Anna Cusatis: Right now, we have two little boys, Giovanni who is almost four and Luciano is eighteen months old and—we’re really excited about this new baby. Our new baby will be born in February and we hope to have a large family. This pregnancy has not been real easy so far that—
Well, at the first two pregnancies I—I was sick, I thought was very sick. I was really nauseated from—like four two five weeks to about fifteen weeks but it was manageable. This time, I got to start to get sick around four or five weeks and by week six, I was so dehydrated, I have to had to go to the hospital like a fool --, I just couldn’t keep anything down.
So, week seven, my doctor decided to put me on this – which continuously given me medicine underneath my skin and it helps the nausea and the vomiting, helps me keep food down.
Well, the first thing for me they had to do was just get dehydration under control because once you’re kind of in that, vicious cycle of just being dehydrated—the more you’re dehydrated, the more you get sick and you just can’t get out of it. So the first thing they had to do is to give me the AFI fluids, and then after that, when I went to my doctor, he told me that they can give you just nausea medication like Phenergan and—that’s the most popular one, there are several others—that’s the most popular one.
The problem with that is it makes you really really—it just knocks you out. So, can’t have that with two little boys running around at home. So, they have this new option which is called Zofran which doesn’t—in my case, it doesn’t help with the nausea but it helps keep the food down. There is available in pill form but in my case, it just wasn’t enough, I need it to be—cause the pill, you have to take it like every eight hours. So, it just wasn’t enough medication for me so he only [Unintelligible 0:02:30 - 0:02:32] he wanted me to just immediately go in pot cause I have – had gotten so depleted and—you know. I lost a lot of weight and I just was, I needed to do something fast to help get me come back to normal.
From what I’ve been told and for what – is—this actually is medication. What it does is—doesn’t take a nausea away, in my case, it really doesn’t help me in nausea at, I’m still nauseated 24 hours a day— But it works on a trigger—well, it triggers something in your brain, whatever it is in your brain that makes you vomit. It does something to block that’s what’s help you keep your food down. So, since I’ve been on it, I’ve—you know, I still get sick every once in a while but it’s a lot better than before, whereas before, I couldn’t keep down any liquids, any food, nothing—
I feel like I’m doing it all—but yeah, it makes so much different. I remember when I was pregnant with our first little boy and it just like—okay, I’m pregnant and I’m sick so I’ll just take medicine and – now sleep—you know, and it was like easy.
And then with second one it was—you know, same with this time it’s just been so much worst and I’m— See, it’s been real difficult, it’s been real difficult just to kind of—it just feel like you have been used constantly and you got that – that I’m not being there for the—you know. I’m not—it’s hard, it’s really hard to fix some food because the smells and all just make you feel sick—so that’s then, that’s been a challenge to meeting their daily need but I’m trying.
It’s—I was thought this – work, that if I—if I was as sick till February would be worth it. I mean that’s—you know, but I’m very excited about feeling great and being hungry again because that’s one of these things about being pregnant, you don’t have to eat, -- certain food—you know and I’m just not there yet. So, I can’t wait for that, I can’t wait for being able to – maternity clothes and want to eat, cause it’s worth it.
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