Week 27 Update
Here we are at week 27 and I am happy to report that the week of pain is over! My neck pain worked itself out and my back has been feeling good lately.
My current complaint involves a horrible taste in my mouth that won't go away no matter how many times I brush my teeth and no matter what kind of food I eat. I think perhaps eating a lemon will help. We'll see.
The McNugget is now about 14.4 inches long and weighs about 2 pounds "like the head of a cauliflower" according to our friends at babycenter.com.
This week is one of the hardest ones to define in pregnancy math. Some places tell me I have just entered my third trimester (woah, already?!?!), others categorize me as 7 months in and still other places say I'm still at the six month mark for another two weeks. I give up.
Other things I've noticed lately include a failing memory. Some days this is more pronounced than others. It's embarrassing when I can't remember the names of people I once worked with or an old TV show. Other days I am pleasantly surprised by what I can recall. I hope this gets better after the McNugget arrives, or not long after that.
My insomnia and anxiety dreams persist but I am getting better at dealing with the awake time (i.e. no more scaring myself about D-day). Last night I woke up from a weird (fortunately not terrifying) dream around 3AM and wasn't able to fall back asleep until 5AM. The insomnia does not seem to be entirely McNugget related, it's not as if persistent kicks are waking me or keeping me up but I am sure the McNugget still has something to do with it.
Speaking of whom, I'm impressed at how much the McNugget lets me do even this late into the game. On Sunday it was ridiculously hot in LA (the temp hovered just above and below 100 degrees all weekend) and I still managed to go on a walking tour with a group of people in the social justice fellowship I'm doing this year. We spent the morning in Boyle Heights (read Boiling Heights) and then spent some time downtown. I left before the last one and a half miles (quit while you're ahead, right?) but I felt great when I did leave and was pleasantly surprised at the McNugget's cooperation.
My current complaint involves a horrible taste in my mouth that won't go away no matter how many times I brush my teeth and no matter what kind of food I eat. I think perhaps eating a lemon will help. We'll see.
The McNugget is now about 14.4 inches long and weighs about 2 pounds "like the head of a cauliflower" according to our friends at babycenter.com.
This week is one of the hardest ones to define in pregnancy math. Some places tell me I have just entered my third trimester (woah, already?!?!), others categorize me as 7 months in and still other places say I'm still at the six month mark for another two weeks. I give up.
Other things I've noticed lately include a failing memory. Some days this is more pronounced than others. It's embarrassing when I can't remember the names of people I once worked with or an old TV show. Other days I am pleasantly surprised by what I can recall. I hope this gets better after the McNugget arrives, or not long after that.
My insomnia and anxiety dreams persist but I am getting better at dealing with the awake time (i.e. no more scaring myself about D-day). Last night I woke up from a weird (fortunately not terrifying) dream around 3AM and wasn't able to fall back asleep until 5AM. The insomnia does not seem to be entirely McNugget related, it's not as if persistent kicks are waking me or keeping me up but I am sure the McNugget still has something to do with it.
Speaking of whom, I'm impressed at how much the McNugget lets me do even this late into the game. On Sunday it was ridiculously hot in LA (the temp hovered just above and below 100 degrees all weekend) and I still managed to go on a walking tour with a group of people in the social justice fellowship I'm doing this year. We spent the morning in Boyle Heights (read Boiling Heights) and then spent some time downtown. I left before the last one and a half miles (quit while you're ahead, right?) but I felt great when I did leave and was pleasantly surprised at the McNugget's cooperation.
posted by Jamie at
11:30 AM
2 Comments:
so glad you had fun on the walking tour! was one of my favorite things last year.
Pointy-headed-intellectual meta-comment: you noted your memory loss in a blog post a few weeks back. So you are having memory loss about your memory loss. And therefore I cannot drink from the glass in front of you...
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