I haven’t been able to blog as much as I wanted to this week, but this pregnancy has been a little hard these past several days.   I know everyone is different and my girlfriends, who were pregnant before me, had gestational diabetes, but even so, most of them didn’t really talk too much about it- anyway, I have been getting dizzy from time to time over the course of the last several weeks, but it wasn’t until this week, that it was followed by headaches and I felt like passing out.

I did some research on this before when I first started getting the spins and it mentioned I could have low blood pressure or low blood sugar.  I just assumed that since most of my blood was pumping straight to the baby, it would last for a short while and I’d bounce back once s/he is able to start producing their own.  Plus, I made sure to have some sweet treats here and there to keep my blood sugar up.

***Oh, and ladies, if you ever experience lightheadedness, try not to bend down/over to pick something up.  You will lose your balance and feel like falling right where you stand.  Get someone to help you.  I know my BD always tells me to ask him for help, but sometimes you forget and you can be sure you’ll get a rude ass reminder every time you do it.***

Let me tell you, on Thursday night at 7pm, I experienced severe headaches complimenting my dizziness and I felt like fainting.  I ate some dinner with bread to help ease the feeling, but it was not getting any better, so I brushed it off as lack of rest and decided to sleep early.  When I woke up at 5am, I still had the spins and the headache.   This was the worse feeling ever!  I had to call in sick and made an appointment to see my doctor.

It turns out, my blood pressure is low 96/58 and my glucose (though within range) was on the boarder of being low.   For some reason, I also lost interest in food in the last week.  This was probably due to the dizziness, which in turn, worsened when I didn’t stay nourished.  My doctor insisted my vitals were okay enough (that it was normal for the blood pressure to drop during the 2nd trimester) and what I was experiencing was more of a reaction to the pregnancy, but she heeded me to snack often.

I’m feeling better today, but one thing people sure don’t tell you about is the extreme side of dizziness caused by pregnancy.  I’m not sure what my little Pikachu is up to, but I sure hope s/he understands that they’re not helping themselves if they get mommy sick.  Just saying.