I have had some brown spotting for the last four days that looked like it used to before a period. I hope it actually turns into a period. If it doesn't I guess I can take ANOTHER pregnancy test sometime next week. I am so exhausted and shaky these few days also.
I am burping much more than I have in the last few weeks too so I wonder if that is hormone related. My boobs were so sore a few days ago but seem to have calmed down a lot.
I am so hoping to have a period so that I can track my cycles and know when I ovulate. Trying to track ovulation has been such a chore, I have had quite a few days of the cervical fluid consistent with ovulation.
I have been gaining weight consistently too. I should put myself on a diet to try to lose some of it.
My husband and I are usually quite healthy eaters though and our healthy meals probably help. A few days ago we made a zucchini lasagna that was delicious. Yesterday we celebrated so we got KFC and ice cream from our favorite ice cream place. This morning we had bagels with cream cheese for breakfast.
I am taking a month break from my additional folic acid. I have been taking a folic acid pill in the morning and my prenatal before bed. The High Risk OB suggested this with my Crohn's disease as it makes a lot of birth defects less likely. It is a huge benefit to the baby and prenatals usually don't have as high of a content as he suggested. I want to see if the burping that I have continuously suffered has anything to do with excess folic acid though. It is not healthy for a person to have too much folic acid and I have been on the pills for 7 months.
I get to see my Gastroenterologist in two weeks and I am anxious to hear what she thinks about the burping if it is still an issue by then. I have been on the Imuran that was supposed to help with that for a month now and I was told that it can take six weeks to regulate in my system and see results. That was why I did the short stint on steroids. I am not having pain or diarrhea anymore.
When I see my Gastroenterologist I am going to see my friend and we are going to help lighten each others hair. I haven't done anything with my hair in 10 months. I am naturally a light dirty dishwater blonde, which is pretty enough but I like have extremes on myself more. I like my hair quite dark or quite light with my pale complexion. It makes me look less bland I feel.
The sun does lighten parts of my hair, I get some pretty highlights but I don't spend too much time outside in the sun because I am allergic to the sun.
Last week I finished "The 21 Undeniable Secrets of Marriage" by Dr. Allen Hunt. I received this book for my Bridal Shower from my mother. You can get a free copy if you follow the link I attached.
I was triggered by the book both before we got married and earlier in our marriage because it features heavily on the importance of children in a marriage. I am a woman who has sought nothing but motherhood since I was very young and my husband and I used to not agree on the desire for children. He wasn't ask open to foster care or adoption as he is now.
The book had triggered me because of my health and the potential in each and every one of us that we have to become infertile and not be able to create life with our beautiful bodies that were created for it. I didn't know if my husband and I would be able to create life with our love no matter how much we wanted it.
Now I am in a better place and gave the book a new chance and I thoroughly enjoyed the relatable language used by Dr. Allen Hunt. He also suffered Ulcerative Colitis and that was both the scariest and hardest time in his marriage and also the most beautiful and growing time in his marriage, It forces the couple to bind together closer and I related very much to that chapter of his book. Crohn's flares throughout my life have defined many of my relationships showing me who is worth staying and we grow closer and those who are not worth it and leave me in my time in need.
The book is a self-help book designed for couples to read together and work through as a workbook.
With twenty-one chapters each focusing on a different "secret" and after each chapter is a "Real-Life Help" designed to help you embrace the twenty-one secrets in practical ways.
I would suggest reading the book slowly together as a couple and practice these Real-Life Help sections. I liked the idea of weekly best so you have time to marinate and really think about that "secret" it can help you incorporate them into your daily life together even better.
Give the book a try! You might find it helpful too and you can't beat the price of free!
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