Count me in.
I have no morning sickness at all and I'm a bundle of energy other than a few days where I just slept a lot, but didn't have that bone-hurting exhaustion that is normal for m in the first trimester. The cofeee and cigarette thing is the absolute worst! It's my most reliable pregnancy symptom and I usually can't stand either long before a pregnancy test can detect anything. I remember how miserable I was trying to gag down that coffee when I didn't want exy to figure out I was pregnant with ds quite yet because not drinking it would have been so obvious to him or anyone else who knew me. This kid couldn't care less! The day I tested positive I felt kind of sad turning down a cup of coffee because it smelled so yummy and thinking about maybe picking up something special for as soon as
got here. Then I walked past a smoker right outside the door of the drugstore to get the taste and lo and behold, his cigarette smelled really nice! I'm a former heavy smoker, so I can be that way, but NEVER when I'm pregnant!
In comparison, with Phoenix all I could do at this point was sleep and literally crawl up a flight of stairs to the bathroom and puke. I lost 20 lbs by the 12th week and it took the rest of my pregnancy to gain it back. I weighed as much the day before she was born as I did the day she was conceived.
It was a bit better for my surviving kids, but not much. This pregnancy is completely different! My breasts are painful, but it's more like "phantom let-down" sort of like phantom pains that amputees feel in limbs that aren't really there. They're also enormous, so I had to get all new shirts (thank goodness for the styles! I actually have trendy, cute tops that I got in the Junior department, size extra large, and they may well last me through the whole pregnancy) and my tummy is a bit bloated so I'm more comfortable in yoga pants and my cute new maternity jeans, but I could probably squeeze into my normal jeans if I had to since they're pretty low rise. I'm also sweating more than normal and my sweat smells more than normal. It's not an unpleasant smell to me, but I worry about what other people might think. I'm not going to start using aluminum antiperspirant because if you knew my family, you'd understand why I think that's why so many of us get alzheimer's and it's not really genetic at all. I may have to do something about the small prety soon, though, even if it's just washing my pits every single time I pee.
And that's another thing: peeing! It was unbelievable how much I had to pee long before my pee could make any test turn positive. I remember one time I was out and about with my Mom and I don't know what she thought I was doing in the public bathrooms every time she turned around, but she must have suspected some sort of drug because one time after a discrete pit stop she started screaming at me for "Not caring about anything except your own pleasure!"
Huh? Since when is peeing fun?
My bladder never quite recovered from my three liveborn pregnancies. I don't have to wear pads any more, but I do normally pee at least every hour (very bad pain if I don't) and more if I'm hydrated enough to be healthy. I do have to limit my activities because of this. When I was deciding whether or not to go through with TTC again, I kind of had to accept the fact that one more might just put me in Depends, at least during the pregnancy, and work through my disgust and embarassmnt at the prospect until I was okay with it and realized that a baby was FAR more important than any of my silly old toilet training traumas.
I don't notice any increase in frequency at all. Since my body is craving water now that I'm pregnant, if anything, I'm peeing less.
I have literally never gotten a bfn with this pregnancy (I started tsting at 10dpo with a digital) but I've gone through just as many pee sticks as I have for all my other TTC cycles because it's just so reassuring to me to see that second line, which is now darker than the control line. Unfortunately, if I think about it TOO much, I know it's not normal for them to be QUITE so positive and I worry about multiples, something I do NOT want as a single mama planning her first UC!
