Before I start, let me give a big shout out to all the ladies out there trying and/or wanting to conceive. A dear friend who has struggled with infertility just announced her pregnancy last week and I couldn’t be happier for her. I know that being pregnant at all is a gift!
That said, there is some serious craziness that occurs in your body when pregnant. Yesterday I shared my #1 Grand Supreme Most Annoying Prenancy Side Effect on Scarymommy.com: vulvar varicosities. Yes, vulvar varicosities.
Ugh.
In the same vein (ha ha), I’d like to share my other 4 most annoying pregnancy side effects:
1. Indigestion. I experienced the worst indigestion of my life while in my first trimester. How could something the size of a grain of rice make me feel so hugely bloated and full?
2. Exhaustion. No surprise here. Again, in the first trimester all I wanted to do was take a nap. They don’t usually allow that at work. Or when you’re home with a preschooler who wants to play, either!
3. Sciatica. This strange, shooting pain from my hip to my knee knocked me out one weekend in my second pregnancy. While caring for my son, 3 1/2. Who wanted to play all day, every day. While my husband was on a business trip. I still remember trying to play ball in the back yard with my son while dragging one leg around behind me!
4. Fainting. This was a doozy. I fainted in the check out line at the grocery store while 4-months-pregnant with my first. I didn’t even look pregnant so the clerk probably thought I was drunk. And, yes, my husband was on a business trip. A nice lady drove me and my groceries home from the store. I still remember the doctors and nurses were so “whatever” about it when I called to describe it to them on the phone. Unless I had fainted and hit my head, they honestly didn’t care! Seriously, I started to joke that you could grow a third nipple and the doctor or nurse would blithely reply “that happens to some women in pregnancy.”
Now it’s your turn.
What crazy, annoying pregnancy side effects did you experience?
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Pubic symphysis pain. Your pubic symphysis is a piece of cartilidge and is located right where your pubic bones meet in the center. Anyway, it happened about the 6th month and would typically occur as I was walking down a crowded hall at work (U of M hosp). For me it was an intense, sharp pain causing me to bend over and grab my crotch and suck my breath in. I would be rendered immobile, in the middle of the hall while perfectly good doctors and nurses sped around me. And when I later told my doctor about it I too was met with a “Yes some women experience that”.
That’s a new one! We would have made quite a pregnant pair, walking around with our lady bits all out of whack.
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OMG. I really cannot stand OB GYN’s. For that very reason…”that’s normal” I moved during my pregnancy but my first OB in Indiana was a woman, and told me I was gaining weight too fast. I was on my feet all day, in school for esthetics and couldnt eat because when I wasnt running around I was dead asleep. During the SAME appointment, I asked her why my skin felt so tight, why I could push a dent into my leg and it would stay…*I was 19 at the time..* She said, swelling is normal. Blah Blah…btw, I was MAYBE 3 months pregnant when she told me I was gaining weight too fast and that much swelling was normal. I move to FL and start seeing a male OB (who I love so much!)..and he said…wow, she could have killed you and your baby. Shame on that woman for not doing more. I ended up preeclamptic and bed ridden for two months. That same lady in Indiana left afterbirth in my cousin in law after she had her son. This lady deserves a punch in the face, and so do all the other doctors who don’t take womens concerns seriously. Drives me craaaazzyyyy! lol
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Yikes. Just yikes. What is wrong with some doctors?!?
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Exhaustion hands down, I am useless around here being pregnant. I feel so frustrated that I have a list of things on my To Do, and it’s like moving mountains to find the energy to get two of them done.
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With my first, I was sooo tired and I hadn’t told anyone officially that I was pregnant. With my second, i was soooo tired and the 3 year old just didn’t care!
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I had gestational diabetes, so that wasn’t too pretty… I had to watch what I ate. I miss being pregnant, though 🙂
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Seriously, I started to joke that you could grow a third nipple and the doctor or nurse would blithely reply “that happens to some women in pregnancy.”
This is SOOO true!!! I had preeclampsia with pregnancy #1 so when I started having blinding headaches, saw flashing lights and felt really weird (i.e. high bloodpressure) PLUS seriously limited fetal movement with pregnancy #2, that’s what they told me. They didn’t even want to check my bloodpressure or check the baby.
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