I have been having even more new-and-exciting symptoms from my pregnancy that I will share for those of who how eagerly await hearing about my experiences (i.e. Becky).
First, I am still vomiting. A lot. That can't be good. I'm having a hard time staying hydrated, and I have been limited on the sorts of foods I can eat, so I simply don't think I'm getting enough nutrients. So that part is kind of scary. I'm terrified of taking a drug that makes my kid sterile or retarded or have extra limbs just because I'm a wimp, but the alternative is making me nervous. ANYWAY, enough scary stuff.
Last weekend I felt the baby move for the first time. It is a very strange sensation that is almost impossible to describe. Imagine someone filled a water balloon to about the size of a cantaloupe and placed it between your hip-bones. Then imagine that there is pop-corn popping inside the water balloon. That's as close as I can come to describing it. Lately, Pop-corn has started to activate during writing conferences at work, which is very distracting. There's no great way to explain to the student why I suddenly stared off into space with my hand on my belly. "Oh, sorry, there's just a tiny person banging on the walls of my uterus."
I have lately become front-load heavy. That means that everything on the front of my torso is way bigger than usual. This is very problematic with clothes. Nothing but maternity stuff fits, but I don't have much of a bump yet, so I just look pudgy. Sad face. The other weird thing is that I have begun to spontaneously lose my balance. At first I thought it was just dizziness, but now I'm starting to think that I actually have begun to shift my center of gravity, and this panda bear is not used to that. I have always had a firm, hip-based center of gravity, but now it's starting to move upwards.
I am looking forward to having a month off, starting next Thursday, and I will spend it getting things done and sleeping. Oh, and driving to Arkansas for Christmas. I will be meeting all of the Cartwrights that I didn't have a chance to meet before.
hooray! i love your descriptions. i don't know about how long vomiting lasts with pregnancy, but if you've started your second trimester your teratogenic period is over. what that means is that your babies organs are are already formed, now they are just getting bigger. so your chance of mutating them or having a five legged baby is small if you take stuff now. however, you still can screw up the function of stuff.
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