Lots of strange things happen to a pregnant person. Let me correct that. Lots of strange things happen to a pregnant person's body. And some of them are just too much. Too much I tell you! I remember when my sister Eve was pregnant with her first kid and I asked her if she was reading any of those "What to Expect" books and laughing at her response of "NO! I don't want to know what gross things my body is doing!" It was funny.
So anyways. I was all over that book and my pregnancy app and babycenter.com, until I started having every single symptom they described for the upcoming week. Out of no where I started having restless sleeps! Perhaps because I read about it the day before and that I should expect it about now. Out of nowhere I started being clumsy! Perhaps because I read about it the day before! Ahhh! People! And those aren't even the gross things, so you can only imagine what it was like! I finally came to the conclusion that only Dan reads the weekly "maternal changes" updates and I make him swear not to tell me what they say. He is permitted to tell me something is normal if I voice the symptom first. But sometimes he looks at me with a twinkle in his eye and says something like "do you have underwire?" And I look at him like what the heck dude? Underwire? He read that I should be careful of bra's because of the underwire and he took it to be a symptom. And I'm like, no honey, those are the things that keep my giant heaving bosom from falling all over the place all the live long day. My Dan is just too adorable sometimes, I simply cannot keep it in. But for reals, he reads and I tell him how I feel and he lets me know if the book mentions that. It has kept my placebo pregnancy symptoms at bay, thank the good Lord! Don't think that I am a complete monster though - I do read about the fetal changes of our little Don Draper.
I think we should name the baby Don Draper Whitman Matthews. Of course, this assumes that it is a boy. And we find out this week! Wouldn't that be funny though? I mean seriously. Don Draper Whitman Matthews. Who among us has not thought of such things?
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