by Lani Derrick posted in Pregnancy

When my husband and I decided that we were ready to start trying for baby #2 it was all excitement. We thought about how wonderful it would be for our son to have a sibling and that another child would complete our family. NEVER did I realize how much doubt I would have in myself during my second pregnancy.
A little background here, during my first pregnancy I had no sickness, no scared feelings, none. It was all joy, I was thrilled to be expecting, took the weekly bump pics, and had fun posting them for family and friends to see on my social media. I had some swelling towards the end of my pregnancy that made me a little uncomfortable but i pushed through it and kept working and exercising until the weekend before I went into labor. Fast-forward a few years and we are expecting baby #2. I'm thrilled again to be pregnant and everything is running smoothly until I hit 7 weeks. I was visiting my parents a few hours away and got so sick that I wasn't able to drive myself and son home. That was just the beginning of 7 weeks of constant vomiting, lightheadedness, and feeling too exhausted to function.

Looking back I am still amazed at how sick I was. I struggled to manage medications that would help with the sick feelings and vomiting, yet ended up leaving work for 2 months because I couldn't make it through a nursing shift. At 14 weeks, much to my disbelief, the nausea subsided and I was able to make it though the day without vomiting. Th...