May be boring to you, but I want to document this stuff
Man, how did I ever manage to keep up with an online journal on a daily basis (and more often than that usually)?
I signed up for an account on WhatToExpect dot com, and according to the way they do the math, I'm actually a week farther along than what I said before. So with that post talking about how I felt in which week, just +1 to the week numbers. I'm finishing up Week 11 now.
So I guess Week 9 is when I started feeling normal-ish. I still occasionally feel icky, but overall I feel hungry when I'm hungry. The basement and the pantry still smell horribly. Grass doesn't always smell like graham crackers though, but yesterday, the smell was so strong that it made my head hurt (more). I had a migraine from Wednesday afternoon to early Friday (yesterday) morning, which then came back in the afternoon during the workday while I was meeting with a client at a local hospital. It was probably my fault because I hadn't had a lot of water yesterday. It was non-stop end-of-month paperwork, client, client, potential client interrupting session with client needing to talk and penciling her in after client, waiting for potential client, potential client not showing up, stuffing my face with food before driving out to see a client and getting back to the office in time to see another client, who didn't show, so I could have taken my time with my lunch and getting out to the hospital, but whatevah.... Yeah. Still, I should have been guzzling water the whole time.
Fatigue has gotten to me. I always joked that I had all the symptoms of pregnancy before getting pregnant, so I wouldn't know what to look for if I ever got pregnant, but it took a bit for the big symptoms to actually hit me anyhow. I'm always tired. But I rarely ever called it a night before 8:30 (a couple of times before, but those are outliers and not the norm). Last night, I was under the covers at 8:19. I woke up at 2:08, to AJ coming to bed after getting his video game fix. (In his defense, he hardly ever plays his games, and when he does, it's usually an hour or two, so coming to bed at 2:00 in the morning on a Friday night / Saturday morning is fine with me.) Then I was just AWAKE for two hours. I was comfy. I was sleepy. But I was awake. And then I fell asleep. And I woke up at 7:23 to dogs barking at each other outside. Anyway, I'm always tired. I want to go to bed early and sometimes tough it out. I wake up a few times in the night to pee (it's TMI, but it's also kinda common knowledge that that's to be expected in pregnant women). I wake up at 5:45ish to AJ's alarm and try to sleep (to no avail) until I need to get out of bed and get ready for work. By 10:00 in the morning, I want a nap, and that feeling doesn't go away until I go to bed, when the cycle starts all over again. I always tell myself that I'll nap when I get home from work, but then that'd make me late in eating dinner, and I don't want to throw off my appetite and risk feeling icky.
I read that fatigue is more of a myth, in that pregnant women don't need any more sleep than women who aren't pregnant. The fact is that odds are, women in general just don't get enough sleep. What makes pregnant women feel more tired is that their bodies actually tell them to get more rest.
I learned of a new downside to pregnancy (if I didn't say before, all downsides < the upside of creating life): expectant mothers cannot go to haunted houses. AJ and I live just a few miles away from an old insane asylum, which has overnight ghost hunts. We had plans to meet up with a number of friends from western Maryland this Halloween season to go on this journey, and we also planned on going to a number of other haunted houses (like to the Fright Farm in Pennsylvania, and we heard about a corn maze not terribly far away). This weekend, Doug Bradley is hosting the overnight ghost hunts at the insane asylum. PINHEAD is in my county, maybe 10 miles away (maybe a bit farther now 'cause he's probably sleeping to prepare for tonight's ghost hunt), and I can't see him because I'm pregnant.
And that's about it for now. Off to get my oil changed. Maybe my next post won't be entirely preggo-related.
I signed up for an account on WhatToExpect dot com, and according to the way they do the math, I'm actually a week farther along than what I said before. So with that post talking about how I felt in which week, just +1 to the week numbers. I'm finishing up Week 11 now.
So I guess Week 9 is when I started feeling normal-ish. I still occasionally feel icky, but overall I feel hungry when I'm hungry. The basement and the pantry still smell horribly. Grass doesn't always smell like graham crackers though, but yesterday, the smell was so strong that it made my head hurt (more). I had a migraine from Wednesday afternoon to early Friday (yesterday) morning, which then came back in the afternoon during the workday while I was meeting with a client at a local hospital. It was probably my fault because I hadn't had a lot of water yesterday. It was non-stop end-of-month paperwork, client, client, potential client interrupting session with client needing to talk and penciling her in after client, waiting for potential client, potential client not showing up, stuffing my face with food before driving out to see a client and getting back to the office in time to see another client, who didn't show, so I could have taken my time with my lunch and getting out to the hospital, but whatevah.... Yeah. Still, I should have been guzzling water the whole time.
Fatigue has gotten to me. I always joked that I had all the symptoms of pregnancy before getting pregnant, so I wouldn't know what to look for if I ever got pregnant, but it took a bit for the big symptoms to actually hit me anyhow. I'm always tired. But I rarely ever called it a night before 8:30 (a couple of times before, but those are outliers and not the norm). Last night, I was under the covers at 8:19. I woke up at 2:08, to AJ coming to bed after getting his video game fix. (In his defense, he hardly ever plays his games, and when he does, it's usually an hour or two, so coming to bed at 2:00 in the morning on a Friday night / Saturday morning is fine with me.) Then I was just AWAKE for two hours. I was comfy. I was sleepy. But I was awake. And then I fell asleep. And I woke up at 7:23 to dogs barking at each other outside. Anyway, I'm always tired. I want to go to bed early and sometimes tough it out. I wake up a few times in the night to pee (it's TMI, but it's also kinda common knowledge that that's to be expected in pregnant women). I wake up at 5:45ish to AJ's alarm and try to sleep (to no avail) until I need to get out of bed and get ready for work. By 10:00 in the morning, I want a nap, and that feeling doesn't go away until I go to bed, when the cycle starts all over again. I always tell myself that I'll nap when I get home from work, but then that'd make me late in eating dinner, and I don't want to throw off my appetite and risk feeling icky.
I read that fatigue is more of a myth, in that pregnant women don't need any more sleep than women who aren't pregnant. The fact is that odds are, women in general just don't get enough sleep. What makes pregnant women feel more tired is that their bodies actually tell them to get more rest.
I learned of a new downside to pregnancy (if I didn't say before, all downsides < the upside of creating life): expectant mothers cannot go to haunted houses. AJ and I live just a few miles away from an old insane asylum, which has overnight ghost hunts. We had plans to meet up with a number of friends from western Maryland this Halloween season to go on this journey, and we also planned on going to a number of other haunted houses (like to the Fright Farm in Pennsylvania, and we heard about a corn maze not terribly far away). This weekend, Doug Bradley is hosting the overnight ghost hunts at the insane asylum. PINHEAD is in my county, maybe 10 miles away (maybe a bit farther now 'cause he's probably sleeping to prepare for tonight's ghost hunt), and I can't see him because I'm pregnant.
And that's about it for now. Off to get my oil changed. Maybe my next post won't be entirely preggo-related.