(wow that's just over 4 months to go)!!
At this stage my profile is becoming more like a capital B (but with the top part smaller than the bottom bump). Bust hasn’t increased much, and this was predictable as I never experienced a huge change in bust size when I took contraceptive hormones in past nor in my monthly cycles (there have been other changes in this area but don’t want to attract porn spam by telling you about them). I have lost all trace of a waist but at least have lost the cylinder “trunky” in-between look that was there before Christmas - am getting a proper sized belly! I am now most definitely pregnant if seen from side-on! Can easily see inside my belly button without craning neck, but doing up shoes is getting hard. Skin seems to be looking well, as I am getting frequent comments on it. Feeling healthy and happy – hard to get too upset about anything much when I have a snugly baby on the way in just over 4 months!!*
My walking pace has slowed – apparently due the extra vital supplies that are diverted to my uterus and surrounds. Feel really unfit when going up stairs - get quite breathless! Still getting tired most evenings quite early, and usually have to get up in the night to go to the toilet due to reduced bladder capacity etc.
I swim half as far as I used to at the pool, or I get really worn out (but thankfully, swimming doesn’t guarantee a day of nausea the next day like it did in the first trimester). Swimming with a bulge sticking out front makes me feel like I am swimming with a blunt keel, or dragging a ball and chain, but I am getting used to it. Backstroke is becoming a more attractive stroke, and breaststroke feels like I am getting nowhere. Getting out of the pool must be a spectacle: used to haul self out with a singular, swift motion using arms to hoist self out of pool, then bring leg up to step up onto the side of the pool. Now struggle to lift myself up high enough and need to quickly swivel to get bum on side of pool before my arms give out on me. Might just exit via the stairs (like normal people) from now on to maintain some dignity. Still going to the gym nearly once a week, but have stopped running, dropped my weights and repetitions, and avoid exercises that require my belly being squashed against anything. Going for walks is good also, especially if end point is breakfast at a café.
Bub is kicking away, and the position of the kicks changes regularly. Down, up, front, towards my back. I can see my belly move if I’m looking down when it kicks towards the front. Come to think of it, it may be elbowing as well. I am beginning to think of myself as a “we” rather than an “I”, but don’t feel and identity crisis coming on just yet. I like to think that sometimes the kicks are in time to music - I tapped my tummy to the rhythm last night, and got a few regular kicks in response and in time!! Genius musician in the making (or at least percussionist), in addition to soccer star, and swimmer. Fish Oil supplements that I am ingesting are with luck reducing our (mine and bub’s) reactions to allergens along with hopefully increasing bub’s intelligence. Well, you can always hope.
* won’t confirm or deny whether a main attraction to the idea of having a baby is so that I can get more cuddles…
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Honey you are going to have your very own portable hugging koala for at least the first 3 years (until they get to heavy to lug around!) :) this is a lovely image. Can't wait for a cooing aunty-like cuddle myself! Snuggly bub! Snuggly bub!
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