Susanne Remic is a primary school teacher, freelance writer and parenting blogger. She writes at Ghostwritermummy and Maternity Matters and in between all of that she regularly wins mummy of the year awards for running around after her two children, aged six and 19 months. This is her pregnancy blog: an online diary of her third pregnancy as she strives to overcome two difficult births, one angel child and one awkward toddler. Join Susanne as she shares every step of her journey from bump to baby!
When you’re pregnant...
By Susanne Remic on 13 Oct 2011
During pregnancy, nothing is simple. Even rolling over in bed takes a little bit of forward planning, such as: will you roll via your back or front? Will you roll all the way over to perform a little hop out of bed at the same time?
Will you remember to support your heaving bulk of a belly to prevent those sharp stretching pains that keep you awake for at least thirty minutes each time? Do you even need to roll over after all? Isn’t it simpler to just stay in the same position until you need the loo? That’s going to be soon anyway, let’s face it.
When you’re pregnant, emotions can take over and the smallest things can be majorly life-changing for a few moments. That ‘strange look’ someone gave you at the bus stop can reduce you to tears, whilst the evil culprit is blissfully unaware that they’ve ruined your day. The fact that you haven’t been on any courses at work since you announced your pregnancy has conspiracy theories running amok in your head... until you find out that nobody has been on courses, due to all the budget cuts.
Oh, and forget about looking at those pictures of your first born eating her first ice-cream or having her first whoop down the slide. They can keep the tears flowing for days.
When you’re pregnant, your skin, hair and nails do NOT glow. Instead, your nails break at every opportunity (and this makes you cry), your hair needs washing three times a day (this also makes you cry) and your skin erupts like a teenager. The latter definitely makes you cry. Show me a pregnant lady with a ‘glow’ and I will show you a lady coated in sweat after being over-heated and uncomfortable after tossing and turning in bed all night.
When you’re pregnant, you can smell everything, good or bad. Your fabric conditioner sneaks up on you all day so you’d better choose carefully. Once preferred fragrances can suddenly smell bad and you know when a cabbage has turned before you even open the cupboard door. It’s not nice.
When you’re pregnant, sleeping, eating and getting up from chairs is difficult at times. Absent-mindedness is rife and you might temporarily forget you’re no longer able to sprint up the stairs from a sitting position in twenty seconds flat. You might find yourself on the floor with your head between your knees...
When you’re pregnant, having a bath is frustrating. Firstly, your bump sticks out of the water and makes you cold. Deeper water just means that you’re forced to strain your neck to keep your head up and prevent drowning. Too hot can bring on the dizzy spells and too cold is a waste of time, especially when your belly is cold to begin with.
You have to shave your legs in the bath, since doing it in the shower makes you dizzy, but you can’t quite reach forward enough or lift your legs high enough. The result is spiky knees and ankles. Lastly, getting out of the bath takes two people and all of a sudden your dignity is swirling down the plug hole with the water...
Goodness, am I really only 20 weeks? Only half way?!
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