The unbearable congestion

I feel absolutely clueless! I'm almost right at 16 weeks right now. He or she is the size of avocado!

The daycare situation is still coming along. At least we have plenty of options, some close to home and others closer to work. Our commute from home to work is only 10-15 minutes, though, so neither option will be bad at all. My firm partners with a daycare in Midtown and not only pays half the tuition, but also keeps a space reserved for us. So we already know, if all else fails, we have a space there. We just liked the one by our house better. I'm actually going to view one more, today, too. When A started looking into it, he found out that PwC will pay for part of it, too, no matter where we go. These are things they don't normally tell you about unless you specifically ask!

On another note, the pregnancy congestion is KILLING me. Apparently the mucous membranes of the nose start to swell from all the pregnancy hormones circulating in the body, and the stuffiness may only get worse as the pregnancy progresses! I swear to heaven if mine gets any worse my nose might actually fall off. I was up at 4am holding my head over a steamy sink to see if that helped (it didn't). I tried sleeping with a steamy rag over my face (no help there, either). The only decongestant we pregnant ladies are allowed to take is Pseudoephedrine, but I tried that, and it didn't work for me. I'm drinking hot water with lemon, honey and ginger, doing the saline nasal sinus cavity rinse (which really grosses me out), eating chicken noodle soup (for dinner last night and I have more for lunch today) and plenty fruits for extra vitamin C. I even tried sleeping propped up and ended up sleeping with a box of Kleenex last night, literally had my arm around the darn thing! It's a good think A is traveling this week, because I'd have kept him up all night (I think the dogs were annoyed with me)!

I tried calling my doctor about it, but the nurse just told me to call my regular doctor and offered no more help when I told her that I didn't have one, yet, because we just moved here. I asked Miriam about it, and some people here at work, but everything they suggest is stuff I've already tried. It didn't start until this week, right around the exact same time I got the email update from the What to Expect website with the subject line "Feeling Stuffy? Nasal Congestion at 16 Weeks Pregnant". Lovely.

At least I never had morning sickness.