Second Trimester, Amen!!!

I made it. I can not tell you the relief that has washed over me simply because I have come to a date on the calendar that signifies that things are supposed to change for the better. What am I referring to?

As of this week I am in my second trimester. Goodbye month one, two and three. Hello to the hopeful and just around the corner relief from relentless nausea, exhaustion, and hormonal explosion. (Fingers crossed!)

I never intended to become pregnant and thus had no real expectation of what the experience would be like. But, I have to admit that I did think it was a bit more pleasant and heartwarming that it has been thus far. One of these days I would like to sit down and have a little conversation with Eve (as in the Garden of Eden) because I think pregnancy could have been a little more like it is in the movies had she not eaten that stupid apple. Perhaps, she ate it when she was pregnant though and then I have to admit I understand entirely. She had a craving, enough said.

Here is a little list of things (Good, bad and otherwise) that I have been keeping regarding things I did not know about pregnancy.

1. I have puked so much that my three year old son knows the "puke drill" and promptly brings his mother a cup of water and stars screaming for daddy to come to the rescue.
2. I have the heightened smelling sense of a mutant who transforms into a evil maniac at the smell of almost anything aside from grass and fresh ice tea.
3. People assuming/stating/implying that our pregnancy is somehow more of a miracle than our adoption.
4. I sleep all the time and yet drag myself lethargically around like a woman who has not slept in days.
5. Pregnancy does something to your glands so that you produce a lot more saliva. I never knew that when pregnant I would actually slobber on myself.
6. As if I already did not have a peanut sized bladder...
7. The impulsive and unpredictable tears that come as a result of just about anything I would never normally cry over (like genuine anger that the government permits television commercials displaying food items that will then make a pregnant woman puke on site simply because Olive Garden is having a stupid lunch special and had to advertise it on my TV).
8. I would despise things I once loved~ coffee, guacamole, human beings in general.
9. Did you know that even MOLES get bigger during pregnancy? Really. Isn't that terrific news? Moles. Of all things. Moles. Great, just great.
10. Pregnancy produces some pretty funny farts. That is good payback for the two menfolk I live with.
11. I did not think it possible to actually have boobs as big as the cantaloupe I just bought.
12. I think I thought that I would feel cute. WRONG. I feel fat. Just fat.
13. Never knew I would happily wear Jason's underwear because even grannies panties cut off my circulation.
14.. I can add to my resume that I can grow people.
15. I can wear a T-shirt of Buddha that says, "touch my belly for good luck" and it will actually be kind of funny.
16. My attentive and gracious husband actually said, "I am so happy today. You are feeling good enough now to be irritable, that is great honey!" And, he meant it. Bless that man.
17. I have embarked on the world hamburger tour.
18. People at church only smile at me when I come in late toting the worlds largest cherry lime-aid from Sonic. They understand my slurping during service and I can get away with drinking soda during communion.
19. Having my son ask me if there is a baby in my tummy and then moments later asking me if there was bacon in there too.....
20. For the first time in my life I have some "junk in the trunk" and I like that a little bit, but I did not know that my butt and my chin would grow along with my tummy.
21. Being able to successfully use the phrase, "Sweetheart, The baby needs a Reese's peanut butter cup ice cream sundae with extra Reese's."
22. On really bad days being able to chalk the absolute lack of domestic productivity up to growing a brain...or lung...or another vital organ....and thus being very productive.
23. Oh my word, maternity clothes are so expensive! And, really it is hard to find my style.
24. I never knew that a pregnancy craving that is satisfied (like my dire need for my great-grandmothers strawberry shortcake) is seriously better than anything in the world at that moment.
25. I never knew pregnancy would make me a maniac. Seriously. A maniac.
26. I never knew sleeping on my side, a shirt touching my neck, or the thought of ranch dressing would make me puke...in Walgreen's. Nice, huh?


There is more. Lots more. But, alas exhaustion has set in and it is bedtime for me.
A cute little story to end on~

At the doctors office Samuel was head over heels blown away by the fact that people can and do at times pee into a cup. He announced upon learning this, "That is so cool! Can I pee in a cup too?"

And, that there is why I can handle more days of puking and even the very thought of growing moles....because it all adds up to another sweetheart that will make Jason and I glow with pride, surprise, and love.


~ KLB
Isaiah 46:3-4