Why is it that, when you admit that you are tired, some people are so quick to point out that you also LOOK tired?\u00a0 Hahaha well yes, there is no denying that either.\u00a0 Yesterday, this happened when I first got to work, and I was like, my day just started–this is as good as it’s gonna get.\u00a0 As I type this now, it is 6:46 a.m., and I have been awake for about an hour and a half.\u00a0 That’s after tossing and turning for I think most of the night.\u00a0 I tried to be good and go to bed early, but as I explained to my coworker, going to bed earlier just means waking up earlier.\u00a0 I max out on 7 hours of sleep a night, no matter what (last night may have been closer to 6).\u00a0 And with a 3 year-old now, naps are not a luxury I can often afford.\u00a0 (Except today, because it’s Sunday.\u00a0 Pete has already been informed that, if just one of us gets to nap today, this time it’s gonna be ME.)<\/p>\n
So yeah, I’m absolutely zonked.\u00a0 Which I’m equal parts totally frustrated about because life outside work falls apart (I completely cease to function when I get home from work)…and completely happy about because it seems like this is how I do the first trimester.\u00a0 I’m not puking, but this actually makes me FEEL pregnant.\u00a0 With S, I called this my narcoleptic zombie phase.\u00a0 I’m not sure if it’s that bad yet, but it might get there.\u00a0 It feels good to feel like things are working as they should this time.\u00a0 Especially after waking up from a dream where I found I was hemorrhaging.\u00a0 (There were some distinct clues that it was, in fact, a dream.\u00a0 But it still felt totally real.\u00a0 I really believed it was happening.)<\/p>\n
(Here’s where I remind you that this blog may be TMI for some readers, though this next bit is pretty tame when it comes to me and TMI.)\u00a0 There have also been some subtle body changes lately.\u00a0 Namely, my boobs.\u00a0 (Apparently it’s a thing for girls to name their boobs?\u00a0 How many actually do that?\u00a0 My boobs have always been nameless.\u00a0 Unless you consider my “left one” and my “right one” as names.)\u00a0 Anyway, last couple of days, it’s almost like I SHOULD name my boobs because they have taken on very different personalities.\u00a0 A few days ago, I noticed that they were getting noticeably firmer.\u00a0 Which is normal pregnancy stuff.\u00a0 But sadly the same size.\u00a0 (It was more of a perk with my first pregnancy when the boobs got slightly bigger, enough to ultimately buy new bras, but the rest of my body hadn’t really changed yet.)\u00a0 Now, in the last two or three days, I can say my right one is still pretty much the same…and my left one just keeps growing.\u00a0 LOL.\u00a0 I’m still not sure how I feel about this.\u00a0 It’s a little bit problematic I suppose, but it’s so funny I can’t help but crack up whenever I think about it.\u00a0 Still, I hope they even out a bit eventually….<\/p>\n
They other symptom I’m now having, which I wrote about once before, is the bloat.\u00a0 I start my day looking less pregnant.\u00a0 And by the end of the day, if I really relax my abdomen, I could probably get strangers asking me when I’m due.\u00a0 It’s funny to look back at old belly pictures because my new normal (not-pregnant) is probably beyond my 9-week<\/a> picture from before (I didn’t get any pics between 9 weeks and 13 weeks, so I don’t really have an accurate representation).\u00a0 And right now, depending on time of day, I feel like I look more like my 13-week<\/a> or 16-week<\/a> pictures.\u00a0\u00a0 I know I’ll show “for real” sooner this time since it’s not my first pregnancy, but it’s still kind of interesting and fun to see the body changes.\u00a0 I will be glad though when it definitely looks like a baby and not just general roundness around the middle. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n I could also talk about Baby Brain, but that may be enough for its own post.\u00a0 Sometime, when I have time and I’m not super tired.\u00a0 So…someday.\u00a0 Time to start my day!\u00a0 (Tomorrow…first appt with Dr and hopefully first scan.\u00a0 I will do my best to update.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Why is it that, when you admit that you are tired, some people are so quick to point out that you also LOOK tired?\u00a0 Hahaha well yes, there is no denying that either.\u00a0 Yesterday, this happened when I first got to work, and I was like, my day just started–this is as good as it’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/babyg.brainstormwarning.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/babyg.brainstormwarning.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/babyg.brainstormwarning.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/babyg.brainstormwarning.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/babyg.brainstormwarning.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/babyg.brainstormwarning.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":761,"href":"http:\/\/babyg.brainstormwarning.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions\/761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/babyg.brainstormwarning.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/babyg.brainstormwarning.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/babyg.brainstormwarning.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}