Don't let anyone fool you. Pregnancy is not all fun and games! "Oooh, the baby is moving! How cool!", "Oooh, let's name the baby cricket! How cute!"
Pregnancy comes with plenty of undesirable side effects.
For instance, the carpal tunnel. Oh yeah. I work in the field. I thought that carpal tunnel was not supposed to start until the end of pregnancy! In your face, sucker! Let's get some serious wrist pain right around 17 weeks! Oh, HA! Now you have to sleep with cumbersome wrist splints! You look like a bear, with bear paws!
Also, I compare myself to every pregnant woman I see in the office. "She's 36 weeks and looks smaller than I do at 23 weeks!" It doesn't help that I started out this pregnancy at my heaviest weight ever. I've become well acquainted with stretch marks. My skin was already at maximum allowable stretching capacity before I even conceived!
Round ligament pain? How about round-everytime-I-move-pain? And why can't I walk up a hill without feeling like I'm going to die? I'm not running a marathon! I'm ambling up a subtle incline!
Really, ankle swelling already?
And why does the part of my body that used to be off limits to everyone, including my husband, now become public property? Why is it okay for everyone in the world to touch me? I didn't ask for you to invade my personal space and rub my over-taut, stretch-marked, belly. No, you can't feel the baby move! No, I don't know what the sex is! And why is it okay for you to tell me you're upset that I'm not finding out the sex? Why do you care? I barely know you!
Also, why do you get to make jokes about my weight now? And why do you think it's cool to tell me I'm waddling? Oh, I didn't know it was a good thing that my face is getting fat! Thanks for informing me!
The best part about pregnancy though, is how much I get to complain.
Oh. Yeah. And the baby.
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