Comments on: It’s only the beginning

By: wendy

wendy — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:43:20 +0000

Wonderful to be pregnant, but my first time was 41 years ago! I remember eating cracker biscuits and lemonade in the third month and someone gave us a puppy one day so we called it ‘Biscuit’. Good luck with your progress. It is truly a blessed time.
w.

By: andrea

andrea — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:49:31 +0000

I havent said congrats yet! Hope you get some relief in the 2nd tri. Btw, I made this dessert last night and it was fantastic. Thanks for the recipe!
a.

By: Molly

Molly — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:36:20 +0000

As a newly dubbed godmama, who held the foot of her best friend as she shoved that little one into the world–oh yes, I look forward to those days you have, and I’m even jealous–but for now, I’m reveling in the time before. Here’s me, thinking I can plan things, thinking I can get pregnant in the last year of my second go-round of graduate school. Bah!

By: peggy

peggy — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:52:09 +0000

Oh, jeez, Christina.
I feel your pain.

I so hated being pregnant–2 times around. And I so wanted to murder every one of those women who came up to me in the grocery store and put their hands–uninvited–on my belly and commented how ‘beautiful’ I looked. I would have liked nothing better than to vomit on demand. All over them. But that’s the irony, yeah? It never comes when you want it.

I remember how intense every single smell was–like,for nine straight months there wasn’t a single inch in the whole city of Seattle that didn’t smell like fast food. And, Seattle isn’t even really a fast food kind of town. Scented markers might have been the end, for me!

Eating graham crackers, blueberry poptarts and homemade dilly beans every two hours got me through it. But not in any top shape.

Just know that I’ll have some blueberry poptarts on hand in Creede. And that puke doesn’t freak me out.

By: Margaret

Margaret — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:05:07 +0000

November 22nd was the happiest day of my life … not just because it’s the day my beautiful son came into my life, but because it was the day I STOPPED BEING PREGNANT!!!

I hated it. Don’t even want to do it again. But I really want my son to have a sibling. How do you work that out?

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 01:57:20 +0000

Honestly…I felt bad (and still do) for all those women like you who suffer through the pregnancy process. It really makes no sense why some of us are almost nausea free and others have such tribulation! (And my mom was the same way…which makes me think it’s really genetic.) But oh! The tiredness…how I remember. I remember lying on the couch at work when no one was around. I remember leaving my students alone (it’s okay, they were adults!) to lay down in the next room. I craved being horizontal.

I hope I can say this without sounding like a total weirdo, but I pray for you and this baby every night (while I rock my boy to sleep), wrapping you in light and health.

By: tanya

tanya — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:41:49 +0000

I didn’t care for it much either. I had low blood pressure, anemia, and hypoglycemia all at the same time so I always felt like I was going to fall down. I am having an equally melancholy relationship with breastfeeding this time, too. I want to eat what I want without worrying how it affects someone else - like collard greens … ah, I do miss those.

By: LizP

LizP — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:16:11 +0000

(delurking)
Congratulations on kidlet #2! They usually happen when you’re not looking. I know mine did!

I hate-hate-hated being pregnant! I wasn’t planning on a second child and when I found out I was pregnant I cried a river! Not for the child but the heinous 9 months of being pregnant. I decided that people who say they love being pregnant are liars and are lying to make themselves feel better.

The blog-o-sphere seems full of moms having their second child so you are not alone. Last summer I felt the way you feel now. I could eat white food (toast, eggs, milkshakes). Hang in there!

By: Toni

Toni — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:40:16 +0000

I hated being pregnant the first two times. Especially the all day vomit or nausea. This was when I was 24 and 25. My last child was conceived when I was 38 and that pregnancy wasn’t as bad. After the morning sickness period, I felt pretty good. Being pregnant is just the beginning. After you haven’t experienced pregnancy for a decade, your mind plays tricks on you. You think you loved it because of the human beings that came of it.

By: marykate

marykate — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:58:45 +0000

De-lurking here to chime in with an emphatic “NO, you’re not the only one!”. I’m at 12 weeks, and this is my first, and it has been complete misery. I’m sick and tired of being ’sick and tired’! Is it true that somewhere in the 2nd trimester you wake up one day and feel better? When is that magic day?!Best wishes to you and your family.