...And the pregnancy goes
on. The fainting at least has subsided, so there's a plus, but the
promised energy boost after 12 weeks seems to have missed the bus... and
it must be one of those old horse-drawn buses, since I am 19 weeks now
and still can't bring up enough energy to walk more than 5 minutes.
Which is exacerbated by the fact that I get breathless after walking
only a few steps. And going up the stairs means usually that I choke at
the end of it, despite several breaks in between the two flights up to
my flat, and have to force a bit of water down my throat through the
choking and the exhaustion tears, which so far seems to be the best way
to get my breath back under control, well, after a while. Good thing is,
my hubby is now on constant duty to carry my bag and coat up ahead of
me, which makes it slightly easier to manage the stairs. I can only say
that I'm glad that this part, where my bump is just a bit bigger, is now
in winter where I have to wear all these thick clothes. Once the bump
weighs a few more kilos I think we would need a crane to get me up those
two floors, walking will be impossible!
Oh,
and another joy I have discovered, excuse me for mentioning this, I
know some people will frown upon such an indelicate subject, is the
impressively varied farting, from painfully explosive to sly and
unpleasantly odoured. It seems pretty everything I eat gives me wind,
which has a knack of appearing at the most inappropriate moments.
Seriously, my level of shame has been so much reduced by now due to
helplessly having to endure unstoppable farts in public, I wonder if I
will ever be allowed back into normal society... The alternative,
keeping them in, is unthinkable. Tried it, and the pain makes me double
over, sometimes even without me trying to keep it in but simply having
wind trapped... Another thing nobody has ever mentioned to me before
about the joys of pregnancy.
The
silver lining I keep reminding me of: all of this will go on the list,
and when she is a teenager and annoyed like hell by her mum I will
present her with all the things I had to endure to get her that far, see
who wins the annoy-the-other contest!
