Up until now, I have refrained from writing anything about my pregnancy to share with my readers. However, I feel compelled to disclose the most unmentioned items about pregnancy that I had never expected before becoming a human incubator.
A little background about me pre-pregnancy includes my fitness commitment and my three year commitment to my partner. I was (and still am) addicted to the rush of endorphins I get when lifting and exercising in the gym and extreme levels. It was my goal to stay as fit and eat as healthy as possible during my pregnancy so bouncing back post-pregnancy would happen quickly. Fitness modeling was within reach when I got pregnant this spring, and I vowed to get back to that level and beyond after this baby is born.
Being pregnant and having babies is so fundamental to human existence, you may think that a women in her 20s who researched what to expect wouldn’t be caught off guard by her own experience growing another human being inside her. Wrong.
Things I Didn’t Know About Being Pregnant (The Good, the Bad, the Ugly):
1. You can be so sick for 4 months that you loose 10 pounds.
2. The “in between” phase where it is questionable whether you are getting fat or getting pregnant seems to last forever.
3. It is weird to slowly watch your own belly button turn inside out over a period of months.
4. When the baby starts moving and you can feel him turn inside you, you can’t help but think of creepy alien movies.
5. You and your husband’s new evening entertainment is watching your belling writhe and pop as your baby rearranges the furniture.
6. Strangers (mostly women) will invite themselves to touch your belly. If this annoys you, ask them if you can touch their boob, otherwise get used to it.
7. You will crave all the weird stuff like pickles and Mexican food at some point. But the next day, the thought of that “must have” food will make you vomit.
8. You may crave the smell of things, like BBQ sauce, and carry a jar around your house sniffing it like a cat on catnip.
9. Sleeping 10 hour nights becomes a must. Anything less and you will barf your breakfast.
10. Your husband will actually watch myriads of baby and childbirth DVDs with you.
11. You start saying things like “when our kids are older…”
12. If you have pets, you start to pity them because soon they won’t be the cutest thing in your life.
13. If you ever puke something, you stand a chance of never, ever wanting to eat that food again. Ever.
14. Around the 2nd Trimester, you will start waddling. It is impossible not to waddle, even though you know it looks silly.
15. Say goodbye to heels. You’ll give in and shop for granny flats because you can waddle in them much better.
16. No matter how fit you are, at some point fat will form in strange places where you usually never store fat.
17. Your condition will test your partner to the max. With all the special trips to the grocer and your weird and often vacationing sex drive, his true love and commitment will shine.
18. Going #2 is a 20 minute event. Constipation is time consuming when you aren’t allowed to push. One word: Hemorrhoids.
19. If you didn’t have busty boobs before, get ready for a Victoria’s Secret rack. Your partner may enjoy.
20. On birthing day, more things than just a baby can come out of your body.
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