Well, yesterday was my first pregnancy-related doctors appointment. As Stephen often says, however, the military is a whole lot of "hurry up and wait'. I suppose the same would be true with military healthcare. We got there over 20 minutes early, and filled out some paperwork, then were ushered into a classroom of sorts. We were the first ones there, and only 3 out of 7 or 8 people who were supposed to come to our class were actually there on time. They gave us a power point on pregnancy dos and don'ts, and then told us to schedule our next appointments and ultrasounds and head to the lab to give some samples. I will say, while I am NOT a huge fan of giving blood, every time I've done it in a military hospital, they are very skilled and it hardly hurts at all. Stephen says it's because they have the soldiers give blood so often that everyone is very well practiced. I still ask them to be gentle.
I felt a bit sick this morning when Stephen came home from PT and woke me up, but I made us a mango-peach-protein powder smoothie and ate some of the strawberry-banana bread I made the other day and am feeling much better. I've been pretty good about taking my prenatal vitamins but I think I forgot one yesterday. They offered to give us a prescription for one at the class yesterday, and I simultaneously thought "Aw man, I could have saved $15!" and "It'd almost be embarrassing to not have them by now.". My final thoughts convened that I got to choose my vitamins, so I was happy with them. They have are all natural, and have ginger in them, so if I can get them down before the nausea overcomes me, I'm pretty well off.
I've been pretty lucky with symptoms lately, mostly just tired and hungry with small bouts of nausea/dizziness, but last night while I was trying to fall asleep, I was so itchy I was convinced there were bugs crawling on me or something. I have a single bug bite on my ankle, but I felt it under my arms, on my back, on my neck, and on my legs. It was crazy. When I woke up this morning, I checked everywhere and there were no signs of bites or anything, so when Stephen told me it's just part of the uncomfortableness of being pregnant, I believed him. The only thing that helped me last night was Gold Bond lotion. My mom used to put it on us when we were itchy as kids, and I would protest because I thought it smelled so gross. But Stephen swears by it, so I used it, and it not only helped, but I fortunately no longer think it smells repulsive.
I'm still sore from the yoga class Stephen and I went to on Monday, but all I've been wanting to do is nap these past few days, so I really think it was a good thing to get some exercise and I really enjoyed doing something together with my sweetie. It seems like I literally just bake, nap, watch netflix, make dinner, fall asleep again. I feel accomplished if I make it out to get the mail. My car is still in the shop, and I haven't called them or heard from them, so I am a bit nervous. I hate this feeling that I have that everything I need to work isn't working. But it's really just my car and my washing machine (my washing machine doesn't spin out clothes at the end well, so they are all soaking wet). But as long as my sweetie comes home every night and we cuddle and watch netflix and eat whatever baked good I made that day (last night it was a apple-peach-mango crumble! Heaven!), I've got it pretty good. Oh, and daily naps. They are so awesome.
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