So to update you we are at week 17 of our pregnancy and Emma is still feeling sick.
Luckily it’s only in the mornings, mid mornings afternoons and evenings. At lunch she’s fine.
Although I did get this email from her the other day.
How is your day going? I’m doing everything in my power to not puke on my desk.
Here’s the list of things I can no longer have in the house, types of food I can’t use to cook with and places we can’t go to anymore.
Coffee
Fennel
Pepperoni (which used to be her favourite kind of pizza).
Eggs – fried, scrambled or as omelettes….. Cakes are allowed.
Spicy food and in fact anything that might even slightly cause heartburn.
Milk unless it’s really fresh – watching people smell milk made my wife gag before she was pregnant.
Buses
Pound Shops
Lidl
Anywhere outside near where people are smoking.
Anywhere inside where people are likely to come into after smoking.
Farms or anywhere too ‘rural’.
Hospitals (that’s a tricky one to avoid).
I’m sure there’s more to the list but you get the idea. By far the worst culprit is the fridge. Emma now makes this loud retching sound every time she opens it. It’s horrible as it echos around the kitchen…..not what you want when you’re having your breakfast.
I have since cleaned it out and removed food that on the banned list but apparently there’s still something in there which doesn’t smell right.
So the question my wife keeps asking is…….how long does the sickness last?
Michael Shilling is a baby and family portrait photographer at Memory Gate Photography he is due to become a father for the first time on 10th July 2014
Oh dear, she really seems to be suffering. I have to admit most people are getting over the worst of it by now so she may be unlucky ! Just keep thinking it will all be worth it in the end x
I was quite unlucky too as in the first 4 months I had nausea and vomiting then during the remaining 5 months I had reflux. Every pregnancy is so different that it is impossible to predict how it is going to be. Every woman reacts differently to the hormonal changes. During the pregnancy I was particularly emotional and sensitive to how people treated me. I would say that this emotional status was worse than the nausea…. 🙁 As Lynn says, it is worth in the end and the moment the baby is out all this disappears magically 🙂