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Look at my incredibly awesome, super sexy pregnant belly. Did you see it? Did you get a good look? Look again. Make sure you get a GOOD look at that bun in the oven. I am SO PROUD of my belly. I know lots of women cringe at the thought of pregnancy weight gain and an out-of-control growing abdomen, but I am nothing but PROUD and grateful. I've never felt better about myself, and it's about damned time I started looking pregnant! Last month, if I wore something tight, you could kind of tell I was pregnant from the side. Now, even with a T-shirt on, you can tell I'm pregnant from the front and either side. No more confused is-she-pregnant-or-just-fat stares from strangers. *sighs happily* Ahhhhh. Bliss. :)
Just to clarify, I only have pics from 3 months onwards because I didn't know I was pregnant until I was 7 weeks along and Taurus Man and I were still in shock with pregnancy belly pics nowhere on our minds. By 12 weeks we were in the game. I was trying to follow along with the common '9 months of pregnancy' theory, but it got too confusing for me after a while so I'm going along with the '40 weeks=10 months' theory now because it makes more sense to me and is easier to track. I intended to take this month's pic when my belly just popped up out of nowhere at 22 weeks, but I was distracted and constantly falling asleep or fainting and as you can see, I'm trying to wear a similar outfit in each picture so you can really see the growth and all of my tights and vests are at the bottom of one of the laundry baskets and I haven't been able to find them. This morning, however, I found a black cami in a pile of laundry I have yet to fold, and a few days ago I found a pair of black Charlotte Russe tights/leggings in the bag of stuff I was giving away and decided to keep it since my clothing options are so limited nowadays. Outfit for picture? Check! Belly for picture? Check! Camera at the ready? Errr.......Taurus Man had some issues with the camera on his fancy phone, but we worked it out and got the pictures. Check! I'm 25 weeks now, but none of these pics were taken at EXACTLY a specific amount of weeks or at the beginning of the month or anything like that, so I say go with the flow bitches. =D
Hmmm......I've told you about my Braxton Hicks and cravings. I'm not sure if I mentioned this before, but my average, normal, once-toned-some-years-ago legs are now tree trunks. I can't get away with the rubber band trick on my jeans anymore as none of my jeans can get past my knees, and boy is it a struggle to get it up to my knees! Tights/leggings were really comfortable for awhile, but now they're very tight and squeeze my legs until they hurt and start cramping. I have a couple pairs of really cheap ones that are super stretchy and can still work, and I've also taken the liberty of raiding Taurus Man's closet =D Men wear SUCH comfortable pants :)
My giant pornstar boobs still give me regular back pain. I've read that it's better to buy bras closer to your due date as they'll grow again, and I am in total agreement, especially with financial challenges all around me, but I think I might cave and just get one for now. The weight hanging off my chest is so painful and all my bras feel like torture devices so I haven't worn a bra in over a month, which can't be good for the girls anyway. Also, I get a lot of chest pain. I had some shooting pains in just my left breast, which my doc said was from all the extra blood being pumped and putting strain on my heart. I've started getting the pains in both breasts now. Before getting pregnant, I had a problem with stabbing, pulling, and shooting chest pains that would hurt so bad I couldn't breathe. My general doc said it was because of the extra strain being placed on my heart to pump my less than normal amount of blood through my whole body due to the anemia, especially how long I've had it and how bad it's been for so long. He said my body was over-working my heart and that was causing the pain. Aside from being cautious about my heart enlarging, it was cool though. I get the pains more regularly now, but I guess it's the blood pumping thing.
I've also noticed I'm super pale most of the time now. Pale as in I-look-like-a-better-vampire-than-Bella pale. Which makes my boldly colored road map veins pop out even more lol. The heartburn is practically gone, and I have no constipation. As I've told my best girl, (Capricorn Girl), I'm as regular as a Japanese train :) Other than that, I'm sleepy and exhausted and worn out a lot. For example, I took a shower (sitting down) and handwashed two pieces of clothes. I took my time and did not push myself, but by the time I stumbled back into the room, I was so exhausted I nearly collapsed. It took more than an hour for me to catch my breath and for my heart to stop threatening to jump out of my chest at warp speed. Seriously? It was ONE shower. Sitting on the floor. I didn't even shave. Jeez.
I do hip opening exercises, squats, pelvic rolls, hip circles, stretches, and listen to hypnobirth tracks to meditate and sleep as often as I can, once I'm up and able. Remember when I talked about perineum massage? Heh heh heh. Turns out, it's not what I thought it was. I was under the impression that all you had to do was rub the perineum itself. From the diagrams of female anatomy I've seen , it didn't seem like too big of a deal. So I rubbed that little spot and asked myself why more people don't do it if it's that simple. I also wondered how rubbing and massaging one little spot was going to help with the tearing thing. That's why we have google folks. And youtube demonstrations. I'm supposed to do WHAT to my WHAT? Uh huh. That's right. Stick BOTH thumbs in your hoo-hah, and massage the walls of your vag in a circular motion as you rotate your thumbs down and out. Do this for about five minutes a day. Eh? Come again? Press play on the youtube demonstration. WHAT THE WHAT???? *stare in horror* You guys, it might not seem like such a big deal, but I'm kind of a small person. My height is average bordering on almost kind of tall, but my body itself isn't too big. Especially not my vag. I've only been having sex for two and a half years. There hasn't been a lot of things going on down there to stretch it out. I have a petite body and a petite hoo-hah. So, again, I'm supposed to do WHAT to my WHAT???? But, I'm nothing if not a trier. So I tried it three times so far. AND I'm a wuss. Taurus Man sprained his other foot and thumb while playing football, so once his thumb has healed I'll have him try his hand (no pun intended) at it and see how it goes. For now, WHAT THE WHAT????????
No other weird pregnancy things. Except I want sex so bad. But I'm so exhausted, even if I had to just lie there I couldn't. So I've finally put aside my hardcore feminist views and accepted porn and am currently hunting for something that appeals to me so that I may *ahem* pleasure myself. Until then, I want sex. So bad. I'm just literally too tired. Sigh.
But still, HAVE YOU SEEN MY BELLY? Look at that sexy bump. Just LOOK at it! =D
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