I can't believe it's been so long since I lost blogged!
I'm now 22 weeks and 2 days pregnant. Little guy/girl is an active little booger these days and has discovered my bladder. It must be great fun to push or jump on because that's a very common occurrence! lol. The all day sickness stopped FINALLY...about 2 weeks ago. I had a really bad day with nausea yesterday but I did not puke, so that's a win! I'm quickly learning that if I over do it, especially at work, I pay for it. It seems to take 2 days to recover from one VERY busy day. In the next couple of weeks I will be slightly lowering my hours at work to see if that helps me as well.
Wayne has been amazing. I have been very limited on being able to cook/clean due to being sick or sensitive to smells (I'll touch that one in a bit). It's been an adjustment for me, mostly mentally, feeling like a failure as a wife (as I previously blogged) but him stepping up, not complaining about having to do more than his fair share around the house, running for random cravings, back rubs, foot rubs, etc has really been an amazing thing and so much appreciated. I don't know how single mom's do it. I would be lost without him.
So, since there isn't really much to report on.... which is a good thing at the moment... I thought I would take a moment to do a little blog within a blog. The rest of this blog is titled
"The shit they DON'T tell you about pregnancy"
There's a great book called "What to expect when you are expecting". It's like a bible if you are pregnant. And while some of this is written there, it's almost more along the lines of fine print sometimes. So here's the parts of pregnancy I have learned that I feel people leave out when discussing the "greatest" time of your life.... (please note the sarcasm) (and this may be an ongoing "series" in my pregnancy and into motherhood... someone's gotta call this shit how it is!)
1. Peeing
This is not just the very beginning or the end. I have yet to sleep all night since finding out I was pregnant without pee breaks. And they are more and more common and intense. Last week I was worried I had a UTI. Surely it's not normal? Nope. Totally is. And as baby becomes active he/she thinks it's a trampoline. I thought I was going to pee my pants at 5pm in rush hour this week.
2. Mood swings
Sure. These aren't really that secretive. They don't tell you the intensity of them though, and that you turn into a freakin' honey badger (ya know, honey badger don't care!) I either cry at silly stuff (which I do in private/secret more than public or hope my husband is looking at me) or snap. Last week a few people on facebook had pissed me off, and well, the sensor is gone. Not that I ever had a very STRONG sensor between my brain and my mouth. But, now? It doesn't even exist. I can sometimes hear the attitude flowing out of my mouth, but honey badger lets it roll.
3. Acne
Shouldn't we outgrow this shit as a teen anyways? Why for the love of god must my face look like I'm 15 again? And if you are using creams, becareful NOT to tell ANYONE this, because then the unsolicited advice about how acne creams cause babies to be born with tentacles and horns begins.
4. Unsolicited Advice.
Now, I've touched this before, but it's worth discussing again. Let me start off by saying if someone who has been there and done that has some advice that really helped them.... for the love of god share the wisdom. If you are a man, or have never had a person growing inside you, something you heard about that a friends friends sister posted on pinterest is really of no interest to me. Or saying that you don't need maternity clothes with the way modern clothes are designed (again, from someone without a baby or pregnancy history). Or a man saying that you have been sick because you are stressed. Or someone saying because THEY needed a c-section... YOU will need a c-section. Or that because the doctors have told me conception would be difficult and it wasn't, that I should prepare mentally because this will "PROBABLY" be my only child. Or discussing friends who had miscarriages or still born babies. Ain't nobody got time for that...especially this honey badger.
5. Sense of smell
This is wicked. The smallest foul smell smells so horrible you think you will die. Food smells soooo good when you want to eat, but when you are nauseated, someone can open a loaf of bread two houses down and set off the nausea. Seriously. I have joked about becoming a drug dog. True story. 2 weeks ago we went to a food festival in the city. We were BEHIND a food truck (couldn't see what the menu was or anything). Wayne smelled and said "smells like roast...." I smelled and said "nope... that's..... cheese fries, cheeseburgers, and MAYBE hotdogs...." It was cheesefries and burgers. I actually amazed myself. And here, cheese fries aren't a common thing at all. Going into a shopping mall is odd. You get smells from the stores and then the lovely body odor off random strangers. Yum. Not..... And don't even get me started on public toilets.
6. Food cravings
While this isn't really a surprise, what is surprising is that they aren't always the STRANGE combinations you hear about. For a few weeks all I wanted was chicken mcnuggets from McDonalds. Not anywhere else. not store bought, McDonalds. (wtf kiddo???). Or pizza with banana peppers (which is a food we don't even have here....). Chocolate bunny ears. Just the ears.
7. Movement
Finalllllllly feeling the baby move is an amazing thing. At first it's sooooo subtle that unless you are really focusing on it, you may not even realise you are feeling it. Once you do, you lay in certain positions in hopes for that little flutter again. Once they become stronger, you don't have to be feeling for it. Hell, you can be asleep, and you will know the baby is awake...because you too will be awake. It's not always comfortable places/locations that the baby decides to go nuts on. Cervix, bladder.... anything is fair game. And still have four months of crazy baby in-utero aerobics to go. I had no clue how intense the movement was. Wow.
So there are 7 of MANY things they don't tell you about pregnancy. There will be more to come... I'm sure of it. I could type more now but... I'm tired and may take a nap. lol
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