So that's why.

There are a lot of things that they tell you when you get pregnant. You have "advice" coming out your ass. I've discovered two things that I really wish had been explained a bit better.

1.) If you are not experiencing any morning sickness, then getting pre-natal vitamins that are supposed to help with nausea just makes you nauseous. They are likely NOT holding worse nausea at bay. Tell your doctor about ANYTHING that you're going through and they will make it better. My vitamins also made me horribly constipated. No one should have to deal with that. The new ones just turn my morning pee a bit orange, which is kind of cool actually.

2.) You get told, even when you're not pregnant, that eating several smaller meals throughout the day is "better for you". The half-assed theory is that it's a way of boosting your metabolism so you put on less weight or even lose some. Frankly, I've done that and found that I was just always hungry and never really full.

HOWEVER; when you are pregnant your metabolism slows down and you become really damn efficient at digesting food. Because of this, you go through these wild and drastic fluctuations in blood sugar. If you don't eat every couple of hours you get really weak and shakey which you might be attributing to morning sickness or hormones or whatever. Even better is when you finally eat you also feel loopy and shakey, but this is because you're getting a rush of sugars. Eating smaller and more frequent meals helps mitigate this tremendously. I'm going to the store today and buying some digestives or something to keep by the bed to snack on when I'm awake anyway for my 3:00 am pee.

Again, no one ever tells you the whys behind doing this shit. As stubborn as we all are, you'd think someone would realize it.

It all makes sense now.

Various Hikus. (American, not Japanese so it's 3-5-3)

Pants are tight.
Berry in grapefruit.
Babe, not chub.

Time to feed.
I need to eat now.
Blarg. Urpy.

Ate too much.
Bloated like crazy.
Same all day.

Time for bed.
Thirsty, so I drink.
Have to pee.

Boobs so big!
Support the ladies.
Waking pain.

Three A.M.
Nature wakes me up.
Damn the light.

Squiggle and Me

So the Squiggle has decided to retain all the water in the world within my abdomen. Woo fun.

The prenatal vitamins I was on seem to have actually contributed to making me vaguely nauseous. This is amusing because they are supposed to have an ingredient that helps to calm your stomach and reduce the pukey feeling. I ran out of them last weekend and since then have not actually had ANY blargly feelings at all. Plus the constipation that everyone seems to say is so common in your first trimester has completely cleared up with no change from me. The doctor's office (specifically Holly who is AWESOME) has called in a different Rx.

I'm still not craving any kind of sweet. I do want fruits and veggies like crazy though. I guess this is all a good thing.