16 weeks has always been known as THE BIG ONE for this pregnancy. It was the week I was to get the anatomy scan of Reed, follow up biopsy to make sure the cervical cancer hasn't come back, and I started those lovely hormone injections. Well 16 weeks has turned out to be a whole lot more exciting than just that. The whole family came down with a stomach bug! So along with my normal pregnancy symptoms, let's add extreme vomiting and bathroom trips to it. At my doctor's appointment on Tuesday I spent the entire waiting time in the restroom and then when it was finally my turn to see the doctor I collapse! As I come to I hear Ben telling the doctor how I haven't held anything down, including liquids, in almost 2 days. I am immediately rushed to the ER there at the hospital and given fluids, Zofran, and who knows what else. I started to feel a little better and ask if I can just go home now (my chances of seeing the doctor and getting my anxiety over were put to bed the moment I hit the floor); the nurse then informs me that I still have to receive my shot for the week. So I get ready for what I have already made in my head to be a terrible pain the the butt (pun intended). I was NOT ready for that. IT HURT! I consider myself to be a trooper; I'm the person that goes into the doctor's office asking for a shot. Not this one. The shots will be just one more thing that I battle and overcome this pregnancy, and I will overcome!
I have 2 weeks before my next doctor's appointment, so I have 2 more weeks of questions and anxiety. Hopefully it will fly by faster than that stomach bug dragged on.
Thanks to no food for 2 days I have lost any weight I thought I had gained over the last 16 weeks and am back to pre-pregnancy weight. Little Reed is starting to poke through and I feel him every hour of the day! During the last sonogram he was in the "birthing position" with his head down pressing onto my uterus, but I felt him flip over and is side to side to hopefully stay.
The Zachary boys got to take their first picture together this week!
