Here is a fun excerpt from The Sarcastic Journalist
"Some women are lucky; they don’t get morning sickness. There are some that have a little less luck; they get some morning sickness. Then there are the rest of us, the women with weeks of nonstop vomiting.
All that nonstop vomiting has a name: Hyperemesis. I have a feeling that hyperemesis is Latin for “Poor woman that vomits everything in sight.”
Since hyperemesis isn’t that well known, most people tend to ask questions such as “have you tried crackers?” or “I hear that ginger works.”
For many women, the only thing that works is having an 8-pound baby shoot out of her crotch.
I know that people are trying to be helpful, but it is really hard not to go postal on someone offering “advice,” especially if you spent the night before in the emergency room, getting IV fluids for dehydration.
I can’t tell you how many times I wanted to say “Crackers? Really? That’s all it takes? Eating a few stinking crackers? I’ve been vomiting for five months straight and all I needed to do was eat a stinking cracker?"
-The Sarcastic Journalist-
It is my prayer that the vomiting stops soon. I thought this prayer was answered, since I hadn't thrown up since this past Tuesday; however, I just said some more prayers while kneeling in front of the porcelain pot about an hour ago! Ugh.....
(This picture was taken at 8 weeks and the kid was squirming around so much, kicking and waving, it was hard to get a clear picture of his or her arms and legs - as you can see, I have labeled the Head, the Arm Buds, and the Leg Buds.)
