When you drop something on the floor at work and a coworker walks by and picks it up before you can convince yourself to get it (multiple times throughout the day...)
When you sit on the floor to go through a bag, and wait for your DH to get out of the bathroom and help you because you are too big and exhausted to crawl to a table and pull yourself up. I played a few games on my phone while I was down there.
speaking of T-rex arms...the sinks in the bathroom at my office are starting to seem excessively far away from me - they are so far from the edge of the counter that i can't quite reach the water stream when my bump runs into the ledge...awkward. just awkward. do i turn to each side to rinse one hand at a time, or just resort to hand sanitizer? #-o
Met: September 2005Married: October 2008 DS: 09/2014
When you sit on the couch contemplating how badly you really have to go to the bathroom and if it's worth it because getting off the couch is a rocking, back-swinging ordeal.
When you start to wish every chair and sofa came with an ejector seat.
When you drop things on the floor and suddenly realize what a T-rex must feel like.
When you want to punch people in the face for asking how you are feeling. (Because seriously - who in their right minds doesn't want people to care about them?)
When the thought of the olympic-level movements that involve putting pants on pisses you off.
...you take 3 trips to the office bathroom in 10 minutes...and then getting called out for said trips.
...you dream about being able to lay on your stomach.
...you legitimately miss being able to flop onto your bed, run up a set of stairs with ease, the feeling of being "agile", and the ability to do things like the below gif...
...you plan your errands around public restrooms. Meaning, no more than 1 stop in a row at a place without a clean (enough) restroom.
or
...when the best thing to happen to you lately was your discovery that Target has a restroom in its pharmacy area, so you don't have to go all the way to the front of the store to pee during your shopping trip.
Dec '13: First FET 12/20 BFP!! 12/31 Beta #1: 404 Beta #2: 1,027
When you break not one, but two pairs of shoes within an hours time!! The sole ripped completely off the rest of the shoe on eachajr. Time to get new shoes after this baby is here. My feet are so swollen only flip flops and some sandals will work.
Off BC, NTNP since
June 2011
Started
acupuncture/herbs July 2012
First BFP 9-8-2012,EDD
5-15-2013, heartbeat of 175 at 8w2d, mmc discovered on 10-26-12 (11w6d) Cytotec
on 10/26/12
8/23/13 DX with
non-IR PCOS
Second BFP 9.12.13,
EDD 5.29.14, heartbeat of 114 at 6w1d, mmc discovered on 10-18-13, D&C on
10/23/13 (baby girl/Trisomy 10)
Third BFP (surprise at
Beta draw after d&c) on 1/10/14 (15dpo), EDD 9.20.14 Please be ourRAINBOW!
People don't even contemplate whether they are willing to give up their seat for you on the subway, they just jump up when you waddle on because you look so huge and miserable.
You burst into tears after spending 20 minutes walking the dog so that she'll do her business and then she doesn't do her business yet you've had at least one BH contraction while on the walk.
S14 August Siggy - Drink Porn - Wine and a hottie (Matthew Goode)!
You walk around Target for 10 minutes without realizing the entire lower portion of your shirt is soaked because you didn't realize your belly was in their freakishly low sink and you didn't realize it was wet because despite the 100+ heat you're required to wear layers to cover your belly plus the spandex band of your pants, so you are completely cut off from the elements.
When you walk down the street to check the mail (3 houses down) and consider waiting at the mailbox until your hubby can pick you up since you know he's already on the way home and damn it, there is no way you can waddle your way back to the house.
...when customs/passport control says "you look different" than your passport picture. Sorry my flight made me exhausted and puffy. I was all dolled up and super excited to get my first passport when I took that picture, now I'm tired and just want to get home. Thanks for that ego boost.
and ditto to all the t-rex arms, extreme effort to get out of the seated or laying down positions, and bladder problems.
When people lose any amount of sense they have and think it is okay to talk about how much weight you have gained. Then to make you feel better they give unsolicited advice. Let's see you start off the conversation by pissing me off and then you want to give me advice, um thanks but no!
When your feet are so swollen, they no longer feel anything even the pile of dog poop you stepped in. The only clue is the awful smell rolling off of you.
Going to the grocery store turns into the most exercise you've had all week because you keep forgetting the 5 things you went for and have to keep trekking from one end of the store to the other. Plus now you're hungry from said trips across the store so you buy more, all the while you've had a few contractions and someone is beating on your bladder. Good times.
When you drop something and your whole body just slouches with disappointment.
When switching sides in bed is a 3-4 minute ordeal requiring a 7 point turn.
When you are trying to get something off the bottom shelf of the above cabinets but you have to turn to the side a little and reach with all your might (this might just be a 5'3" pregnant person's problem).
When the grocery store cashier doesn't even ask but gets a courtesy clerk to help you to your car.
You used to car about the dog not getting people food that drops on the floor but now she's living it up b/c there's no way I'm picking it up.
When you think "I can go one more day without shaving or washing my hair" because you're too exhausted to stay in the shower one more minute.
When you couldn't care less about the electric bill... the a/c will run all freaking day.
When you actually wake up in the middle of the night not only to pee a bazillion times but because you're hungry. I actually had hunger wake me up and couldn't go back to sleep until I ate... at 3am.
When you go to a restaurant and analyze the booths to see if the table will move a little to make room for the belly and if it is stationary, you have to opt for a non-booth table (this is just the last week or two).
3.5 weeks until delivery! We can do this!!!
When we went out for our anniversary, the hostess brought us to a table that had a booth seat on one side and a chair on the other. DH doesn't really like booths, so I had to ask the hostess if the table moved b/c I couldn't fit between the booth and the table. She laughed, I didn't.
{Me:27, Dx:PCOS, LPD, & rob(14;15)}
{DH:31 all clear, "super sperm"}
Ecstatically married July 30, 2011--TTC since Jan 2013:::Baby #1 due 9/11, Conceived on cycle #5 of Femara + Hcg + IUI
- When you start getting weekly pedicures just for the foot rub.
- When you realize you have actually been having an intense emotional affair with the man at the nail place (unbeknownst to him) because the of care he pays to your swollen feet, even though he doesn't speak the same language as you and you have never actually communicated.
- When your husband is fine with your emotional infidelity, so long as he doesn't have to touch those kankles.
When you work in a professional atmosphere and everyone has just accepted yoga pants (or as DH calls them 'stretchy pants') as the office norm for you, unless you have a client, then you can expect to be presentable for only those hours with stretchy pants on hand for meetings closure.
@MrsLaLaBug, also when you stand like a man. had dh take my weekly update this week and was appalled when i saw them! i looked like i was a large football player ready to take my stance but with bad posture. no bueno
- When you start getting weekly pedicures just for the foot rub.
- When you realize you have actually been having an intense emotional affair with the man at the nail place (unbeknownst to him) because the of care he pays to your swollen feet, even though he doesn't speak the same language as you and you have never actually communicated.
- When your husband is fine with your emotional infidelity, so long as he doesn't have to touch those kankles.
SO glad to hear I'm not the only one spending excessive amounts of money on this. I've gotten 3. And I've probably had 3 total before this in my entire life. I'm going Saturday and telling them to skip the polish...just let me sit in the massage chair longer.
S14 August Siggy Challenge.....ALL OF THE ALCOHOLS
when you feel no shame taking the elevator instead of the stairs. Even if it's just up one or two floors.
Or on the flip side of the coin - when you feel like you should receive a medal because you do still take the steps, up two flights, instead of the elevator even though half of your non-pregnant co-workers do not.
-- when you make your hubby help you put on your pants every time.
-- when your 4 year old has to help Mama off the couch.
-- when you get up every two hours during the night to pee.
-- when getting up or even every time you turn in bed is an Olympic event.
-- when Baby Girl is sitting in such a way on your sciatica nerve, that it makes it hurt so bad you can't walk to the bathroom for the hundredth time today.
-- when you waddle so much, you look and feel like a duck.
When you spend 15 minutes trying to figure out if you really want to put on your underwear. Let's face it's already a circus act to do and there's no comfortable way to do it, oh AAAANNNDDD you have to do the same circus act to put your pants on. Then I decide it's best since I tend to pee on myself every now and then for the last two months.
When you are at a car show and can no longer lean in through the window to hear the stereo system because your belly keeps running into the side of the car.
ETA: And I was not about to try and climb up into an Escalade.
^^^ September Signature: TV series I plan on binge watching with my newborn I do what I want. ^^^
Gage Douglas 09.04.2014...my sunshine after the rain.
-When your husband moves to the guest bedroom every night because you and baby and your fort of pillows have kicked him out of any kind of sleeping space.
Re: You Know You're Super Pregnant When...
BFP #3 on 7/23/16 EDD 3/30/16
i feel like i have T-rex arms.
Met: September 2005 Married: October 2008 DS: 09/2014
BFP#1 4/17/2013 EDD 12/25/2013, MC 5/17/2013 8 weeks 3 days D&C 5/18/2013
BFP#2 1/20/2014 EDD 9/28/2014, Baby Evie born on 9/23/2014 at 8:50pm. 6 lbs 15 oz!
... no less than five random strangers each day ask when your due date. Not for another 8 weeks, but thanks for asking.
#-o
Met: September 2005 Married: October 2008 DS: 09/2014
When you sit on the couch contemplating how badly you really have to go to the bathroom and if it's worth it because getting off the couch is a rocking, back-swinging ordeal.
When you start to wish every chair and sofa came with an ejector seat.
When you drop things on the floor and suddenly realize what a T-rex must feel like.
When you want to punch people in the face for asking how you are feeling. (Because seriously - who in their right minds doesn't want people to care about them?)
When the thought of the olympic-level movements that involve putting pants on pisses you off.
#spreadeaglebaby
12/31 Beta #1: 404 Beta #2: 1,027
I assumed that happened to me because I looked like I would stab them... I've been feeling stabby lately.
Off BC, NTNP since June 2011
Started acupuncture/herbs July 2012
First BFP 9-8-2012,EDD 5-15-2013, heartbeat of 175 at 8w2d, mmc discovered on 10-26-12 (11w6d) Cytotec on 10/26/12
8/23/13 DX with non-IR PCOS
Second BFP 9.12.13, EDD 5.29.14, heartbeat of 114 at 6w1d, mmc discovered on 10-18-13, D&C on 10/23/13 (baby girl/Trisomy 10)
Third BFP (surprise at Beta draw after d&c) on 1/10/14 (15dpo), EDD 9.20.14 Please be our RAINBOW!
Baby Girl born September 23, 2014
when putting on your underwear feels like some sort of circus act complete with awkward balancing and foot roping maneuvers.
Mom of Boys!!
Baby #1 - 3 years old
Baby #2 - Born 10/1/14
When you work in a professional atmosphere and everyone has just accepted yoga pants (or as DH calls them 'stretchy pants') as the office norm for you, unless you have a client, then you can expect to be presentable for only those hours with stretchy pants on hand for meetings closure.
@MrsLaLaBug, also when you stand like a man. had dh take my weekly update this week and was appalled when i saw them! i looked like i was a large football player ready to take my stance but with bad posture. no bueno
S14 August Siggy Challenge.....ALL OF THE ALCOHOLS
Or on the flip side of the coin - when you feel like you should receive a medal because you do still take the steps, up two flights, instead of the elevator even though half of your non-pregnant co-workers do not.
-- when you make your hubby help you put on your pants every time.
-- when your 4 year old has to help Mama off the couch.
-- when you get up every two hours during the night to pee.
-- when getting up or even every time you turn in bed is an Olympic event.
-- when Baby Girl is sitting in such a way on your sciatica nerve, that it makes it hurt so bad you can't walk to the bathroom for the hundredth time today.
-- when you waddle so much, you look and feel like a duck.
ETA: And I was not about to try and climb up into an Escalade.
^^^ September Signature: TV series I plan on binge watching with my newborn I do what I want. ^^^
Gage Douglas 09.04.2014...my sunshine after the rain.
I assumed that happened to me because I looked like I would stab them... I've been feeling stabby lately.
That actually could be the reason instead.
Ooh - I have another one!
-When your husband moves to the guest bedroom every night because you and baby and your fort of pillows have kicked him out of any kind of sleeping space.