This blog entry is my complaint department. Although I absolutely love being pregnant, and can’t wait to be a mom, there are some areas of pregnancy that are a bit annoying. Yes, I am grateful for the position I’m in, but there are just a few things that get on my nerves. Mainly because I can’t control them. So here, for your reading pleasure, is what I like least about being pregnant:
1. Cramps – like you wouldn’t believe. It feels like I’m about to start my period any time now, but way worse. Being on birth control, I never really had cramps. The day I was supposed to start, I’d get a minute of cramps then start my period later that day. But this is an every day, almost all day thing. Especially if I move the wrong way or lift something. It feels like my uterus is tearing, even though my doctor says it’s normal and that it’s just my uterus stretching. Oh yea, JUST my uterus STRETCHING. No big deal. I call b.s.
2. Breakouts – I have been breaking out like a 12 year old girl. And only in certain spots. Every other week, I’ll have one in the middle of my forehead (awesome). Then I have a huge cluster of zits on my chin to the right of my mouth. I catch people looking at them while they talk to me. I want to say, “Yes, I realize that I have a huge pile of zits on my face. YOU need to realize that I have a baby inside me causing this. Eyes up buddy.” Once they start going away, then a cluster of mountains start again. They don’t start small either. They are instantly huge.
3. Beyond Gigantic Boobs – now for those that know me, you know that before I got pregnant, my boobs were not small by any means. How do you think I got pregnant in the first place? (Thank you! Thank you! I’ll be here all night. Tip your waitress.) But now, it feels like I have two VERY large bean bags sitting on my chest. When I lay on my back, they almost hit me in the face. I thought that I would have some leeway on my boobs getting bigger, but it happened almost as soon as the positive sign came up on the pregnancy test. I can’t hide them or tape them down, because they hurt so much. Nor can I lay on my stomach because they actually hold my upper body up. I’ve grown out of the very pretty bras that Kate bought me for my birthday and have already had to buy a new sports bra. God help me when I get into the 3rd trimester and the milk really starts coming in.
4. Backaches – this comes from a combination of my crappy chair at work and my huge boobs, neither which I can do anything about. Joy.
5. Constant Peeing – I am ALWAYS going to the bathroom. I counted the other day while I was at work, and I went 9 times. That’s more than once an hour. I get up at least twice in the night, and that’s after I stop drinking water an hour before I go to bed and go right before I lay down. Kate’s husband Jesse warned us to invest in toilet paper. He wasn’t kidding.
6. Highly Emotional – before I got pregnant, I would always give Kate a hard time about crying about pretty much nothing. Mainly commercials (but Kate didn’t need a baby in her belly to do that.) Now, it takes a baby on tv or a slightly sad moment for me to cry like someone just died. I watched an episode of Deadliest Catch the other day, and I was sobbing. Not just crying, but shoulder heaving, making weird noises sobbing. I’m just glad I got to the bathroom before Mike saw me.
7. Fatigue – as annoying as it is to be tired all the time, I don’t really mind it. I get to nap without guilt, go to bed early, and sleep in super late on the weekends. Actually, now that I think about it, cross this one off the list. This one is pretty awesome.
