Irritating abdominal cramps are still going. This is another thing to add to the list of "why did no one ever tell me this?" about pregnancy. Right at the top of the list is something I found out from a friend who had a baby last year, who found out from her friend who handed over a bag of "useful things" shortly after she had given birth that included paper underwear. It turns out the paper underwear is something you might want to wear after giving birth as you can bleed for a week or two. Now a week, that's not a huge amount worse than a regular period. But no one makes paper knickers for that - how bad is this bleeding? I was mildly freaked out about that for a couple of days until I decided that was something that could be ignored and never thought about again. I assume the only reason these things are never discussed is because if you did add them all together, no one would ever want to go through it all!
New "symptom" for the day is total absence of hunger. I'm rarely hungry at breakfast time (I get up at 6 which is far too early to think about things like food), so normally grab a cereal bar or some breakfast biscuits and a glass of juice. The weird thing was lunch time, I had taken a bit of leftover pasta with tomato and veg sauce, and some leftover chicken (which I assume is a terrible idea, apparantly listeria lurks around every corner). Halfway through I realised I had completely lost interest in eating it. I did finish it, and followed with a stick of pineapple and a mini muller corner. A couple of hours later I was feeling quite sick...maybe I should stop eating when my stomach says to.
I have also downloaded a couple of tracking apps to my phone, this isn't acceptance yet, but perhaps if I keep doing things like this it will hit me. Both of them have links to message boards for your "due date club" (horrific much?). These seem to be full of frantic women testing days before they can know, or looking at lines fainter than a ghost and hoping for the best. It all seems a bit crazy, but maybe crazy will hit me soon.
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