Pregnancy Schmegnancy

So, since it's been 3 months since I posted I thought I'd do a quick run down of those 3 months. I'll try not to bore anyone - though it has been a pretty easy pregnancy - all things considered. I didn't get a lot of the pregnancy symptoms most women get - no constant cravings, only mild heartburn (though it is frequent), no supersonic smell, no sciatica, no urge to run to the bathroom every 10 minutes (yet), no raging hormones (there are hormones but I don't go from rage to tears in a split second), no stretch marks to speak of (though this weekend I found little red marks at the ends of where I already had stretchmarks on my hips- hopefully they don't extend what's already there!), and no braxton hicks contracts (again - yet).


But I didn't get off easy. It has been hard to breathe (as in after I climb up the stairs, change, and climb into our bed I have to sit there for a few minutes and catch my breath - and I'm using 3 pillows now to keep my head/chest elevated), it's definitely hard to get comfortable, and in the last few weeks I can't stand or walk more than about 10-15 minutes w/o my back killing me. I wake up almost every day between 3am and 4am and cannot get back to sleep, I get charlie horses that also wake me up in the middle of the night and keep me sore for days. I got the linea negra which isn't bad - just different, my belly button is slowly but surely popping out and looks weird along with a faint blue circle about an inch wide around it. For the first time in my life I have allergies which brings a runny nose and incessant sneezing along with the new ability to start a 2nd sneeze while I'm in the middle of the first sneeze (I think I've mentioned this before). For about a 6 weeks I had serious round ligament pain, I have heart burn multiple times a day, I've completely lost my patience for stupid people and slow drivers (not that I had a lot to begin with), and more recently almost constant hunger and the inability to sit in a booth b/c my belly butts up against the table.


BUT - and I want this on the record - Eric has said that I have not been hormonal or bad about complaining, that it could have definitely been worse. I was, and I think he was, definitely expecting worse. I wasn't any more irrational than I usually am or any harder to live with generally so that was a pleasant surprise. His main complaint - the pants that I have decided to live in while I'm at home. A pair of grey, drawstring, capri cotton pants - which wouldn't be so bad except that they are a few sizes too big so he says they make me look like I live in a trailer park. Now if I could just put my hair in pink curlers and have a cigarette hanging from the corner of my mouth I'd be set. :) But I can't help it - they are the most comfortable pants ever and when you can't breathe and you can't get comfortable in almost any position you try, you don't much care what you're wearing as long as it's loose and comfy!


The only real problem we had with Kayla, which wasn't even a problem, was my doctor being nervous b/c I didn't feel her move a lot every day. She would go in spurts of a couple days of lots of activity and then a few days of not a lot and that had been her pattern for a while. I mentioned it to my dr about a month ago and she sent me for a biophysical ultrasound so I was in the hospital for about 4 hours hooked up to a fetal monitor to monitor her heartbeat, and they did an ultrasound to be sure she was moving and her heart and lungs were working. All was well, as I knew it would be, but I wasn't about to turn down yet another ultrasound (that made for my 8th! - 2 early on, 2 private ones, the gender determination one, 1 at the high risk doctor just b/c i had 2 previous very early miscarriages, 1 echo cardiogram b/c that high risk doctor couldn't see her heart well enough, and then this biophysical one - man that was a lot of pictures of Kayla - but those last 5 all said she was a girl so that better be what pops out!). Anyway, turns out she was moving a lot - I just couldn't always feel her. She had her little hands in fists and I asked "Is she going to punch me?" just kinda joking and the ultrasound tech said "I think she has been!". Ha ha ha. But, I'm so glad I didn't feel everything b/c now that she has turned head down and her feet are all up in my ribs I definitely feel more movement, harder movements, more uncomfortable movements. I cannot imagine having to feel that for months on end - weeks will be plenty for me.


And, to top it all off, I only had one stranger touch my belly. Who does that? I really wish I could have said to her "oh, now my turn!" b/c she definitely had her own belly but didn't have the same excuse I have. Unfortunately, I couldn't do that b/c it's a lady who now works a couple aisles down from me and I have to see her on a regular basis so I can't exactly be that rude to her. She also came over and just stared at me one day - said she was admiring the baby. Hello? She's staring at a belly for goodness sake! She's just weird. I dread the day I take Kayla up to work b/c I know she'll be there - I don't even know this lady's name hardly but I have a feeling she's going to be all over Kayla so I'll have to find a way to prevent that.

So, anyway, that's about it in terms of they physical aspect of the pregnancy. I'll have to write another post on the emotional side of things.