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I'm fat and my brain is playing games with me in my sleep!  

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Seriously! It's kind of funny. I know we were just all talking about weight gain, and like I said, I'm not really sweating it if I really have gained 20 lbs by now (probably like 16 or something, maybe up to 20, I don't know), but I'M FAT! I pretty much only bought dresses and skirts because I don't like maternity pants, and in this heat my thighs are chafing! Ugh! I've been putting powder on them to try to minimize it, but it's hard when we're out and about for a whole day. I need to get a small thing of powder to keep in my purse. That and my feet got bigger and my wedding band is tight. I just feel so icky! DH started rolling his eyes when I was tlaking about it because A, he thinks I look great pregnant and B, he's just relaly not worried about it and maybe trusts my body more than I do. Granted, I did have some ice cream last night - but it had been 95 degrees! And I DIDN'T eat the whole pint, which I could have! So I'm just going to try to continue to eat healthy and exercise and do what I have to do. I know my body is trying to put on more fat since it knows Sam nursed for 2.5 yrs...

BUt my dreams - I tell you, like stereotypical stress dreams. Like I am in school and I blew off one course and now I won't be able to graduate on time. Or I'm at school but the train broke down so I can't get to the class that I've been blowing off so I wo't graduate. Or I change majors and now have to take all these other classes but don't have time. That's the majority of them. Some of them are work related - like, I find out that we're not getting raises this year and I freak out on my publisher. Or that the sales force gets a glamorous trip but my group doesn't even though we work harder than anyone and I freak out on everyone. It is so ridiculous. The thing is, even though I can laugh about them when I wake up, they are so troubling while I am asleep! At least I've stopped reaming about Sam falling into a swimming pool and getting electrocuted or about him getting kidnapped or about us being spied on by the gov't and there being some kind of booby trap keeping me from Sam and having to try to figure out how to save him while he sleeps and stuff like that. I mean, I can totally analyze what those are about, but those were just awful.
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I'm sorry you are having all those stress dreams. I totally know how those feel! I haven't remembered my dreams much lately, which is weird, because I usually do. I guess I am just sleeping so soundly. (Literally I am out within minutes of my head hitting the pillow.)

I am dreading my MW appt because while they are "nice" there is always that sort of murmering about how much weight I have gained. I know what I need to eat and that I need to exercise, but its just hard lately! So now I am stressed about getting on the stupid scale tomorrow. And that's not good for my BP. Grr. I hate all this weight stress.
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I looked at myself in a full length mirror with a swimsuit on the other day. Geesh, I know I'm pg, but I'm not carrying a baby in my butt!

I've had some pretty tough dreams too. I have these cafeteria dreams...there are all these choices and I don't know what to pick, what I'm allowed to have, I can't remember my ID number to give the "cashier" and I'm never sure if my account has enough money to pay for my selections (which I never seem to make it to the cashier with). I've also had some really scary dreams.

I think dreams about something happening to your child just mean you are worried you can't take care of them or protect them well enough (and we all feel that way from time to time). Life is quite overwhelming...especially when you are working so hard are creating a new one.

Christa
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I wonder what is up with the but changes? I haven't gained any weight, well thats not totally true I lost 12 pounds in three weeks and have put it all back on again placing me at exactly my prepregnancy weight, however my but is getting jiggly as Dh pointed out yesterday. He thought it was cute.

I had a variation of the cafeteria dream. I was at this WONDERFUL doughnut shop in town and they had increased their selection. I didn't want anything for myself I was picking something out for the kiddos and Dh. My mom was their and when we walked to the other side my grandma was waiting for us. Now that was weird.
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I have some wacky dreams too, mostly just very complicated, going on and on and on and some sort of impending threat looming but never realized.

I have had far too many dreams that end up seeming a whole lot like watching Lord of the Rings in my sleep. Going on looooooooong journeys with various friends through where I grew up in rural Washington state - which was very rugged and mountainous and green like LOTR. And then ending up in High School because I never passed HS math (in my dream), with Mr. McKee our basketball/algebra teacher. All of the teachers there did double duty as sports coaches and teachers, in real life. Let's say academic standards weren't real high. Gah. And I'm explaining - but, but! I have a master's degree! I don't have to be here! And they're really very sorry, but I must take one more semester of algebra.

And then I run away and set off across the rugged, slippery mountains once more.

Maybe if I had a bowl of popcorn in my sleep, it would be much nicer. But then that would just add to the Polish Life Raft, and I would wake up not as relieved as I do now.
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