Most of my issues were anemia, which was blissfully easy to mostly fix. Yay, iron!
Love isn't brains, children, it's blood, blood screaming inside you to work its will.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
Spike's Bitches 48: I Say, We Go Out There, and Kick a Little Demon Ass.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Connie Neil - Apr 27, 2015 3:43:22 pm PDT #18896 of 30002
brillig
sj - Apr 27, 2015 3:45:04 pm PDT #18897 of 30002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Kate, I'm glad your pregnancy with Seabiscuit is going so well. I'm starting to notice changes in the way I walk as well.
Kate P. - Apr 27, 2015 4:41:07 pm PDT #18898 of 30002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
And I'm sorry yours has been so difficult, sj! I have a lot of sympathy for what you're going through. Even an easy pregnancy has plenty of discomforts and indignities, let alone what you've had to deal with. I think you're handling a tough situation really well.
sj - Apr 27, 2015 5:02:52 pm PDT #18899 of 30002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Thanks, Kate. I'm very grateful that ltc is showing all signs of being healthy so far. So, I often feel guilty for not enjoying pregnancy.
Kate P. - Apr 27, 2015 5:10:24 pm PDT #18900 of 30002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I know what you mean, but seriously, I don't know many people who enjoy being pregnant. The end result is absolutely worth it, but the process is mostly not a lot of fun.
sj - Apr 27, 2015 5:22:32 pm PDT #18901 of 30002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I know what you mean, but seriously, I don't know many people who enjoy being pregnant.
I do. Many who had such perfect, easy pregnancies. It was the best time of their lives, blah, blah, blah. Or at least that is what they like to post on facebook or tell people after the fact. I have a distant relative at the moment who is constantly posting pictures of all this fabulous food she's eating with the hashtag pregnancy problems. Meanwhile, I keep reminding anyone who is still listening of the list of foods I would like brought to me in the hospital after ltc arrives.
Ginger - Apr 27, 2015 5:28:59 pm PDT #18902 of 30002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Bill Cosby had a routine in which he was the first to jump into what turned out to be excruciatingly cold water. As he gets out of the water, his wife says, "How's the water?" and he thinks, "Why ... should ... I ... tell ... her?" I suspect that's the situation with many of the "best time of their lives" pregnancies. Also, maybe there's some kind of memory alteration that takes place so that the species will survive.
Hil R. - Apr 27, 2015 5:29:48 pm PDT #18903 of 30002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I saw something once (I think it was in an article about women who decide to become surrogate mothers) that said that about 5% of women really enjoy pregnancy -- like, they happen to have the right combination of bodies and hormones that they just feel much happier when they're pregnant than when they're not. Most of the rest just tolerate it, knowing that the baby at the end is worth it, and then another small percentage just have a terrible time while pregnant.
meara - Apr 27, 2015 5:34:28 pm PDT #18904 of 30002
Didn't flea do really well at being pregnant? I suspect I would not.
Connie Neil - Apr 27, 2015 5:35:06 pm PDT #18905 of 30002
brillig
So very, very glad I left the experience to those much braver than I.