ginger I'm boiling and being quite millitant about keeping the heating to the absolute minimum. Very pleased I am at home and can be in charge of it! Poor dh has got a bug of some description and despite the fact his burning up wants to sit next to the heater on full blast.
The sleep and sickness thing is harder and really does make you feel rubish. I'm still getting sick and and off at almost 26 weeks, unfortantly despite easing off a for a few weeks is starting to get worse again. I was the same with dd, it was such a relief when she was born; sickness, heartburn and leg cramps dissapeared. I feel like a wreck this time with how achey and stiff I am.
As for how to cope. I have to get up a move gently for at least 15 mins every hour or I find I feel ten times worse. Sitting on the birthing ball helps too. When I was working while pregnant with dd I was lucky enough to have a fantastic manager who gave me a longer lunch break so I could nap and short breaks to eat/drink uninterpted every couple of hours. She also sent me home early when I was under the weather to rest and do bits of paperwork that were portable. But if I remember you're work aren't very supportive?
Have you talked to anyone about dehydration? I worked through sickness with dd and really worried about it as at times it was near enough impossable to keep water down. I saw a lovelt dr about it who said if I was still able to acheve things at work I was highly unlikely to be at risk of becoming dangrously dehydrated. I was told if I kept sipping drinks (I found lucazade sports bottles amazing for this) I would actually be keeping down a lot more than I throught, even when I was throwing up more volume than I'd taken down. I think he said a lot of it was likely to be made up of siliva and stomach acid. I know you really struggle with anxisity anyway so might not help.
marmite sorry the family situation has got you so annoyed. It's horriable to be kept awake by things that you really have no power to change. The night before last I was feeling rather put out by the idea another dad at church clearly throught dd she hand over her little barbie doll she was playing with before the under 5s session started as his daughter spotted it and wanted it. She's a lovely little girl but his responsable for her on a sunday morning and never brings anything for her to play with, expecting everyone else to 'share' their things. Unfortantly dd and a most of the other children are now at the age where 1 toy keep them entertained until the covered session start so there isn't anything to share. He'd already had a toy off another parent who was left strugging as her child was now had nothing to do. Then she spotted dd brushing her doll's hair and wanted it. He while he didn't allow her to take it as she wanted to do he was very loud about how he was sure dd would share soon! Before eventually having to take her into pre-school room to play. She was still talking about it when I saw her at toddlers yesterday and her poor mum was very embarassed. Just her dad has some intresting parenting ideas, I just want to tell him to put a bloody toy in the bag for her not just a bag of crisps (which epically fail to distract her for 20 plus mins) if he doesn't want to sit with her it the play room.
Although guiltly will admmit that dh's family are in the same position as your ils with regards to christmas and have been since dd was born. But dh isn't particually keen to spend his time off with them due to a misserable childhood and inablity to ever do anything right where they are concened, and neither of us can justify leaving my parents alone for christmas day when ils have a houseful and in reality no room for us (literally would have had no where to put 7 week old dd down if we'd spent her first christmas with them). We're spending new year with them, seeing them boxing day and having our own christmas day with them between christmas and new year as we always do. But they are very put out about not getting christmas day with us again...and love questioning what we have got planned despite having know what was going on since september, so we both do the vage thing your bil was doing. Mil gets the same invites my mum gets but never accepts them so sees a lot less of dd and misses out on the specail things she's apparently desperate to do like visit santa or go on the christmas light bus ride. But it doesn't sound like your ils are in that position through their own fault, so pleased they'll get to enjoy time with your dd. Bump will be gc2 for them and none of dh's brother show any signs of setteling down yet. So for the sake of our marriage they have to put up with what dh feels able to cope with.