My mom wins at life (16w3d) [linkspam]

She seriously, seriously does. XD

My house has been honestly atrocious for most of my pregnancy because I've either been too sick, tired or in pain to do much about it. Yesterday she came over and between her, Zane and some stuff done by me, half the house is a clean as the first few months we lived here. My mom did all my dishes, for which I could not be more thankful as I HATE WASHING DISHES. I'd rather clean toilets than do dishes, I swear. Zane did a wonderful job on the floors too in addition to the basement cleaning he did the day before. It's really awesome having such a clean front-half of the house, now to just tackle our bedroom and the second bedroom so we can move stuff out and around. Oh, and the laundry. Uggh.

This last week has been "interesting" to say the least. While nausea seemed to have all but fled on a daily basis, I discovered a new pregnancy thing that flares up in its place - ultrasensitive smell with hyperactive gag reflex. I can't count the number of times I've thrown up just because a smell was funny. This went beyond the dog treat aisle at Wal-Mart and freshly cleaned public restrooms to something as strange as my OWN house from being gone all day and my nose adjusting to a different set of smells. Hopefully cleaning helps make my house less of an individual smell for me so that the change from outside to inside isn't so shocking. And it's not even BAD smells alone that set me off, or strong smells only, just ANY smell that can start my gag reflex.

Another strange thing - nipple tenderness. PAINFUL tenderness where I didn't have any before. I really feel it in the morning when I'm so cold that they tighten up really tight, which seems to be when the pain starts. Haven't had it today or yesterday, thank God, but now I'm not sure if it's just a regular pregnancy change or my idea of wearing a sports bra to bed now (to restrain my boobs from stretching my skin TOO much from being so free) was a bad idea, since I'm not wearing one now.

Wore my maternity jeans for Thanksgiving - they are still big on me, but I wanted to have stomach room since I had been getting sick so easil from smells. I figure the fact they still are a bit big now is a good thing so they actually still fit come April/May.


Linkspam for me:
16 weeks - StorkNet
16 weeks - About
16 weeks - American Baby
Month Four - Parenthood
16 weeks - Amazing Pregnancy
November - Pregnancy.org (altered date to line up)
December - Pregnancy.org (altered date to line up)
General Calculator - gives week count for any day

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