Asthma and Fatigue and Nausia with Weight Loss...Oh My!

Baby's doing well. Today's heart rate was 150. I thought I heard the doctor comment that I'm measuring slightly small for dates, but if the comment was made at all, it seemed to be in passing. Rick didn't hear him say anything about measurements being off.

We go in for our "big" ultrasound on Sept. 21. As of today I finally have an "official" due date of Feb. 18 from ultrasound and conception dating (though I still think it is more fun to say Valentine's Day using LMP dating).

I'm still loosing weight and since we are second trimester now, my doctor isn't as willing to let that issue ride anymore. He offered my medication for nausea (how I wish he had been my doctor while I was pregnant with Joshua and couldn't keep anything down!) but did warn me that it will make me even more fatigued if I take it. Since I'm already barely functional energy-wise (dragging out of bed in the mornings, craving my 2-hour nap after lunch, and counting down the hours in the evening until the kids are in bed so I can go to sleep too), we weighed the nausea v/s fatigue and decided to hold off on the anti-nausea meds for now unless I continue to loose.

So far I'm only down a total of 8 pounds, so more than I lost with Ruth, but only 2/3 of what I lost with Joshua. (I had gained 2 when I was in 2 weeks ago, but then lost 3 over the past 2 weeks, for a net loss of another pound.) I'm ordered to do anything I can to increase my caloric intake and to try Ensure if I can keep it down.

I had an asthma attack in church on Sunday and since this is my first pregnancy since I've developed asthma, we spent a fair amount of the appointment talking about that. I will be using my maintenance inhaler 2xs daily for the next 3 weeks now. If I haven't had an attack during that time, I'll try cutting back to 1x daily for the next couple weeks, then weaning back off it all together if I can. But if I have another attack at any time, I can safely use my acute inhaler, so I feel better knowing exactly what to do instead of having to guess over a weekend again. Since I had never had an attack before this one when it wasn't triggered by a pre-existing virus, it was pretty strange to be hit with one in the middle of song time at church.

Unless there are problems this month, I am now on my own until the 21st of September. It's great that I'm "normal" enough to go a full month between appointments, but it does feel pretty weird too!