In the past week I feel like I've suddenly entered into the really pregnant stage. I have officially become "the pregnant lady". Holy crap. Here's a few things that tipped me off:
- I find I can no longer carry regular things, like a bag of dog food, a box of books, or even a laundry basket (well, at least not piled excessively high like they usually are around here). At Costco I have to unload things one at a time into my car, instead of hoisting the nicely packed box, which feels extremely inefficient.
- Today, after arriving a few minutes late to yoga, I found the door to the studio locked. I was pretty sure they were in there doing yoga, and I couldn't get in. Instead of accepting the situation and acknowledging it was not in fact the traumatic event that it seemed to be, I sobbed all the way home, totally skipping my dog food errand.
- Sleep is becoming elusive. I am getting up at least 3 times a night and then just give up around the crack of dawn because my hips hurt too much to be lying down any longer (perhaps I can blame yoga/crying incident on lack of sleep?).
- Walking around the block after dinner with the dog is now a marathon I can barely finish. Lame!
- Yesterday at the school I volunteer at I was helping with birthday treats, which was, ironically, scooping ice cream into dixie cups. I helped myself to two generous servings, one with sprinkles and one without. It wasn't even the good kind, but I couldn't help myself!
- The other day at Ikea I fleetingly considered parking in the families only and/or disabled parking area (the new parking lot feels like it is miles away) and realized after the fact that it would have been totally acceptable for me to do so. (I didn't, however, as I needed the exercise, but if I go again and actually buy stuff I probably will.)
- I realize that throughout the day I am totally doing the annoying pregnant lady belly rub that the infertiles tend to joke/kvetch about. I swore I wouldn't do it and now I can't help it, those kicks and punches really do hurt nowadays...
Posted by KimK on March 02, 2006 at 05:18 PM PST #