Helen, age 28, 5'3". Happily in love & married to Dave, proud mommy to Baby Bean, grateful for love and life. B.C., Canada. Full-time mental health therapist (aka shrink). Left wing, pro-peace, semi-hippy, pro-green, socialist at heart. Agnostic Buddhist. Viet-Chinese. Spiritual but not religious. All-around dork meister supreme.



The Rest of the Week

The rest of the week went much better, thankfully. After that little venting session I had in the last entry, I seemed to have snapped out of it. I work very hard to keep myself emotionally stable so that I’m healthy, vibrant, and good to myself and everyone else around me. Every so often, I suppose we all need a bit of crazy, stupid, moody time in our lives. It gets all that icky, toxic feeling out of us once and for all.

There are some pregnancy symptoms that I am not very fond of. For example, hormones dictate that now I have these weird lines on my neck that weren’t there before. They’re odd, and I don’t like them. Another example? My face breaks out uncontrollably on my chin and around my nose. It doesn’t matter how much water I drink, I still get tons of pimples. Ordinarily, I don’t get much unless I’m stressed or when it’s my time of the month. I don’t even want to use any type of acne treatment because I don’t want to risk it not being safe for the baby, so I end up annoying picking at pimples and zits on my face. I know, I know, TMI, but goodness sake, it’s annoying. I want to be clear skinned again! Another example: my legs cramp up a lot easier these days, and I still get charlie horses during the night from time to time. They come out of nowhere and my legs get all stiff and crampy. Not fun at all.

Okay, enough bitch festing. Other than that, this pregnancy is treating me very well. I feel healthy, happy, and I can eat 5 times my regular share. It’s a strange sight. Dave gets a kick out of it. Watching me eat now is like witnessing how many clowns can be squeezed into a tiny little car. Heh.


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Lines on your neck? Stretch marks maybe?

Not really stretch marks… but darker skin pigments. Doc said they should disappear after pregnancy. I hope so!

I can sympathize with annoying pimples been there done that. But the bright side is, of all the bad things that could happen to you during a pregnancy like gestational hypertension or gestational diabetes I’d rather have pimples *HUGS* :)
Although the charlie horses just have to plain suck, period. Ugh! Poor legs! Probably not used to carrying the extra body weight and they just rebel against you… d’oh.

I dont know about the lines but I got these little brown bumps from the last baby I had. I wanted to let you know I have your box ready to go and hopefully tommorow I can get to the post office. I can also relate to the pimples thing I have always had a clear face and now out of nowhere I am getting pimples left and right . not even as a teenager did I break out so much.

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