Dehydration and Little Heart Beats

So I am about 8 weeks along now. And the past few weeks have been a crazy roller coaster. And not the fun Disneyland kind, the scary, crazy six flags roller coasters. You know the ones that even if your stomach is empty you still vomit, yeah those rides.

So for over a week I have had "morning sickness". Now, most people know that morning sickness, is not by any means restricted to the morning. One thing I didn't know is that you feel horrible ALL the time, literally. I thought you feel sick and you throw up, but most of the day you feel fine. Well, maybe some people that have morning sickness are like that, but I'm not. I'm the sick ALL the time and I just want to fast forward and be done with all this. I'm either vomiting, whether there is anything to vomit or not, or I feel like it may happen at any moment. It's horrible.

So I went to the ER on Sunday and they gave me one bag of fluids via IV and some anti nausea medicine. My hopes that it would help were quickly smashed. I saw my OB on Tuesday, i'll elaborate more in a second on that, and she doubled the amount of the nausea medicine I was taking and told me to take B-6 also.

Well I spent all day Tuesday and all day Wednesday throwing up absolutely anything I ate or drank, even the tiniest sip of water would come right back up. By the end of the day I was exhausted, a little dizzy, and SO dehydrated. So John decided to take me to the hospital. This time we went to the Labor and Delivery Triage, which is where my OB told me to go if I have a bad day again. It was great! They saw me immediately, got me hooked up to an IV with fluids, gave me some more anti nausea medicine and kept the IVs coming till I could eat without throwing up. I went through 3 bags of fluids and by the end I drank some water, ate a pear cup, and had a few bites of a sandwich and it stayed down! The doctor also came in and did an ultra sound and prescribed me a different kind of nausea medicine that has been working like a charm today! So I'm a happy girl :)

Back to my OB appt. At the appointment they did an ultrasound and I got to SEE, not hear, the baby's heart beat. It was super cool! They even sent me home with a few pictures from it. The only downside was I thought they wouldn't give me one at the first appointment so I didn't have John come with me... Well went I went to the Labor and Delivery Triage, they did another ultrasound and John got to see the heartbeat! SO AWESOME!