08/18/2022
Time for a bumpdate! Week 24 and she’s growing beautifully!
She kicks all the time and we’ve started playing little games where I poke her back. I think she gets it!
I really didn’t realize how much pregnancy takes. Maybe it’s because my mom made her 10 pregnancies look effortless.
Or maybe it’s a giant conspiracy to keep us having kids.
If this post gets taken down, I’ll know it is 🙃🙃🙃
Anyway.
I was expecting a cute little baby bump and some morning sickness that was overshadowed with the joy of finally not having a period for a while.
I now miss my period.
I wasn’t expecting first trimester depression (thought that was a postpartum thing) and fathomless levels of fatigue.
I wasn’t expecting brain farts and mishaps and never ending forgetfulness.
Oh, what’s that? You want examples?
Ok how about the time I put a bottle of ketchup on a hot burner. Total disregard for the laws of physics.
Or how about the time I turned on the tap to do dishes and just walked away. That recent increase in flooding events hasn’t been weather related, world. It’s dishwater.
Back to complaining 😃
I wasn’t expecting my esophagus to have 1st degree burns (okay okay, a bit of hyperbole).
Or to experience stomach gas that had me considering a trip to the ER (true story).
Wasn’t ready for constipation and constantly achy bowels.
I didn’t realize I wouldn’t be able to brush my teeth without activating my gag reflex.
It’s crazy! It’s hard! And some of us get it way worse than others!
So reach out to the pregnant lady in your life and let her complain if she wants. I’m pretty sure we can stop pretending it’s not 9 months of hell on earth 😂 We’ll still have babies, I promise.
Because, even through all the pain, these crazy hormones have me beyond excited to meet my little one. I know it’s worth it.
And once she’s born I’m over the hard part, right? Right?!
