Pregnant Pause
So, yes, I’m pregnant. Wahey! The third month was the charm, it seems. Today I am 8 weeks 6 days pregnant, although to be honest, it looks as if I’m about 4 months at this stage. Check it out – although not if you’re eating.
Niiice
I am calling it my little bloat. I don’t know how much of that is actually biscuits (I have been eating rather alot of biscuits) but it’s seriously alarming. Although I have a massive bloated belly, I haven’t actually put any weight on.
My clothes are starting to become uncomfortably tight, and so I’ve bought some groovy two way stretch material with which to doctor my skirts. Now all I have to do is find the energy to… well, do anything really.
I’m stuck in a kind of personal hell. I am so tired and so lethargic that I can’t motivate myself to go out and swim. If I don’t go out and swim, and do what I actually want to do, which is lie on the sofa and eat biscuits, then I hate myself, and am covered by a settling gloom which makes me feel useless, fat and slobby. During these moods, I find it hard to believe that Gordon won’t just divorce me because I’m a disgusting slob who does NOTHING.
My hair is greasy, I have spots, and I feel sick 70 percent of the time. So far, I have to tell you, pregnancy pretty much sucks. Oh yes, I forgot about the constipation! Woo, that one’s a killer. A couple of weeks ago I nearly lost the plot because I hadn’t been for six days. And you wouldn’t believe how much trapped wind six days worth of unprocessed crap can produce. (I realise that this could normally be classed as Too Much Information, but fuck it. It’s my blog.)
I’m a joy to live with, and no mistake.
Roll on 12 weeks, when I can see the little critter on the scanning screen, and it all starts to feel real. It will start to feel real then, won’t it?
Well?
May 12th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Wooohooo looking good!
Maybe that bump is just one big fart then?
Go to the docs and get something to make you go… a necessity, and it’s all free when you’re preggers.
And, it will become real at 12 weeks, and you’re likely to feel a little less like crap.
xxx
May 12th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
Early pregnancy has nothing nothing nothing to recommend it. It does get better. That’s all I can say.
May 16th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
Congrats Rachie….and no, early pregnancy is neither health kick nor beauty treatment…but later. You’ll see. (Small baby isn’t health kick or beauty treatment either but can be pretty nice when not yelling its head off.) Good luck. x
May 18th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
Don’t believe what they say… it doesn’t get any better, you just get fatter and then get stretch marks… oh no don’t start me on the stretch marks. And the constipation doesn’t get any better afterwards either. Oh god I’m making you feel worse. Hey maybe it was just me! Good luck!
D
May 19th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
wow. what a highly flattering photo… tee hee..
fatigue, you say. better, you say…
erm. i would like to say only 31 weeks to go, but then that’s where the fun really starts. lots of love to you both plus minibump,
happy nearly 10 weeks??
May 28th, 2009 at 12:42 am
Woot! Congratulations!
May 31st, 2009 at 2:53 pm
See, the kicker about second pregnancies is that while you know what to expect (that’s an advantage), your body also knows what to expect and starts moving furniture around so that you look pregnant five minutes after conception (that’s not funny).
Congratulations and good luck!
June 7th, 2009 at 3:01 am
I am exactly as preggers as you, exactly as miserable, exactly as bloated. I take Milk of Magnesia and it works–one dose at a time.
Exercise, as horrifying as the thought might be, helps depression, fatigue and constipation. Do it for just a few minutes if nothing else.
God I feel you here. This is my fourth baby and the first that made me feel like this. I feel fat, greasy, ugly, disgusting.
Husband disagrees. Hang in there! I hear the 12 week mark brings some kind of ease!
June 22nd, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Greasy hair and spots? Definite signs of a baby girl. I could be wrong… but you’re leaning towards a girl.
As for the constipation, I feel your pain. I’m currently having troubles not only pooing, but farting as well. Don’t even get me started on the stomach cramps. Luckily, so far no morning sickness (*touch wood*)
Anyway, congrats! There is no greater joy than parenthood.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Groeten uit Holland
September 14th, 2009 at 1:50 am
I miss your blog, Rachie. Will it be back after you have the baby?
I certainly hope you’re feeling better by now.
October 2nd, 2009 at 4:59 pm
Hey,it apparently gets better. bleh I’m almost 6 weeks and I feel like a grizzly bear(tired,sleep all the time, my hairs growing fast..I make growling noises with my ass. etc). I found as soon as I started taking a prenatal vitamin that everything moved more easily in the belly dpt. (I’m taking one that’s easy on stomachs). I can’t believe that’s you at 8 weeks though, that baby’s gonna be a biggins;) all the best!