So I thought I had gotten off pretty easy being that I haven't really had much morning sickness to speak of. Or so I thought.
What I have been experiencing is constant hunger, the kind that makes you want to gnaw your hand off and feel like you are going to absolutely DIE if you don't eat.
So much so, that I have gained 10 lbs in the 7 weeks since I found out I was pregnant. For those of you that don't know, that is ridiculous, you are only supposed to gain about 4-5 lbs for your entire first trimester, if that!
The hunger is perplexing because it persists at inexplicable times, for example 15 minutes after I finish a meal.
I finally found out through some researching that SOME women experience as hunger what others experience as nausea, so basically I have had morning sickness, just that mine makes me inhale food instead of well, the opposite.
The other area where I seem to defy the norm is that I am 9 weeks and 1 day pregnant and I am most definitely showing.
Everything I read says you don't typically show until closer to 15-20 weeks.
See the semi-circle that has become my tummy? I never had that before. The thing about me is that when I gain weight, I never gain it in my stomach which has always been totally flat, instead I gain it in my butt, thighs and love handles. That is where the 10lbs is, not my stomach which for all its convexness is rock hard, not an inch to pinch.
I also wonder if the fact that my uterus is tipped severely forward also makes it sort of stand out more.
The good news about the hunger actually being morning sickness is that it means it should actually end around the same time that normal morning sickness does, at the beginning of the second trimester, which is only about 2-3 weeks away.
My ass and thighs can't wait!