Taking the P!ss
It's difficult to say whether any of the symptoms I feel as though I'm experiencing are real or just in my head. It's still such early days; maybe I'm being hyper-aware, or maybe I'm kind of imagining it.
One of the problems is that my main symptom feels so much like period pain that I’m convinced each time I go and pee (and I’m peeing a lot: more on that shortly – yay for you) that I’ll have come on. I don’t know how I’d react to that – Spud wasn’t part of our plan for at least another year or so, but now that they’ve insinuated themselves into the plan, I’d be a bit gutted, I think, if the plan changed…
Anyhoo, let’s stop being so morbid and get on to peeing. Yep. I drink a lot of water anyway, so I pee like a racehorse at the best of times – although T jokes that if I was a racehorse I’d have been put out of my misery long ago – so it’s difficult to tell whether I’m going any more than normal. I think I am, but this is what I mean about whether the symptoms are ‘really’ real; am I just noticing that I’m peeing more, whereas previously I don’t think I ever kept notes.
I’ve been really bloated for a couple of days now too - I’ve gone up an inch and a half in my waistline! It’s all bloat, not baby, BUT… right down at the bottom of my abdomen, right about where there’s a little Spud, it’s not bloat. My lower abdomen is super hard, not squishy at all, and that’s actually making me feel great.
This afternoon T set up an online calendar for the two of us so we can keep tabs on each other… I mean, so we can both track things like doctors appointments. It’s also because he wants me to put the families birthdays in there since I’m the only one who ever remembers them, but it’s mostly the baby thing, I’m sure.
Were you certain from the start that your symptoms were baby, and not just in your head?
Anyhoo, let’s stop being so morbid and get on to peeing. Yep. I drink a lot of water anyway, so I pee like a racehorse at the best of times – although T jokes that if I was a racehorse I’d have been put out of my misery long ago – so it’s difficult to tell whether I’m going any more than normal. I think I am, but this is what I mean about whether the symptoms are ‘really’ real; am I just noticing that I’m peeing more, whereas previously I don’t think I ever kept notes.
I’ve been really bloated for a couple of days now too - I’ve gone up an inch and a half in my waistline! It’s all bloat, not baby, BUT… right down at the bottom of my abdomen, right about where there’s a little Spud, it’s not bloat. My lower abdomen is super hard, not squishy at all, and that’s actually making me feel great.
This afternoon T set up an online calendar for the two of us so we can keep tabs on each other… I mean, so we can both track things like doctors appointments. It’s also because he wants me to put the families birthdays in there since I’m the only one who ever remembers them, but it’s mostly the baby thing, I’m sure.
Were you certain from the start that your symptoms were baby, and not just in your head?
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