Kristie’s Pregnancy

Yes, I haven’t got a chance to talk about my honey’s pregnancy.  Isn’t it crazy?  She is more than three months pregnant now, and has gone through a rather peaceful 1st trimester.  However, ever since 2 weeks ago, she started to have a higher tendency on morning sickness, and even worse, itchy skin.  It is not the typical itch, she gets rashes and small bumps all over her waist, belly, chest, and further up to a portion of her neck; and the itch is very unbearable, as I know Kristie wouldn’t give up bearing the itch if it is tolerable.  We did some search around the web and seems like some population on the web has experienced this and it is known to be “PUPPP” (Pruritic Urticarial Papules and Plaques of Pregnancy)

We found Naomi’s article to be very helpful, but the common suggested solution, being “Grandpa’s Pine Tar Soap,” is not available on any of the four local pharmacies, we could only order it online.  We called Kristie’s OBGYN medical center, which has a urgent care hot line opened on the weekends, and they paged the on-call doctor to contact us within 10 minutes.  The doctor said she found this symptom to be rare and suggested Kristie to take Benadryl and/or Benadryl Cream 2%, which makes Kristie really hesitant as she insists a drug-free pregnancy…  She is now asleep, but not sure how long she could be asleep.  I’ve left the Benadryl on her night table just in case…