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Anastasia’s pregnancy diary - weeks 34-36
Great timing
Why is it that human beings choose the most inopportune times to make enormous, sweeping life changes? Here I am, big as an elephant, and we’re moving house. This is the first step on the road to move to America – we’ve sold our house and we’re moving into a rented flat for a few months before we leave London for good.
So here I am, sitting on the floor of our bathroom, going through our Boots warehouse of toiletries, wondering why I never looked here before I re-stocked our toothpaste supply. We have about four full tubes hidden in the depths of this cupboard.
It’s my job to decide what goes on a boat to America, what goes to Oxfam or family and friends, and what goes to our temporary flat. Try making these decisions when your ribs are getting kicked to shreds, your belly is sticking out so far you have to negotiate your way on hands and knees in order to stand up, and your brain is overloaded with information about epidurals and breast pumps. It’s not easy. I’m crippled by indecision….will I fit into my black trousers after the baby? Should I keep them in London or send them away and let ignorance be bliss? What else will I be able to wear? How will the weather be this spring? Will my hair fall out as they warn you it can? If so, do I still need a blow-dryer? Brain overload. Need ice cream.
I’m FINENick won’t let me move anything, of course, but it is simply an impossibility to move house and not move anything. I spend four days bent over or on my hands and knees, sorting through vats of stuff and, by the end of the fourth day, I can barely speak. My back is killing me, my muscles ache, and I feel like I weigh about ten tons.
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