status update : week 11
With one more week to go before the first trimester ends, I’m starting to really feel pregnant. Earlier this week I told my husband that the pregnancy is beginning to feel “real”. Maybe I came to the conclusion that whatever news I was going to hear at the doctor’s office on Wednesday, I was going to have some direction. A good, strong heartbeat meant good news and we would still be pregnant. No heartbeat or a weak heartbeat would be a warning sign, and possibly a miscarriage. Either way, I felt confident that things would be moving forward in one direction or another.
Some symptoms going on this week:
I have started having slight round ligament pain when I sneeze (which is quite often) or cough.
My breasts are still tender, sometimes terribly so early in the morning when I get up.
I have to get up to pee about every five hours at night, so usually just once at night. Also, when I wake up to pee, I’m fully awake, and it takes me a while to get back to sleep, something I am not accustomed to. In my past life I was known as a well-accomplished heavy sleeper, training for the Olympic trials for heavy sleeping. I am sure my body is now gearing me up for sleepless nights, where I am required to be cognizant of what I am doing at 3:23 am.
I’ll eat almost any food, as long as I don’t have to prepare it. It tastes much better that way.