Pregnancy Dictionary, Part 1
Fun words and phrases from this stage of my pregnancy.Fundal Height: The distance your little, internal helium balloon floats up toward your navel.
To Pop: When you can no longer "suck it in" (and thankfully already bought some maternity jeans.)
Quickening: The sudden and startling realization that movements in your gut aren't gas bubbles. Also, coincides with the first time you realize you are not alone.
Cranky: How you act most of the time when you're not feeling grateful for being allowed to take part in this strange miracle.
posted by k_sra at 1/09/2009 08:55:00 AM
8 Comments:
Do you have sudden, strange addictions to smells or foods yet? My mom couldn't get enough of the laundry detergent aisle when she was pregnant with one of us. And I think when she was pregnant with me she had an urge to keep drinking orange juice. Not that that's a strange addiction, but still.
Thank you for the dictionary words! How cool that you are feeling Squiggles moving around!
I meant she couldn't get enough of smelling the detergent aisle, not eating any of it.
I worked in an ob/gyn clinic and I've been pregnant twice, so I know all of those words oh too well...Especially the last one.
Tara, I have a profound attraction to grapefruit juice. Also, yogurts and cottage cheese are staples now, not luxuries. No detergent sniffing yet, but there is a heightened distate for fumes of most any kind. I don't follow cars in traffic as closely as I did and I can smell cigarettes ten miles away. Other than that, I haven't sent my husband running for tacos or milkshakes or anything at three in the morning. that probably comes later! :P
Churlita, I bet you were a good office assist/nurse/doctor whatever you were. Today I get to go and have "the routine" which is how I refer to the BP, weight, heartbeat appointments.
Need any dill pickles, pistachio ice cream, whipped cream and sardines? If so, I'm going to the store later, just ask.
Alien, what a kind offer! You will make some woman a fine husband someday. :)
I have yet to make such extravagant requests of my husband, but I think secretly he'll feel cheated if I don't ask him at least once for a midnight whopper with arby's curly fries and a wendy's frosty. Otherwise, what stories will he be able to tell his buddies? : ) I'm sure I'll be more demanding and pitiful at 7-9 months pregnant. Then I'll get him good. Tee hee hee!
Here's a tip: Don't wait until after midnight to get a craving for onion rings. Nobody sells them fresh after 11 or so (even a bar I called said their kitchen was closed), so you'll be left with grocery store onion rings, which just aren't the same.
What an exciting time!
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