Cutting back on smelly bacteria tea
Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Yeehaw. Almost as dark as the control line! I'm having problems posting about anything other than my thoughts surrounding this pregnancy, so please forgive me for being obsessive. I'm sure the novelty will wear off when I have an enormous bump and don't feel so spry and giddy anymore. Then again, my page is named "Making a Person".....so I guess is perfectly acceptable for me to go crazy and post only about this subject for a while.

We're going to announce the news to our pals @ church tonight. DH is not going to go through with his original plan of announcing the pregnancy, and I am relieved. He did get to use the joke/trick to tell one of our friends yesterday, so I think it helped him get it out of his system. That particular friend totally "gets" DH's sense of humor, so it went off well and there was no offense.....which I'm afraid would not be the case if he were to joke about it to the whole church.

Let's talk symptoms.....so far, I feel super bloated and hate wearing my jeans. I bought a pair of loose stretchy jogging pants from Wal-Mart that I am going to wear every day of my life. My poor boobies are REALLY sore and I just realized today that the days of them being perky and round are coming to an end. It sounds crazy, but I feel like I'm going to be needing some bigger non-underwire bras VERY soon. I still have a little bit of normal mild crampiness every now and then, but it's pretty dull and I haven't noticed it as much lately. I have to pee all the time, but this probably has more to do with the fact that I'm drinking a huge horse trough of water every day. No nausea yet and no real aversions to certain foods. Although, I was eating a banana yesterday and the smell of the peel was bothering me to the point where I had to take it out of the peel and try not to breathe through my nose while I was biting into it.

I took 2 sips of Kombucha and that made me pretty green, but then again it was from a pretty strong 2-week batch, so that may be why. I tend to like the 7-10 day brew better. I'm going to really limit my Kombucha intake while pregnant because of its detoxification properties. From what I've read, it's okay to continue drinking it if you were used to drinking it before becoming pregnant, but I haven't been drinking it for that long, so 2-4 oz every couple of days should probably be my limit, if I drink any at all.

DH is thinking about trying to find another job. He is really not the flaky kind of person who hops from job to job (like I am! :) but the fact that he has to work 6 days a week at a place that is an hour drive from our house is getting him down. He feels like he doesn't have time for anything and the thought of being a daddy and having to be gone all the time just makes him sad. His dream is to go into business for himself. One of his good friends is planning on opening up an espresso cafe not far from where we live and I think DH really wants to get in on that. It would be awesome if he could help run a business like that instead of "working for the man".

Labels: dh, health, pregnancy, pregnancy whining

posted by Unkempt Mommy @ 8:17 AM,

4 Comments:

At Wed Aug 16, 09:57:00 AM CDT, Danielle said...: Totally Sore boobs!!! and just wait till you go to dry them off after a shower or bath...my nipples stung. It was weird. Maybe it won't happen to you....maybe I shouldn't share that it happened to me. :o)

I'd say the banana peel thing was a definite aversion.

I so can relate to the jeans thing. I got to the point where I hated them because I felt restricted. I'm definitely interested in what your going through so keep sharing.
At Wed Aug 16, 10:12:00 AM CDT, Jae said...: Oh yes, it's definite that you're pregnant. Crazy that you keep peeing on those sticks, girl! LOL! Save the $$ and wait until Friday. ;)
At Wed Aug 16, 11:28:00 AM CDT, Danielle said...: I forgot to mention that I think it is so neat that your cousin and you are pregnant at the same time. How fun! Are you two close enough to share things with eachother? Does she live near you? Maybe you could totally convert her to cloth diapers.

My sister-in-law has five kids and they quit having kids before I started, but she is so into cloth diapering now and wishes she had a little bum to put them on! When she had babies, she thought cloth was dirty and gross, but now that she sees how great it is in real live, she has totally changed her mind and actually has a friend who cloth diapers from her church.
At Wed Aug 16, 02:01:00 PM CDT, Zandra said...: Hi. I saw your comment on Heidi's blog and came to check you out. Hi, I'm Zandra. Congrats on the pregnancy! I just had my second (well, not just as she is already 4 months old!) and I had her at home with a midwife, so I always get excited when I hear of someone else using a midwife!