Hannah Crawford

Turkey Bacon Addiction

As I was getting past five and half months of pregnancy and my morning sickness was easing up a little bit I started to crave Turkey Bacon. I searched several shops and supermarkets, unfortunately, it’s not as popular as I thought it might be and could only find it one of my local superstores. However, once I found it, I FOUND IT! During my turbulent time with morning sickness, I had gone off of so many foods that I once loved so much such as chicken which I used to eat at least five times a week. In fact, I was struggling to keep any meat down at all and I know my body needed the iron and proteins for the baby. When I first purchased the turkey bacon I was nervous that it might make me sick, I was pleasantly surprised when I ate a turkey bacon sandwich and managed to keep it down. Furthermore, it didn’t even make me feel sick at all! I was over the moon and from there, my turkey bacon addiction was born! 

Morning Sickness

Within weeks of finding out, I was pregnant morning sickness came out of nowhere and took me down! I suffered morning sickness with my first pregnancy, however, with my first born, I felt sick more than I was actually sick. This time, around I felt sick and was constantly sick! I found it almost impossible to keep anything down other than some fruit. I was told by various people to eat ginger as it is supposed to settle the stomach. Ginger biscuits were a complete no, no! I could not stomach them at all, so I tried some ginger tea instead. Unfortunately, this was just as bad for me as it felt like I was drinking dirty dish water and made me vomit. The next thing I tried was crystallised ginger which I purchased from Holland and Barretts. Although I was not keen on the taste, I did find it easier to keep down and it did help me sometimes to not be sick, although it never really completely took the morning sickness away. I would have a crystallised ginger sweet every couple of hours most days. Albeit I thought that as the time went on I would get used to eating the ginger and maybe even start liking it, unfortunately, the more I ate the more I struggled to keep it down, I needed an alternative solution.

One day whilst I was meeting up with my older sister and nephew on South Bank I was feeling extremely nauseous from the twenty-minute train ride to them. My little boy and I stopped off in Boots for a drink and I noticed some travel sickness bands. I decided to purchase some and give them a try. They didn’t work straight away but as the days went by and I started wearing the wrist bands more frequently I did notice that they were helping my morning sickness as I wasn’t throwing up as much as I was before. I would recommend for any women who is suffering from morning sickness to give them a go.

I found out that I was pregnant back in July 2015. I didn’t really suspect that I was pregnant but I had been suffering illness for a few weeks. I was feeling drained and tired and I even went to the doctors and complained about server headaches that I had been getting. I was diagnosed with Sinusitis and given some medication for the pain. However, the pain didn’t seem to get any better and I was starting to feel worse and sickly. One day whilst I was in Tesco’s getting some food shopping I passed by the toiletries aisle and saw some pregnancy tests on display. I didn’t really think that I was pregnant but I had this strange feeling that I should buy one and check anyway. After I purchased the pregnancy test and got home I was utterly shocked to see that the pregnancy test was positive. The lines were faint but it was definitely a positive. A few hours later I did another pregnancy test and the next day I went to a local chemist and bought another pregnancy test kit and did those at home. All of the tests showed positive and that I was pregnant.

Initially, I just felt shocked and I didn’t quite believe that the tests were right. After I told my boyfriend that I was pregnant I started to feel worried and anxious, not because I wasn’t happy or excited by the news but because I had suffered a missed miscarriage less than a year earlier. I didn’t want to build myself up for the same thing to happen, therefore I became increasingly worried as the weeks went on. Even more so I started to experience similar pains on the right side of my belly which I had experiencing during my last pregnancy. I booked an appointment to see the doctor who referred me to the hospital for an early examination. At nine weeks pregnant, I had an early scan just as I did before, the Deja Vu was too much for me and I was convinced that the nurses would break the same news to me that they couldn’t find the babies heartbeat. Luckily this didn’t happen as they found the baby’s heartbeat and showed it to me on the screen and told me that everything looked ok and that the baby seemed healthy. I felt so relieved and just wanted to make it past the first twelve weeks of pregnancy as the risk of miscarriage is dramatically reduced. Although I have made it past three months of pregnancy the worry never really goes away. You can only hope and pray that your baby will stay healthy and grow full term.

Good things happen to those who believe in themselves <3 ;-)