Early Morning Cravings and Other Thoughts on Pregnancy...
Orange juice. I *really* want a glass of orange juice right now. I'm seriously thinking about driving around Monroe until I find a place that's open (maybe a fast food restaurant or a gas station?) that will sell me orange juice before 4 o'clock in the morning. Unfortunately, I'm betting I'm going to have to wait until at least 5am. (By which time I hope to be asleep again.) Oh! That's right! I have oranges!
Oh my goodness, oranges taste *really really really* good!
In the past three days I have consistantly woken up between 330 and 430 in the morning... hungry. I really need to start keeping some sort of snack next to my bed. Because now that I have my toast and my orange it's going to be a while before I can go back to sleep. In general I don't seem to have specific cravings when I wake up in the middle of the night... I'm just hungry. This morning definitely seems to be an exception to the cravings rule, however. I guess I'm going to start having to figure out what places in town are open 24 hours besides Lowe's (which unfortunately sells very little in the way of snacks).
A close male friend asked me yesterday how I liked being pregnant. I told him that actually, I really like being pregnant -in spite of all the crazy symptoms. He wanted to know what symptoms were associated with pregnancy. !!!
Besides the long list I've given here in past entries I don't think I ever mentioned the headaches... those seem to have passed for the most part but for a couple of weeks there I seemed to be getting them on an almost daily basis. And the rash is long since gone too. I don't think I mentioned that at the time early because it seemed a little embarassing.
But really, in spite of everything, I truly am enjoying being pregnant. Especially, now that I'm feeling the baby kicking on a regular basis. (That's what my aunt, the nurse, tells me I'm feeling when I describe to her the sensation I've been experiencing over the last week or so.) It just makes me grin to think of Pickle inside kicking me, possibly trying to spur me on to movement: My aunt mentioned that research shows that babies tend to kick primarily when mothers are not in motion. They think this may be due in part to the fact that the walking motion rocks and soothes the baby so that when the mother stops the baby starts kicking just to get itself moving again.
And now that I actually have energy to do stuff again (honestly I think being drained of all energy in the first trimester really has been the worst part) I'm feeling pretty good.
I really get a big kick out of my expanding belly too. As women, we all have days where we feel a little bloated -like our stomachs are just popping out grossly. That's why we all have our "fat day pants." But I don't have to worry about that now. It's such an incredible relief to feel that if my belly arrives before the rest of me wherever I go that it's supposed to do that because I'm pregnant! :) Plus I really like all the comfy maternity clothes. And people are being incredibly helpful in providing me with both useful and pretty things. Just this past Friday my neighbor (who has a 1+ year old daughter) leant me a bunch of maternity clothes. And all my friends and family have been providing me with other things for weeks now. I love looking pregnant.
And tomorrow we find out whether it's a boy or a girl. Hopefully they will give us pictures to take home from the ultrasound. If they do you can bet they'll be scanned and up on the web in no time. :)
Oh my goodness, oranges taste *really really really* good!
In the past three days I have consistantly woken up between 330 and 430 in the morning... hungry. I really need to start keeping some sort of snack next to my bed. Because now that I have my toast and my orange it's going to be a while before I can go back to sleep. In general I don't seem to have specific cravings when I wake up in the middle of the night... I'm just hungry. This morning definitely seems to be an exception to the cravings rule, however. I guess I'm going to start having to figure out what places in town are open 24 hours besides Lowe's (which unfortunately sells very little in the way of snacks).
A close male friend asked me yesterday how I liked being pregnant. I told him that actually, I really like being pregnant -in spite of all the crazy symptoms. He wanted to know what symptoms were associated with pregnancy. !!!
Besides the long list I've given here in past entries I don't think I ever mentioned the headaches... those seem to have passed for the most part but for a couple of weeks there I seemed to be getting them on an almost daily basis. And the rash is long since gone too. I don't think I mentioned that at the time early because it seemed a little embarassing.
But really, in spite of everything, I truly am enjoying being pregnant. Especially, now that I'm feeling the baby kicking on a regular basis. (That's what my aunt, the nurse, tells me I'm feeling when I describe to her the sensation I've been experiencing over the last week or so.) It just makes me grin to think of Pickle inside kicking me, possibly trying to spur me on to movement: My aunt mentioned that research shows that babies tend to kick primarily when mothers are not in motion. They think this may be due in part to the fact that the walking motion rocks and soothes the baby so that when the mother stops the baby starts kicking just to get itself moving again.
And now that I actually have energy to do stuff again (honestly I think being drained of all energy in the first trimester really has been the worst part) I'm feeling pretty good.
I really get a big kick out of my expanding belly too. As women, we all have days where we feel a little bloated -like our stomachs are just popping out grossly. That's why we all have our "fat day pants." But I don't have to worry about that now. It's such an incredible relief to feel that if my belly arrives before the rest of me wherever I go that it's supposed to do that because I'm pregnant! :) Plus I really like all the comfy maternity clothes. And people are being incredibly helpful in providing me with both useful and pretty things. Just this past Friday my neighbor (who has a 1+ year old daughter) leant me a bunch of maternity clothes. And all my friends and family have been providing me with other things for weeks now. I love looking pregnant.
And tomorrow we find out whether it's a boy or a girl. Hopefully they will give us pictures to take home from the ultrasound. If they do you can bet they'll be scanned and up on the web in no time. :)