1: Morning sickness is just as bad as EDS nausea, but it doesn’t ease with sleep and when I’m not actively wanting to vomit, I am always slightly queasy.
2: My body gets confused easily and forgets what it ought to be doing – things like regulating blood pressure and keeping my internal core temperature stable are optional, apparently.
3: An embryo the size of my fingernail takes a remarkable amount of energy to keep alive.
4: My stomach gets very large very fast in the first few weeks and then doesn’t grow so much between 14 weeks and 25 weeks. See below, photos from the pregnancy with Isaac in 2008:
See? SEE???
5: Pregnancy is merely the purgatory you have to endure to get a baby. If you’re lucky, that is.
6: You cannot take a decent photo of your slightly enlarged stomach, without either a) looking merely chubby or b) contorting yourself.
7 weeks pregnant – fourth pregnancy, third baby (if we’re lucky).
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12 responses to “Things I had forgotten about pregnancy”
i’d chop my right arm off for 9 months of purgatory! i also hope to one day relish all day sickness for more than a couple of weeks [my longest experience to date].
tough yes but all worth it at the end 🙂
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Absolutely – the end result is worth it. And as much as I am not enjoying being nauseous, it’s rather comforting to know that things are hanging in there.
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exactly 😉 x
You next, yes? With a sticky pregnancy that stays, despite the odds. Thinking of you. x
Seeing the swelling of my internal organs makes me look like I am pregnant, the hormones from the exploding ovaries is making me act like I am pregnant and the meds I am taking for my back make me nauseous I am EXTREMELY jealous of you right now.
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Yes, everything going to plan, I’ll get something other than anger management courses out of the next nine months. (I’ll have it noted that I have not actually stabbed anyone, despite wanting to.)
7 weeks passed already??
Wow, it won’t be long now!!
removes tongue from cheek and wanders off….
Sqweee!!! Great wee bump you’ve got there, missy. 🙂 xxxx
Ahh the things I don’t miss about pregnancy. Once you’re feeling those amazing kicks and roll overs in there…I’ll definitely be feeling so jealously. 🙂
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Thankyou for the pregnancy posts and pics, a beautiful way to bring in the new year. 🙂 I’m crossing my fingers for you guys for an easier pregnancy than the others, but if not, a healthy baby. XxX
Oh V! I did my magical disappear from the interwebs trick again and entirely missed the fact that you are with child! It’s weird, I’ve had two miscarriages and each time I was pregnant with a baby that went to full term the very next month. I think sometimes my PCOS addled ovaries actually work a couple of months in a row and then go back to being crapulent again. Anyway, yay, yay, yay! So very thrilled for all of you. xxxxx