[DiamondHeart]

Oh my gosh, I am so right there with you. I want to say, "I'm going to bed. Wake me up when the baby's due."

The life-giving goddess glow lasted about a week and a half. Then the ever-constant peeing, the throwing up, the nausea, the fatigue, and oh yeah, THE STRETCH MARKS AT EIGHT FREAKING WEEKS, sorta kicked the fun out of this whole shebang.

I understand how lucky I am to be pregnant and to get to be a mom. Just wish everything else didn't come with it.

~Diamond~

[Juliana13]

Hang in there! Stretch marks at 8 weeks??? How lucky are YOU!

My mom and 2 sisters suffer(ed) with bad morning sickness: morning, noon and night, for the whole 9 months. Multiple hospitalizations for dehydration, feeling like crap because they couldn't eat or sleep, and all the other fun you are mentioning here. So I don't ever really get envious that I couldn't give birth to my own children. I just look at my sisters (1 sister's pregnant right now - SOOOOO miserable for her! - she's not allowed to drive anywhere, due to pregnancy seizures -and she has other kids) anyway, I just look at them, realize that that is how mine would probably go, and I am SO okay that I can't get/stay pregnant! Maybe my infertility is a blessing..... ??!! (I also used to work in labor and delivery, and while that is beautiful and amazing, I am okay to skip that step, too!) LOL!! I used to wonder why God didn't fix my infertility, after all the procedures I went through, it wouldn't be much of a stretch for Him... Then I finally had the thought, maybe God is doing me a favor! Maybe he is being merciful to me by having me miss this experience...

I still would love to give birth to a child, but since I can't, It helps to have that perspecitve!

And shoeshopping - I hear you. As a nurse, we hear lots of horror stories (somehow that is fun when you're at work on your lunch break - share all the interesting cases you know about...) I get worried, too. Just remember that the reason we hear all those stories is that they are the exception to the rule. Most babies are healthy and perfect -

Hang in there guys. You have my sympathy -