You Know You Might Be Pregnant When...

You sneeze 6 or 7 times in a row, only to realize that aside from being in serious need of a tissue, you've also just wet your pants a bit.

Yeah, that actually happened.

My allergies have been REALLY bad. The pollen outside is just ridiculous. You can actually see it hanging in the air like a haze. God made me to be a person who loves being outdoors, but I just can't when there's that much pollen and I'm allergic to every grass, tree, weed, etc that the allergist tested me for. I've just been blowing my nose a lot, breathing steam from a pot of boiling water, taking like 2 showers a day, using the netty pot, and drinking a cup of hot herbal tea every night. All that doesn't help it 100%, but it's enough to keep me from getting a sinus infection. I really don't want to take any medicine if I don't have to, and honestly medicine doesn't help me much when my allergies are this bad so I'd still have to be doing all that other stuff anyways.

I've been sleeping like 12 hours a night, once I'm able to fall asleep, that is. If I sleep less than that I end up feeling bad during the day. I'm not sure if that's pregnancy related or allergy related. Maybe a little of both.

We've been grocery shopping at Wal-Mart because it's cheaper, but when it comes to fresh food, they are just bad. Their produce is usually pretty gross. So this week we went back to Publix so I could get more than a few things. I ended up coming home with fresh broccoli, carrots, lettuce, bananas, apples, nectarines, strawberries, and grapes, organic milk (which I get if we go to Wal-Mart too), some salmon fillets, and stone ground wheat bread. I also made a bowl of this dip Matt and I like that is pretty healthy - just a bag of frozen sweet corn rinsed, a can of black beans rinsed, and one container of La Mexicana mild salsa that you can buy in the refrigerated produce section at Publix. We eat it with yellow corn chips and it's quite tasty.  :)

My next doctor appointment is this Thursday April 8. I'll post sometime afterward, tho I think this visit is just asking if we want to do any optional testing along with the standard stuff. I'm interested to see how much weight I've gained now. At 12 weeks I'd only gained 1 pound even though I'd been eating like a goat!

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