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Wednesday, May 21, 2003
second trimester rules - 06:32 PM
the second trimester is the best. this is the type of pregnancy which, before i'd ever experienced pregnancy, i thought that i would enjoy .. & i am!
i've been feeling so healthy & so well. a few weeks ago, before my ultrasound & before my appointment with the obstetrician, i was feeling so well & so unpregnant that i actually made an appointment with my local doctor to make sure that everything was still okay. i hadn't really expected to be feeling rudegere move around much at that stage, which i wasn't, but i just felt so damn well that i wondered if he was still in there! silly, i know, but if my little niggling worry could be fixed as easily as that, then i decided that it was worth doing. the doctor simply used the thing that allows you to listen to the heart beat & i was much happier after that.
the aqua aerobics is going really well, & even though i didn't feel like going this morning because i was so tired from a really crappy sleep last night, i went anyway & still enjoyed it. i think it's doing me well. i plan to continue going three times a week, so by the time rudegere is ready to come out, i'll be raring to go.
my belly is now big enough (although i considered it big before) so that there's absolutely no mistaking that i'm pregnant. people who serve me in shops are now asking "when's it due?" without first checking as politely as possible that i actually am pregnant. people at aqua aerobics are asking the same thing. basically, it's become plainly obvious that i'm not just getting fat.
i've been feeling rudegere moving a lot these days, he's been especially active the last couple of days, mainly at night as usual, but even during the daytime a bit as well. i can see a lot of his movements just by looking at my belly too, which is really quite amusing. i think he's not growing as incredibly fast as he was over the past couple of months, because my weight gain has steadied out. i was watching it increase by a kilo every second day or so, but now it's steadied out. i seem to have settled on about sixty kilos for the moment. i imagine that i will continue to gain more weight, since rudegere still has some major growing to do, but perhaps it'll be a bit slower from now on.
the worst thing that i could complain about at this stage of my pregnancy is a bit of back pain. i think my posture is beginning to adjust to carrying a rather large load out the front. from what i've read, it's to be expected, so i'm not worried, just wishing that it would adjust a bit quicker. i'm being careful with my posture of course, & trying to sit & stand in a way that is good for me & for rudegere. the worst of it so far, is that by early evening i get a bit of muscle pain near one shoulder blade which i can't seem to find any position to relieve, thus the crappy sleep last night. hopefully, as with all things in pregnancy it seems, it'll pass soon enough. the aqua aerobics is surely good for strengthening up my muscles generally, not to mention loosening me up after feeling a bit stiff from a poor night's sleep.
just enoy the pregnacy, and keep the spirit up and good!
greetings from edwin
I'll be joining you at aqua aerobics as of Monday (hopefully). I would join you tomorrow, but, I have a dentist appointment
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you'll loosen up
and that can be not quite so nice too! LOL.. it seems like pregnancy waits until you get used to one thing, and then does a dramatic about face, and throws just the opposite at you.
just to keep you on your toes