CONTENT WARNING: Morning Sickness

When my mom got pregnant with me, my parents lived in an apartment with two bathrooms: one right off the master bedroom and one down the hall. My mom had horrible morning sickness that tended to strike in the wee hours of the morning, leading to my exhausted dad dragging himself out of bed to hold her hair back at 3:00 am on a regular basis.

One night, my mom woke up with enough warning that she decided to run for the far bathroom to avoid waking my dad yet again. This was not a good idea; she was physically holding her hands over her mouth to keep anything from spilling out before she got to the toilet. When she got there and started retching, she heard my dad’s sleepy, innocent voice from their bedroom.

Dad: “Honey, could you do that a little quieter, please?”

She graciously did not murder him. When she told him about the incident in the morning, he had no memory of it and was HORRIFIED. They were both relieved when the morning sickness subsided, though for very different reasons!