These days, I do most of my work from home. I am supremely lucky to be able to do this… and I don’t know how I could have managed otherwise. Props to all you ladies who have found it possible to sit in an office chair all day throughout your pregnancies!
These days, I am into the second trimester for real. There are some differences from the first trimester…
1) I have switched to maternity tops. My old tshirts, when we got back from vacation, were not covering my belly. I love my maternity tshirts. They are long and comfortable. Hooray!
2) Full-body exhaustion has abated, and been replaced by a tendency toward headaches. I understand this is normal. Bless my husband’s heart for driving me to every drugstore in town yesterday in search of a blood pressure machine, when I was sure I was dying of pre-eclampsia. You’re a saint, sweetie.
3) Um… so I know this isn’t kosher especially for a first child, but… I am feeling things. Way down in my belly. Usually when I am lying down, or when I am sitting slightly forward. Sometimes I feel a big FLOP! and sometimes I feel a little twitch-twitch-twitch. I don’t know if it’s Kidney Bean or not.
4) Instead of eating constantly to stop my stomach from feeling queasy, I am eating constantly because I am RAVENOUS.
I am practicing snack-mitigation, in light of this constant hunger (which has, in the last week, begun to regularly get me up in the middle of the night). I must ALWAYS have some fruit in the house, and I must ALWAYS have a container of washed and cut crudite. It’s my best chance of staying away from the Lofthouse cookies.
I usually start the days with my laptop at the dining table, where it usually sits. Some time around noon, though, I get the crampy-tireds and decide it’s time to recline. My little helper always follows me and settles down for a nap… have I said how very sweet Pudding has gotten? She’s all about snuggles and pajama parties, these days.
Wow! You look fabulous! First babies are so much fun and fascinating! Hope you’re reading lots of helpful books and sounds like you’re getting lots of rest.
You just might be feeling the sprout. Bubbles were my first clue the tiny one was in there.
Love the kitty photo!