First Trimester

Everyone knows that pregnancy looks different for everyone, but you never know what it’ll look like for you. Here is how my pregnancy looked like for me. 

As I said in the Finding Out I Was Pregnant post, my first sign of pregnancy was nausea. I never threw up, thankfully. 

Well, one time I did, but not because I was nauseous. My gag reflex was in hyper mode during most of the pregnancy. I was eating a hamburger and a piece of bread got caught in the back of my throat. My gag reflex kicked in and I barely made it to the sink before I threw up a little. 

Anyways back to the nausea. It caused me to lose a couple pounds because I wasn’t eating very much the first few weeks. I still went to work, where I was a cashier at a ski resort. My nausea did cost the ski resort some money. 

I was selling tickets to a couple and they asked to pay $80 in cash and the rest on a card. I seriously believed I was going to throw up. I finished the transaction as soon as I could so I could step aside and lean over a trash can. 

I finished it too soon though because I forgot to grab the $80 off the counter. I am assuming they took it back because when I counted my drawer before leaving work, I was $80 short. Thankfully my managers were graceful to me.

My husband and I went to Phoenix for thanksgiving and we stayed in my in-law’s camper. There was a tornado that had touched down just a few miles away from us, which never happens in Arizona. 

As you know tornadoes cause a lot of wind, so much wind it was swaying the camper. I felt like I was on a boat in the middle of the ocean. It was the middle of the night and so I didn’t want to leave the camper. 

So I stuck it out and felt like I was going to throw up for a good few hours. I considered throwing up knowing I would feel better. But my husband told me it was in my head and that I didn’t need to throw up. So I decided against it and I’m glad I did because it might have made me throw up whenever I felt nauseous. 

Maybe I am having mom brain, but nausea is the only thing that sticks out about the first trimester, other than the short snowboarding season.

I was able to go snowboarding a few times in the first trimester. I fell on my stomach one time and I called it quits after that. 

Write in the comments what your (or someone you know's) first trimester looked like.

Here is Josh and me at Copper Mountain in Colorado.

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