So many questions over the past few weeks, I thought I’d stop and answer some here.

Did I ever get the princess mini album returned.

Nope. Never saw it again, and I haven’t even gotten around to re-doing it.

Can I get the dissolving Zofran?

Got it. It’s revolting, but I found an alternative way to take it, so I’m managing.

Do I lose my creativity when I’m expecting?

Yes, unfortunately. It won’t last the entire time, but creativity and being terribly nauseated just don’t go hand in hand. That notwithstanding, I have many obligations scrappy-wise, so I’ll still be scrapbooking and sharing it here. It will just be less and much more difficult. I won’t enjoy the process as much, and it does become a chore, not fun. The good news is, that won’t last the whole time!

The really irritating thing about this is that I still get ideas. My brain is still going warp speed- but I go to actually do something and I’m so weak and dizzy I can’t focus or sit long enough to pull it off.

Have I tried ____________________ for the nausea and vomiting?

Yes. Every day someone gives me a suggestion, sometimes hard drugs, sometimes herbal cures, sometimes the insidious crackers. I can honestly say I have tried everything that I felt comfortable putting into my body. So, that’d be pretty much everything but medical marijuana (which I may actually consider if it is offered, as it sometimes is. Do you think Special Brownies would stay down? Food for thought).

So far, not moving and Zofran remain my best allies. B6 vitamins refuse to stay down, Phenergan knocks me out, ginger tea and pills are just awful in reverse, red raspberry leaf, not so bad in reverse, just didn’t work, and crackers, HA! Nothing can make me lunge for the kitchen sink like an innocent cracker.

Despite all this and the much more that is listed in my chart as having been tried, my doctors and nurses and pretty much everyone else still insist on offering suggestions. I know they are well meant, but do people honestly think that after 3 pregnancies of vomiting nonstop I haven’t tried every cure in the book? I flat out told a nurse who was suggesting small meals and crackers, “Don’t cracker me,” the other day as I was getting an IV.

My favorite response to the HG is definitely the handful of people I’ve talked to who have actually had the audacity to say, “I was just too busy to have morning sickness’, as if somehow this is my fault for being such a lazy, bon bon eating, woman without responsibility. These people are lucky I was too weak to actually hurt them at the time.

How are the kids coping?

Honestly, not as well as I’d like. They hardly seemed phased the first few weeks, but now Jonas is getting very touchy and refusing to be helpful. Maggie is getting edgy. They are both really cooped up since I pretty much don’t leave the house. I am trying to schedule more playdates and make it a point to take them plaves on the rare day that I feel I can. This will ease up as the months go by, until of course, bedrest. That one will be rough. I wonder if there will be any avoiding it.