It's been a ridiculous last week and a bit in the life of pregnancy and sickness and it has not been fun and I've well and truly hit the wall today.
Started getting sick last weekend, got my flu jab not really thinking much of it, and then crashed haaaaaarrrrddddd. unnecessarily so. And of course being pregnant you're not meant to take any drugs etc so I went to a pharmacy to be like yo I can hardly swallow is there anything I can take and she was like, not if you don't want to harm your unborn child like so unnecessarily mean. On Tuesday I was so puffy I ended up going to see my midwife to get my blood pressure checked and it was not good. Got sent to hospital to get it checked again and it was even higher so guess who got admitted.
In between feeling like shit plus the cold plus the hypertension they struggled to get it back down, and then needed the fetal heart rate monitor on except I have such an active baby it literally doesn't stop moving and therefore you cant get a 20 minute uninterrupted reading at all.
Got the worst bleeding nose I've had in a long time and freaked the nurse out of the first time that night while Dave and I tried to be like nah it's fine honestly this is just normal sickness for me don't stress. and then later on I coughed so hard I was like oh no I'm gunna puke so had to rip all the monitors off and run to the bathroom to throw up at which point I dislodged the blood clot in my nose so once again freaked the poor nurse out again who was smashing the call button coz I was vomiting blood and again had to be like nah it's one lot of vomit and one lot of nose bleed pls stop. and then they couldn't work out if I'd thrown up the blood pressure meds or not.
and thus commenced 5 days in hospital of trying to stabilise my blood pressure and get reasonable scans of le bebe's heartrate. It did not go well. So we got out late on saturday night, thank god for chem warehouse who dispense late at night and have been chilling at home since. I'm fucking exhausted. and then yesterday I ended up having reduced fetal movements so had to go back to the hospital to get another scan and it turns out he's moved breech which is why I'm feeling less movement but it was still really stressful.
And today I'm actually just so wiped out and tired and just done honestly. I haven't been to work in a week and a half, I'm pooped, and I've done a lot of crying. and its frustrating coz you just never know where you stand or what tomorrow looks like and I'm just over it. sounds like I'll be getting induced early now at 37 weeks so I might have a baby in 6 weeks. maybe 7 if my BP stays stable for long enough but honestly.
I'm just exhausted today.