Lots to update! I just got back from a two week vacation in Hawaii. I survived the 8-hour flights without barfing! I felt pretty awful on the trip over and continued to have bad nausea in the evenings, but no barfing. Huzzah! I bought some ginger candy at a Japanese grocery store and it helped a lot, but I noticed in the second week (week 7 of my pregnancy) I wasn't feeling nauseous at all anymore, so that's good. My breasts have been pretty sore and I've had a fair bit of cramping. One day near the end of our vacation, I noticed some brownish spotting, but I googled it and this is apparently caused by the placenta attaching. I really noticed an increased rate of respiration on our hikes, and I wasn't as energetic as usual, but I really didn't have fatigue too badly. I was bummed that I couldn't do my SCUBA certification and couldn't go on a hike on the lava fields (too many unhealthy fumes), but I did go against recommendations and drive to the top of Mauna Kea to watch sunset. It's at an elevation of over 13000 feet, so they don't recommend pregnant women go up there due to the risk of altitude sickness. But I've read that sleeping at a high altitude is really the only risk factor, not maximum elevation reached during the day for a short period of time. I definitely didn't feel like doing any sprinting while I was up that high, but I really don't think it affected me that much. Also, I got really ill during our travels and had a few days of running nose, coughing, sneezing and congestion and a day of fever. My husband has it now. Poor thing.
I went to a cocktail birthday party today and kept drinking cranberry juice, telling everyone it was a vodka cranberry. No one seemed to suspect anything.
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