Sick--woe is me

So these last few days have not been fun at all. Being sick is not fun at all. I don't normally get chest colds, but I got a whopper this time. I can handle head colds. It just feels like you got ran over with a train, am I right? This chest stuff, and pregnancy is for the birds. Trying to get a deep enough breath and then cough is a joke. Trying to sleep and do this is out of the question. So here I am at night, 3 pillows to keep me upright so my nose doesn't get too clogged, then I feel a cough coming on. Great, get up on almost all fours, lean over and try and cough and hack up a lung. SO much fun. Don't worry about Kevin, he is snoring through the whole thing. I am the one with the little, to no sleep.

My question is...what do I take? Pretty much anything you can take while pregnant, you can take while breastfeeding, however, the opposite is not entirely true. It has to do with the fact that you share blood with the baby in pregnancy, go figure! Anyhow......It's fun to try and figure out what you can take and can't take. i'm not one to take a whole lot of anything during pregnancy, so this is even more fun. And to top off my complaining....I have this jaw thing that kicked in a few days ago. Never had a problem like this. So i am VERY open to ideas on what might be wrong. If bite down too hard on my back teeth, my jaw socket hurts. In the morning, it feels like I am ripping new muscles to get it to open. then it's okay after awhile, but that pain is always there. Any suggestions?

I promise I try not to complain, especially during pregnancy. I just figured, this is my diary/journal, right? Instead of my brother sneaking in my room to read it and get me in trouble 3 months later for things I did, I'd let you all read now and save me the trouble of getting upset when people "touch my things".

On a lighter note, my doctor's appointment last week went great. I am still measuring right on schedule. With Justin, I was always measuring 2-3 weeks bigger (and WHY they didn't change my due date is beyond me) so this is great news to me. I have gained 19lbs so far, and you may think that isn't a lot. However, at 20 weeks I had gained 1lb and the other 18 caught up with me in 8 weeks. Yeah, my sis in law said my body was playing catch-up (I think she was trying to make me feel better so I didn't start to cry at her house!). I hope my body is done.

This picture is when i was 6 months pregnant with Justin. I'm actually only a little bigger than this picture (or it's my imagination that I am!!)