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December 12, 2002
5 Weeks 3 Days
I think the biggest development of this pregnancy to date is the incredibly vivid dreams I have been having every single night. The images are very realistic, the emotions are realistic, the actions and events, well, perhaps not so realistic? :-) All I know is that they are so strong, it is really blowing my mind. I woke up the other morning and mumbled (apparently, according to my dear husband) that the kittens need rescuing down the hall. As if that isn’t something that we should definitely be doing! Ah, yes, and I have months and months left in this pregnancy yet to mumble away strange and absurd comments or instructions.
Oh, another thing is that I have been HOT at night. Whereas previously, I have been the one to quickly spoon my husband because he is the warmer one and I am either freezing or absolutely frozen, now, I spoon him because he is cool, and I want to use him to cool down. This doesn’t last long however, because I am apparently so hot that it is physically uncomfortable for him to have me touching him for any amount of time. This, I find, is absolutely hilarious, much to his dismay. I think I have figured the phenomenon out however. I have always claimed that he has a nuclear reactor core, he’s one of the men who is completely comfortable wearing shirtsleeves and possibly shorts when it is snowing out. He frequently shovels the driveway in just some cut-off sweats and an old t-shirt. Crazy man. Now is the key, though. I think that I too have a nuclear core reactor... in the Little One! Truly, it is the only explanation for the heat I have been generating. It is handy however, as I do live in a part of the country that experiences winter for a solid 5-6 months of the year :-)
Also, I forgot to mention this but last week, after my Dr.’s appointment, and the discussion, we decided that I should tell our neighbours. This was mostly because I wanted to see if they have a family Dr they could recommend, or perhaps they knew. This was a hard decision to make for us, as we were in a ‘race’ as we called it with them for winning baby roulette, and I knew that she would be very upset at the same time she was excited for me. She knows a number of women who are either pregnant, or trying like herself and unfortunately gets really caught up as to whether it will be ‘the month’ or not. So, I went in there knowing what may happen and it actually turned out fairly well. She was, as predicted, really excited, and asked me to tell her everything about my trip and the testing, which I did, because I know she would feel better knowing all those details. I am very pleased in telling her regardless, as I think that holding back the information would not have been in the best intentions for our friendship. I count her as a best friend of sorts, my only one here in Halifax, and so her friendship to me is quite important.
Lastly, symptoms… I have had very few so far. The dreaming, and high temperature for certain, but also, my breasts have been very very tender, almost from the day I ovulated. This is not a normal occurrence for me, and was something that made me suspect that I was indeed pregnant this cycle. They grew increasingly sensitive over last week, to the point where I was uncomfortable sleeping at night because of them. On Sunday night, I just chanted, I will buy something tomorrow, I will buy something tomorrow, it was that uncomfortable. Since then, it hasn’t increased too much, but there is no way that I could consider not wearing a bra (although with my cup size to begin with, that was not something I could do very comfortably at all) and not wearing something at night. I ended up finding two cotton/spandex camisoles that I could wear during the night or when I am just lounging around in the house for the day. They are sooooo comfy, it is just wonderful :-) I have had some very slight cramping sensations as well, but they are so faint that it does feel like I am imagining them sometimes… Time will tell!
**Talk to Me**
What were your first inklings you were pregnant?
What symptoms, besides morning sickness, made you very uncomfortable in early pregnancy?
Namaste, Laura and the Little One
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