FAVORITE FOODS...
- Sweet pickles
- Hamburgers
- Rice
- Quiznos veggie sandwich with turkey, hold the mushrooms and the olives
- Grilled cheese with turkey
- Regular Ruffles potato chips
- Birthday cake (for a short period of time)
- Tuna salad (which, I was only allowed to eat in moderation because doctors worry about mercury poisoning)
- Nectarines
- Lemon flavored Italian ice, lemon water, lemonade... (you get the drift)
- Chicken fingers from Sedgefield's pool-side cafe
- Ginger
- Fresh veggies
- Carbonated beverages
THINGS THAT DROVE ME CRAZY...
- Small bathrooms
- Ridiculously skinny pregnant women
- People who say, "oh, your body will never be the same again."
- Being hot
- Waiting 45 mins to an hour and a half to see the doctor
- My legs touching at the top
- When people would take food off my plate (This, and my long-list of cravings mentioned above, probably contributed to the leg-touching problem)
- Giant boobs, boob sweat... basically everything to do with my boobs (sorry MKB, TMI)
- Having to pee 100 times a day
- Constantly being asked to pee in a cup - especially when I could no longer see my crotch!
- Not knowing when our kiddo would arrive
INAPPROPRIATE THINGS PEOPLE SAID TO ME THAT YOU SHOULD NEVER SAY TO A PREGNANT WOMAN (OR ANY WOMAN FOR THAT MATTER)...
- "You look very healthy." (Code for saying, "you look fat!")
- "I can tell your hips are preparing for birth."
- "Oh wow!"
- "You are huge!"
- "You are much prettier when you are NOT pregnant."
- Any thing that comes remotely close to this conversation:
- Waitress: "Are you having a boy?"
- Me: "Yes"
- Waitress: "I can tell because women who are having boys look ugly; women who are having girls look pretty."
- Me: "Um... ok."
- "Just wait until your milk comes in."
- "At least you don't wear makeup to try and cover it up."
UNEXPECTED BODY CHANGES...
- The traveling belly button... it moved up and out!
- A thicker neck!
- Hands falling asleep while I was sleeping (or trying to sleep) and aching so badly they would wake me up.
- Swollen ankles with relatively normal feet - imagine under-the-skin ankle weights!
- Inability to rotate (like normal) from side to side.
- How difficult it became to bend down and pick things up!
- How bad my ribs hurt.
- When I had to go... I HAD TO GO!
THINGS I HAVE LOVED....
- Feeling him move
- Ultrasounds
- Playing bluegrass music and watching my belly jump all around
- Talking to Mike about the type of parents we want to be
- Imagining what MKB will look like
- The outpouring of love from friends and family
