Milk of Magnesia

or as I call it M.O.M.

People have told me all types of horror stories from the previous pregnancies. Not one person told me I wouldn't be able to poop. Not.a.single.person. I noticed last week that it had been more than my normal few days. I thought ah, it will be ok. I was.so.wrong. I finally went on Monday. It took WAY longer than usual. (almost an hour) There were tears involved. Clinton was ready to take me to an urgent care place. I cried. Tried to move around. Asked for all sorts of things to drink(water, hot water, hot milk, apple juice). Then it finally happened.

Fast forward six days and guess what? I haven't gone since. Since Monday I have increased my water intake, increased my fiber, started colace. I really hope this doesn't continue throughout my whole pregnancy. I felt like I had done as much as I could on Saturday to try and stimulate the natural. I dug out the list of safe medications from my OB and decided I needed to try something else. I bought Milk of Magnesia Saturday morning hoping that would trick my body. Nope, didn't work.

We had Mothers Day brunch with my mom and siblings this morning and I have had horrible cramps since last night. When we got home from brunch I decided I have to do something about this. As I slowly unwrapped the bottle of M.O.M. I started double questioning did I REALLY need to do this? My wonderful husband reassured me, while he was laughing and making jokes, that I should just drink it. I poured my two tablespoons into the provided cup and started gagging before I ever took a sip. After about ten minutes, I finished it off. :gag:

I have a new sympathy for people that struggle with constipation. This is something very new to me. If you struggle with this, I am very sorry.

Any advice or any tricks that worked for you? If you experienced this during pregnancy, was it 1st 2nd and 3rd trimesters?

Bathing Suit FAIL

We were invited to go with some friends on their boat today. After I convinced Clinton that this was a fabulous idea for this hot day. I went to put on my bathing suit. (insert sad face here) This bathing suit fit perfectly the end of last summer when I wore it last. I will spare you pictures, but my boobs look horrible. Spilling out on the right, left, and disgustingly over the top.

Add to the to do list for this week, find a new bathing suit top. Boo!

Am I still pregnant?

Today has been a great day. I was able to sleep in until 9:45 and woke up feeling great. No nausea or dizziness. I ate breakfast and decided today was the day to start cleaning out what will be the nursery. This sounds like nothing, but for the last two weeks all I want to do is sleep because of feeling like crap.

I worked on little stuff all day. No nausea! None. Then the horrible thought entered my mind, am I still pregnant? I quickly got rid of that. "I'm pregnant today and I love my baby."

I think I may have experienced my first craving today. I wanted guacamole. After going to publix to discover all of their avocados were so hard I couldn't eat them if I wanted to. I decided it will be a great snack after work monday or tuesday.