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I always bitch and complain about the fact that in the US we have the worst maternity leaves, but I have to say that after listening to so many of you women on this forum tak about how hard it is to get the care you want or the access to doctors and tests/equipment that I am just going to shut up and keep paying my large insurance premiums so long as I get the attention I want. Tara - listen to Daniella - what she says makes sense. I know it is so hard to believe that things will be okay especialy after all the garbage you have been through in the past year, but there is much to be hopeful for. I know i am sick as a dog half the time but it really didn't start up that soon - not until about 7-8 weeks- and I have friends who had no illness and had perfectly healthy babies and others whe were miserably sick for one child and not a single symptom for the other and both were fine. I am 17 weeks tomorrow and I tell you I thougt I was done with this m/s but on Monday I puked and I did again on Wednesday, and I have been nasueous on the other days. I actually dreamed last night about eating and in the dream I ate two different veggies and was SO HAPPY because they tasted great and didn't make me sick. How sad is it that I dreamed about that? ANd now my big worry is is my child and am I getting the proper nutrition because so many healthy foods make me sick - basically the entire green spectrum aside from peppers - so sure, being sick is a reasurrance, but excessive sickness brings its own set of issues. Yesterday a corworker picked up chinese food for me at lunch and she mistakenly got me beef and broccoli instead of beef with black bean sauce and I had to scoop ALL the broccoli out because looking at it and smelling it made me ill. Plus I was so depressed that she mesed up because the reason I ordered the black bean sauce was that it came with peppers and onions which are on my short list of good vegies (peppers are my ONLY green veggie) so I was like - damn - now how am I going ot get my veggies in today? I wanted to cry but i couldn't complain because she did me a favor by picking it up. I ended up giving her the broccoli. Now I have to decide between do I take the zofran so I can eat enough and get some veggies in, or do I skip it and try to survive on what doesn' t make me sick and hop I am getting enough nutrition to keep us both healthy. I tend to do the latter, but it is not easy and sometimes I cave in so I can feel better and eat better. I have only taken it four times, but I still don't like the idea of taking it often. PLus it makes me constipated which sucks. ANd trust me, when you eat fewer veggies, constipation becomes an issue because your fiber intake is decreased.

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