To: Body
From: Self
Date: August 25, 2011
Subject: Pregnancy Lament
Dear Body, I know you are growing a precious little human that I can feel moving around inside of me. I want it to grow and be healthy and smart and cute, there are just a few things I am looking forward to when you are finished incubating this fetus:
I would like to sleep on my back again.
I would be overjoyed to be able to speak more than one sentence without getting out of breath.
It will be just lovely when I can eat a meal in which dessert does not consist of Tums.
I want to be able to jump, run, hike, and ski again, but would be content if I could just do one sit-up.
It would be a welcome change to cough or brush my teeth without gagging.
Perhaps it wouldn't be too much to ask if I could get out of my easy chair without a private pep talk (one, two, three...PUSH)
Oh, and Body, one more thing, please, I would like not have to worry when I laugh or sneeze in public. Body, you just don't work like you used to.
Oh Sheena, I feel your pain! :-) I remember that whole sleeping on the back thing. I used to worry that I would forget half way through the night and starve my baby of oxygen. After delivery, I remember going home and sleeping on my back and feeling so indulgent.
ReplyDeleteHaha love the private pep talk!
And for a little too much info, I sneezed and thought my water broke with Lily. After creating a large fuss involving my brother-in-law, sister, AND sister's father in law, I went to the doctor to be told, No. That was NOT your water breaking. Pregnancy is so very humbling.
Enjoy your last few weeks of being incapacitated! :-)