pregnancy whine session FUN GIFS INCLUDED! :D

**disclaimer 9/8/12** This post is most definitely not to discourage anyone from getting pregnant!!! (: I am so thankful everyday that I am able to have a baby. It is such an amazing miracle! We were worried for a while that we wouldn't be able to and I am so so so so so so so so grateful that we are finally expecting. Just, as you probably know, it is not always a picnic. So I figured I'd hash out all my whining in one spot and just talk my symptoms to death. And you know what? It kind of worked. I slept like a baby last night after I wrote this! Don't worry, I won't make it a habit (: Now. Onto the whining:

9/7/12
I am tired of burdening my poor husband with complaints of the discomforts of pregnancy. I think he's tired of it too. So I'm going to complain here for you lucky folks :D
Like I said in my earlier post, I never threw up once in my first trimester. I felt nauseous, sort of like motion sickness, every day from about 4 pm until I fell asleep, but never once did I lose my lunch.
And then the second trimester happened. *dun dun dunnnnn* I know, I know, "But it's supposed to go away after the first trimester!" Wouldn't that have just been all too nice? No no, for lucky Caity over here, the barfing started in week 18. I haven't barfed in 2 weeks now but I'm feeling a muchhhh bigger sickness than motion sickness these days. Let me put it this way. Have you ever eaten bad shellfish? Gotten a bad lobster? Had old or poorly cooked meat?
I feel like that. Every day. From about 8/9 pm until I finally fall asleep. And then again when I wake up in the middle of the night for no apparent reason except sometimes to pee.*** And then again when I wake up in the morning. Only by then, I am starving and am forced to eat some form of cereal to sustain myself. Every single bite of breakfast is like that last bite of a meal you just had 4 helpings of and feel like you HAVE to finish out of principle at that point, but you feel so awful and gross and hate yourself for eating that bite. By 10 -ish the nausea subsides, enough for me to be INSANELY hungry and want to eat anything I lay eyes upon (edible or not) until I ultimately break down and eat something I probably shouldn't by 11. I tell myself it will just be a snack but I always, without fail, over-snack, spoil my lunch, and am not hungry until dinner. Where I pick at whatever I've lackluster-ly thrown together (I'm too tired to even stand on my own two feet, let alone cook with any enthusiasm, at this point in the day. Actually all day. You know that groggy, absolutely exhausted feeling you have when you just wake up that you know will ultimately go away when you walk out the door for the day? Turns out, when you're pregnant,  it doesn't go away! Whoopee!) AND THEN, after dinner, the nausea cycle repeats itself. Add a pretty much constant dull, throbbing headache on the back of my head and VOILA! Pregnancy!
 Oh and here's another fun one. There's a symptom of pregnancy some women experience called "Pregnancy Rhinitis", where basically, your nose dries up and you sneeze all the time, and sometimes get bloody noses. I am too impatient to read why this happens. Anyhoo,  this is annoying all on its own. BUT! It gets better! There is also a thing called "Round ligament pain" which is a sharp, painful sensation that occurs when you feel the ligaments around your uterus stretch about to accommodate its new size. And when you sneeze, it HURTS! I imagine it's what sneezing with a broken rib feels like. Only lower down in your abdomen. And lucky for me, I sneeze ALL THE TIME! Which, by the way, does wonders for an already throbbing headache. The constant sneezing also is no help to my always-full bladder. I seriously have to pee at LEAST every hour. Depending on where the princess is sitting (: She likes to camp out on my bladder.
And, despite what behavior she may have displayed at our last ultra-sound, she really does move! I love it when she kicks and rolls around. I just wish Bradley could feel it already--pretty sure my layer of stomach blubber  is greater than baby girl's force at this moment in time. She's a little too small and well "insulated" for Bradley to feel her yet, but I'm hoping that will change soon!
Despite all the complaining, I really am SO SO SO SO excited for her to get here! Feeling her move, knowing she's a girl, and seeing so many ultra-sound images is making everything much more real. Oh and getting huge too. That definitely makes it real. (PERFECT excuse to wear my yoga pants like, every day). On Tuesday, I'll be halfway done! I can hardly believe how fast the time has gone. From what I hear though, the second half feels about a bazillion times longer than the first. But that's ok. I still need time to get her space ready and buy her things and figure out what to call her andOMIGOSHSOMANYTHINGS!
ANNNNYYYYWWWAAAAYYYYYY if you have made it this far into the post, I congratulate you. If I could give a prize through these internet tubes, I would. Here's Jennifer Lawrence saying "Whoopie for you!" That will have to do.



Honestly, even if nobody reads this, I feel better now that I've had an empty space to dump all my complaints into. Because Heaven knows the folks around hurr are TIRED of hearing it! You know me, I'm a whiner!


I think I'm gonna have a popsicle/nightcap now and go to bed. Here's to hoping it doesn't give me heartburn!!!!!!!!!!!!

PS I think I should get a belly shot up here sometime soon....I don't even think I've taken a picture of it yet.....also, I think my next post should be about books. OK, CAITY OUT


***I started waking up in the middle of the night in my first trimester. I hear it's not super common, but I can count the number of times I've slept through the night during this pregnancy on one hand. I will never sleep through the night again until my children are in college. And even then, I'll be up all night worrying about them! SO A WARNING: if you plan on getting pregnant soon, note: THE SLEEP STOPS NOW! CHERISH IT WHILE YOU CAN!