More than once I've had to grab the arm of my chair and breathe after being struck by lighting from the inside. It's weird and a little scary. Either the baby is pushing on a nerve, or we're pioneering some kind of fetus-administered intrauterine electroshock therapy here.
If I'm lucky, the jolts will do something for my mood. There are many colors in my emotional rainbow right now, and they change without warning. Most of the time, I'm prickly and wishing everyone would just leave me alone. Then I'm irritated about being so irritable.
And oh the Braxton Hicks contractions! They get meaner every day. If I'm on my feet for long stretches, it starts to feel like I have a bowling ball under my shirt. A bowling ball full of wolf eels.
What else? That whole thing about keeping my weight gain under 30 lbs. (or even 35 lbs.) this pregnancy? Straight down the drain. At 24 weeks, I'm up 20 lbs.
Twenty-four weeks huge.
(Rob insists, "But huge in a good way!")
Here's what happened: sleep went from basically fine to not-so-much a few weeks ago, and I have since replaced resting with eating. Handfuls of Brazil nuts, while delicious and healthful and chock full of selenium, are not low-calorie.
I'm trying not to let the weight-gain bother me. It's not exactly optional, after all. Westley continues to comment on my size often—usually loudly and in public—and I bite down hard and tell him, "It's just going to get bigger." I think I'm telling myself, too.
Complaining aside, I'm very glad that this little girl seems to be so strong and healthy. Every time I woke up last night to change positions, she was rolling and shimmying. She makes giant, sweeping, belly-warping gestures. I like to think it means she's happy in there. At one point I took Rob's hand under the covers and placed it on the most wiggly quadrant.
"Wow!" he exclaimed. "Westley never jabbed that hard!"
I knew my children would never be completely alike. But I'm amazed by just how different this baby is from her big brother, and she's not even here yet. Except that she's totally here, in the middle of the night, when I want to call the cops on the party in my tummy. Quiet down! Some of us have to work in the morning!
But much like my ever-expanding body, not sleeping through the night is only going to get worse before it gets better.
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9 comments:
Taser baby sounds like quite the adventurer already, even with such a small area to explore. The body changes and all are so strange to come to terms with aren't they? I mean, obviously it's all happening for a reason and it's great and all of that sun-shiney stuff, but it's kind of hard to adjust to a constantly changing body, even if it's a good thing. Good thing there's such an awesome reward waiting on the other side. :)
24 weeks pregnant or not, you're still smaller than I am. And taller, which is further proof that life is not fair. But my niece is cool. I can tell I'm going to like her already.
You look awesome. I gained a bunch of weight really fast too after being sick and not being able to stomach much more than water for the first 13 weeks. It did slow down though!
You are all belly! Rob is right about the "huge in a good way" thing. You look really fabulous. I would feel really cliche being all "you're glowing and so beautiful and make pregnancy look so easy!" - but it would be true. You really are all of those things.
Also, Audrey just ran up and said, "Fwiend! We payed, payed, payed! Leedoh baybee in dere." (Friend! We played, played, played! Little baby in there.) So. She thinks she knows you and that you have played before.
You look beautiful, Noelle! I also gained a considerable amount of weight early on in my pregnancy (15 lbs my first trimester) and still managed to maintain a healthy weight gain total (38 lbs). Your body does what it needs to do and if you're taking care of yourself (which clearly you are) you're totally fine, better than in fact. I will repeat that you are all belly and glowing and all that good (if cliched) stuff. You're a healthy mama and you look absolutely gorgeous!
Look how thin your face is! Big pregnant belly and tiny everywhere else is definately huge in a good way :)
Maybe she just needs some extra water to swim around in, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. You look stunning (as usual). I say that with all the envy in the world. If I were taser baby, I don't think I'd ever come out, looks pretty cozy to me.
the perfect approach I can describe Braxton Hicks is tightening in your stomach. essentially the most signalificant factor to recollect with both an irritable uterus or Braxton Hicks is that although these contractions are not essentially an indication of preterm labor, they could thoroughly result in it. I not too long ago realized that just about each description of what contractions really feel like - whether or not they are Braxton Hicks or true contractions, says that it really seems like your uterus is contracting.
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