, it took a while for it to sink in. Not because it caught us off guard but because it didn’t. I took a while to settle because just like anything else you’ve ever prayed for/ manifested. It happened, just like that!

Early on in my pregnancy, things started taking a turn. I went from being very excited to questioning, “what’s going on?” I experienced extremely bad morning sickness for weeks. I lost my appetite and couldn’t keep anything down, food nor liquid. I felt useless. I felt hopeless and was just overall discouraged to continue.

For weeks, I was vomiting every 10 minutes and barely had the energy to move or walk. All I wanted to do was stay in the bed and sleep but I knew that wasn’t an option. After a while, I noticed a decline in my energy levels and that’s when I knew something was wrong. After a visit to the doctor, I was given medication that was suppose to help with the nausea but it just made it worse. Instead of things progressing, the exact opposite occurred.,

I woke up one day and my energy level had dropped so much, I felt the lowest I’ve ever been in my life. At this point I was still vomiting but more frequent and still not eating. I was also at a point where I couldn’t swallow my own saliva. No matter how much I tried I would have to spit it out. You’d think it was just a one time occurrence but it wasn’t. I was filling up multiple water bottles a day with my own saliva. Just imagine the inability to eat, drink and not being able to swallow my own spit. I was in a bad place. We decided to go to the ER and of course they admitted me. I was severely dehydrated and diagnosed with severe morning sickness called Hyperemesis Gravidarum. While admitted I was put on fluids and they wouldn’t let me leave until I was able to keep my food down.

Lets just say, it was a long night/day. We arrived around 6PM and didn’t leave until 8AM the next morning. We immediately went to get breakfast since I finally had an appeitete and then it was time to go to work.

Fast forward, after leaving the ER and trying multiple medications things finally started to get better. I finally started to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

……To be continued