The groupie in me

Posted on April 26, 2009 by Heather Laura Clarke

AMAZING news! My friend C is pregnant!!!

Since starting this blog about my future plans, I have obviously had a baaaaad case of baby fever. So finding out one of my friends is pregnant is the equivilent of someone blogging about home decor and finding their friend has a show on HGTV.

Yeah, I’m a preggo groupie!

Darling Husband and I are beyond thrilled for C and her hubby. They are the first of our friends to get pregnant, so it’s exciting to be able to openly discuss all-things-baby with another couple.

Of course, as soon as I found out the happy news, I was babbling on about Laptops to Lullabies. I dragged over the laptop and showed off my little blog, and told C all about my online friends who are also trying to get pregnant.

C read a couple of posts and was even wearing a BellaBand, one of the items on my wish list! It was like my blog come to life!

So naturally, I pestered C with tons of questions — oh, the joys of being friends with a pregnancy-obsessed girl like me. In the name of higher preggo education, here are a couple of interesting things she told me about morning sickness that you won’t read in What to Expect …

Her morning sickness started about six weeks in.
Yes, it does happen morning, noon and night, just like we’ve heard. Boo.
No, crackers do not help (unlike all the books say).
You can feel it coming on, so you’re able to make it to the bathroom (I inquired about if she had ever puked at her desk, which is my nightmare)
It can be frequent, but it’s not a lot at a time.
She is still sick, at 14 weeks, but it’s finally getting a bit better.
She is hoping not to be the pregnant girl who is sick for the whole nine months. Fingers crossed for you, C!
Excessive morning sickness means the baby will be smart, according to a study!
Before getting pregnant, she had motion-sickness and car-sickness, and her doctor said that might be why she has such bad morning sickness. This is bad news for me, who gets woozy on the Merry-Go-Round!