Morning Sickness? Misnomer.

For those people who think morning sickness only happens in the morning, I'm about to share with you of one of big lies I've discovered about pregnancy. It's not just morning sickness, it's middle-of-the-night, early morning, regular morning, afternoon and evening sickness. It stays with you and it's unpredictable how to shake it. What works one day will most certainly not work the next, and I am speaking from three days of experience here. 3 DAYS. That's all it has taken and I'm no expert at pregnancy, but I'm suddenly very good at having so-called morning sickness. Once I got home from my recent business trip in Texas things have gone downhill for me in the eating and drinking department. Misery!

The problem is two-fold:
1) I'm not the kind of gal who falls ill. I work out when I have a head cold, I don't shy away from swimming because I just washed my hair, I run to beat traffic lights, bike around town in the rain, and I'm generally pretty tough. But this so-called morning sickness thing is knocking me out. And it's really cramping my style, not to mention causing fear every time I put something in my mouth.

2) I love to eat. My pal Kayla asked me recently what I do for fun and remembered my reply. Apparently, I told her I like to eat. So when eating became a problem a few days ago, this became a frustration of massive proportions. For example, the first thing I truly managed to eat today was half a tomato. And a few hours later, after thinking and trying not to think about food, I have managed to hold my California and spider rolls for about 3 hours. This is a 72 hour record. Yay.

I've identified the problems, and here are the solutions (according to the Internet, which so far has been my main source of pregnancy information):
- Eat Saltine crackers. I swear, the Premium brand is in business thanks to us pregnant ladies. This was working for a while, but now that I'm dehydrated, the salt thing isn't so appetizing.
- Eat many small meals. This shouldn't be a problem for me since I graze anyway, but the definition of 'small' is different in my current condition than in my normal state. So I have to change this from eat many small meals to eat the same number of meals, only much, much smaller.
- Try some ginger. This may actually be working, since I ate all the ginger I could get my paws on at dinner tonight. I love it anyway, so this is good. However, I know from this afternoon that too much ginger can also be a bad thing. I won't elaborate on that one.
- Don't lie down after eating. Who does this?
- Don't drink when you're eating and vice versa. I'm puzzled by this, but willing to try anything at this point.

There are all sorts of other suggestions, many of which include basic common sense (don't stand on your head after you eat! Don't sunbathe!) but I'll be sure to share whatever works, since I'm sure to be suffering more in the days to come. Yowza.