The Stuff "THEY" Don't Tell You...Part 1

So I know that there are countless books out there that talk about the joyous 10 months of pregnancy, and some of them are honest to a point, some of them sugar coat things, some of them are personal memoirs of the pregnancy experience as told by a famous person who has everything and everyone at their beck and call including a makeup artist, a trainer, a personal chef...stop me if this sounds like your experience with pregnancy...but for the most part - after reading many of these and the countless number of blogs, posts, articles, etc - I still feel like there are things that people are not being fully honest with you about- or simply leaving out all together...like maybe if we don't talk about them - they just won't happen or they might ignore them...well let me tell you - these things are pretty stinkin hard to ignore!

In fact - I feel like there are a lot of things that "THEY" don't tell you about this entire pregnancy experience so I will use my blog - as a bit of a soap box - to share with you all (who ever it is that reads my daily ranting and raving) about some of the joys and well not so joys of these 10 special months known as pregnancy!

I figure I will share some of these thoughts over the next five months as I continue to learn and experience different milestones of my pregnancy...

but here is my "STUFF THEY DON'T TELL YOU" for today...

NORMAL?

You body will not feel the same for 10 months! No joke! And I can't really say that it is a good thing, a bad thing or somewhere in between - but what I do know is that I can totally feel difference.

I am not really sure how people simply don't know they are pregnant for the first several months - in fact I met a woman yesterday that explained to me that she didn't know she was pregnant until she was more than seven months along...ARE YOU KIDDING ME! The bulging mid section, the gas, the uncomfortable feeling, the inability to go more than 45 minutes without going to the bathroom, or I don't know - when you just didn't get your period for SEVEN WHOLE MONTHS...wasn't a clue that maybe something was up - and because you know me, and you know that I rarely bite my tongue - I asked her how she could possibly not know - and she told me that she was "Athletic" - oh sure...wait what?

But I am telling you that since the day (and even before it was confirmed) that I found out I was pregnant - I have felt my body changing. From aching (and I mean straight painful) boobs, exhaustion and constipation, to bloating, to an ever growing waistline to the gas, constant need to use the bathroom, food aversions, cravings, my nipples taking over my boobs, oh wait my bras don't fit, the climbing number on the scale,  shortness of breath, light headedness (is this a word?), growing out of your clothes, itchy skin, backney and breakouts like I am 12 again, irritability, crying at the drop of a hat, back pain, weird skin conditions, my complete inability to hide my feelings (ok maybe this one is not due to pregnancy), my need to sleep, stop, rest or lay down after any major amount (define major) of activity, my lack of sex drive - seriously don't touch me - to my total increased sex drive - to what I hear will be on the decline again, to my need to "nest", to my hair feeling totally different, to hair on parts of my body growing at an experiential rate, to my belly button about ready to pop out, to my feet growing (some shoes just don't fit anymore) just to name a few!

my body is on a flippin roller coaster - I have not felt "normal" (not good, bad or in between) since October!

Stay tuned as I will include these in my daily posts and such...and if you have anything that you would like to add to my observations - being that I am only one pregnant person amongst many - I welcome your insight, thoughts, experiences, and well even just something funny that will make me laugh and say...yes yes - I can relate!

email me at emkillion@gmail.com if you have anything you would like to share!