I'll start. You know you are pregnant when you are craving ice due to low iron, but than need to take tums to fight the heartburn that the ice gives you.
When you drop a potato chip and just call the dog over to eat it, because you can't pick it up. (Or if it's not food related, kick it under something else. Hopefully no one at work pulls out my file cabinet under my desk because it's become a graveyard for pens and paper clips.)
Granted we found out we were pregnant in the warmer months, but somehow I made it to 27 weeks without. wearing. pants. Flowey dresses, the stretchiest skirts and shorts, workout clothes, pajamas. Pants were (/are) much too compromising with the unexpected bloat. Not even embarrassed about it--kind of proud of myself.
When you grunt and grimace getting into bed and struggle to put things laying on the bed away before finally giving up and turning to your SO, defeated, and say, "Can you do something with these TV remotes?"
And he reminds you 5 minutes later, "Remember that time you got pissed off at the TV remotes and were just like 'I can't even' with them?"
When you suddenly develop gorilla grip feet to grab things off the floor with your toes so you don't have to bend down........
Long toes FTW! I've been doing this for a while lol. The problem will be when it's too hard to bring our legs up far enough to get the thing out of our toes lol.
When you go from "I'm not hungry at all" to "GET OUT OF MY WAY I MUST HAVE FOOD NOW" in 30 seconds. And then after eating you feel crappy because of heartburn.
When strangers are approaching you asking when you're due. In the last couple weeks I've had about 5 people ask me when I was due then proceed to say I looked ready any day. I have a minimum of 8 weeks left! They're inducing me at 39 weeks if I don't have him before then.
@Marynog Ugh the phantom hunger! I was making cupcakes for our neighbors earlier and had a stomach ache from all the random sugar after eating random bits of frosting and toppings and told my fiancee, "I am done with sugar for at least 3 days and probably won't want dinner for another 3 or 4 hours." Not even 20 minutes later, I came in the room and told him I was starving and he just was like, "Um yeah I figured you'd be like that..."
When you ask your husband to be your water handler because your bump makes reaching onto the table a foot away too much effort. And when you cry in baby gap because baby clothes are soooooo cute.
When you go from "I'm not hungry at all" to "GET OUT OF MY WAY I MUST HAVE FOOD NOW" in 30 seconds. And then after eating you feel crappy because of heartburn.
When you force on a small 'pre-pregnancy' shirt and it gets stuck between your boobs and belly.... Because "If it's too tight on top I'll just pull it down to take it off.... oh wait..." *pregnancy brain* *cue husband's giggles*
When your having an office meeting about cutting down 4th quarter expenses, and your boss brings up the recent increase in toilet paper cost..... and everyone looks at you........Hey when you gotta go you gotta go!!!
When you're part of regular conference calls and an hour into each call someone asks "does anyone have a hard stop at the end of the hour?" and everyone jokes that you probably need a bathroom break and you chime in, "Actualllly.... yes."
When your husband keeps asking "Are you sure you can walk that far?" "Don you think you can stay on your feet that long??" "How much water have you had today???"
He's a little extra worried after our first birthing class.... Lol :P
When the cashier at Target says "You look really uncomfortable." First of all I don't know you and second I wasn't uncomfortable until you said that. Then the conversation made me uncomfortable. I guess par for the course in the third trimester...
You spend one day freaking out in your head when your baby seems to move a little less than normal, but then you can't focus or concentrate the next day when he is moving nonstop and simultaneously crushing your rib cage and bladder. The grass is always greener.
Oh my, I feel all of these. Mine today was when you sit down in a colleagues office to discuss something and the conversation ends but you can't get up because you are so tired and it takes too much effort to move.
Re: You know you're pregnant when...
Me: 33 DH: 38 Married: 1/10/15
1st Pregnancy EDD: 1/1/17 Born 1/10/17 Team Green turned Blue!
2nd Pregnancy EDD: 11/6/18 Born 11/09/18 Baby Boy!
3rd Pregnancy EDD: 12/?/21
Children are like casseroles; it takes a lot to mess them up.
Student: "Mrs R! Your belly is moving again!! Look everyone!"
*ALL students stop what they are doing to stare at my moving belly*
...getting them back on task after these moments is a real treat!
Diagnosed with Hashimoto's 06/17
TTC #2: 01/2019
BFP #2 09/24/19--Ended in chemical pregnancy
BFP #3 07/02/2020 Due: 03/10/2021
Me: 31 | Husband: 32
Married: September 2014!
TTC #1: January 2016 BFP 5/16/16 Quinn Born 1/27/17
And he reminds you 5 minutes later, "Remember that time you got pissed off at the TV remotes and were just like 'I can't even' with them?"
When you're hungry but can't decide what to eat because honestly, you could eat anything and everything.
BFP1 12/24/14 - EDD 09/07/15 (D/C 8w1d)
BFP2 6/12/15 - EDD 2/22/16 (D/C 10w3d)
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Diagnoses and Treatments
PCOS (myo-inositol, excercize)
Indeterminant levels of APS IgM antibodies (baby aspirin)
Sub-septate uterus (hysteroscopic septoplasty 12/18/15)
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BFP3 05/02/16 EDD 01/09/17 DS born 01/05/17
BFP4 01/28/19 EDD 10/?/19 🤞🙏
Also +1 for grunts. We got a new mattress a few weeks ago and it's very tall. I have to do flutter kicks to get up & out hahaha!
Diagnosed with Hashimoto's 06/17
TTC #2: 01/2019
BFP #2 09/24/19--Ended in chemical pregnancy
BFP #3 07/02/2020 Due: 03/10/2021
I told DH about this experience this morning and he started laughing. I told him he can't laugh cuz it may actually happen one day!
When you ask your husband to be your water handler because your bump makes reaching onto the table a foot away too much effort. And when you cry in baby gap because baby clothes are soooooo cute.
Diagnosed with Hashimoto's 06/17
TTC #2: 01/2019
BFP #2 09/24/19--Ended in chemical pregnancy
BFP #3 07/02/2020 Due: 03/10/2021
Because "If it's too tight on top I'll just pull it down to take it off.... oh wait..."
*pregnancy brain*
*cue husband's giggles*
He's a little extra worried after our first birthing class.... Lol :P
Team Blue ~ Jan. 20
DS born 9/4/12
MMC July 2015
MMC January 2016
BFP#5 5/22/17 EDD:1/27/17 It's a GIRL!!!!