from Ben's mom
This week the aches and pains and leg cramps started in earnest. M agreed with me that I've popped out again. (It seems I get bigger in stages; I pop out and then hold that position for awhile and then pop again.)
So here's my attempt at the brighter side. I'd love more suggestions (SJ, you could help):
5) No one thinks you're lazy because you don't get up off the couch.
4) Everyone encourages you to take a nap.
3) The volcano moving across your stomach has become a real little person to you.
2) No one raises eyebrows when you have to "EAT NOW."
1) No one notices your chubby arms and thighs.
3 comments:
* You are exempt from much cleanup because you can't bend over.
* You can buy a twelve-pack of root beer and claim it all to yourself because your stomach won't let you have food after 7:30 p.m.
* You can rest your root beer can on your tummy while you read. (Not recommended if Baby is in an active stage.)
* You can either eat pickily or eat ravenously, and nobody says anything either way.
-- SJ
Oh, and as for the leg cramps: I leaped out of bed at 6:30 yesterday morning to stand on a particularly vicious leg cramp. Darren saw me but didn't bother to stir because I wasn't pacing around and wasn't trying to wake him, so he figured it wasn't labor. As my sister remarked, "Boy, you can tell this isn't a first baby."
-- SJ
*People at church take over your responsibilities because they think you are too tired to do anything.
*You can back out of anything that sounds remotely unappealing and claim pregnancy woes and everyone will "understand."
And I agree with SJ on the exemptions from cleanup because you can't bend over. It even works with customers whose little children have spread things out on the floor. Now they make them clean up instead of leaving it and expecting ME to do it for them!
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