littlejune
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Laying lazily on my couch with a fever yesterday, I thought about how I would have to return to work today- how I didn't want to run back and forth to the bathroom to pee or puke. How I am so tired I can't even find joy in a career I usually love. How, my face is breaking out and my boobs hurt and if I don't have a headache- well I have a stuffy nose. POOR ME.
Then it hit me, pregnancy isn't a sickness. It isn't an affliction. It's NOT as miserable as my attitude. Granted, hormones are real- and I don't think I've ever almost cried over being out of milk before now- but I'm really not miserable. I'm growing a life. I'm a mommy now.
I think it's very easy to consult Dr. Google over every ache, pain or spider vein *like that rhyme there ?* and it's easy to be extra lazy- especially because I have a fever and a cold which- come on, that's not fair to have with morning sickness! I think it's easy to write off my nasty mood or laziness or un washed hair because I feel less than great.
But I'm not going to. I think most all of us have experienced true pain and true misery. I had a crohn's flare last year that left me wasting away by 25 lbs, losing my hair and having seizures. That's misery. I've had my heart broken before I met my husband- that's also pretty miserable. Pregnancy is not. Pregnancy is fun, and exciting, and incredible.
I'm not saying the symptoms aren't real- I'm not saying the mood swings won't leave me feeling like a raging lunatic because someone glanced at me wrong- but I am saying I think we should start a thread that focuses on the positives.
My fever broke, and I get to go to work at a job where my co-workers are thrilled for me and my student's want to snuggle me even more now. I have a bigger chest * a perk for petite me, anyway* and my hair- though washed a lot less than normal now- seems thick and healthy. Mostly- I am growing a little 8 week old baby! Wow!
Your turn! Positives?
Then it hit me, pregnancy isn't a sickness. It isn't an affliction. It's NOT as miserable as my attitude. Granted, hormones are real- and I don't think I've ever almost cried over being out of milk before now- but I'm really not miserable. I'm growing a life. I'm a mommy now.
I think it's very easy to consult Dr. Google over every ache, pain or spider vein *like that rhyme there ?* and it's easy to be extra lazy- especially because I have a fever and a cold which- come on, that's not fair to have with morning sickness! I think it's easy to write off my nasty mood or laziness or un washed hair because I feel less than great.
But I'm not going to. I think most all of us have experienced true pain and true misery. I had a crohn's flare last year that left me wasting away by 25 lbs, losing my hair and having seizures. That's misery. I've had my heart broken before I met my husband- that's also pretty miserable. Pregnancy is not. Pregnancy is fun, and exciting, and incredible.
I'm not saying the symptoms aren't real- I'm not saying the mood swings won't leave me feeling like a raging lunatic because someone glanced at me wrong- but I am saying I think we should start a thread that focuses on the positives.
My fever broke, and I get to go to work at a job where my co-workers are thrilled for me and my student's want to snuggle me even more now. I have a bigger chest * a perk for petite me, anyway* and my hair- though washed a lot less than normal now- seems thick and healthy. Mostly- I am growing a little 8 week old baby! Wow!
Your turn! Positives?