Following on from yesterday’s post about pregnancy:
Once you reach the 12 week/3 month point, which seems to take a life time, you get a scan to check that the baby is ‘viable’ (lovely term) and that it doesn’t have a variety of genetic disorders and has a head, two arms and two legs. I would have to say that this is one of the most scary things you have to do. You cannot image that things will be ok, surely something will be wrong. But all was fine and you are reassured that your pregnancy has a good chance of going the distance. However there is always the chance that it wont, and that is always on your mind. Think as soon as you get pregnant you will worry constantly for the rest of your life!
Also once you get to 12 weeks morning sickness allegedly starts to tail off! Yeah right! I was being regularly sick until I got to 27 weeks! The tiredness does tail off a bit and you start getting cravings! The first thing I craved was apple juice – that lasted only a few days and I sickened myself of it quite quickly! The main cravings I have had have been for spicy food, which really doesn’t help with heartburn! What amazed me was how specific my cravings were – I once woke up at 9am and immediately knew I wanted a kebab from the Rose Street kebab place in Aberdeen – unfortunately I have been unable to satisfy that one!!! But I would regularly fancy chilli chicken and cucumber! Another bizarre thing is craving things you normally don’t like – I have loved anything to do with mangos and even ate scampi the other day – I don’t do anything out of the sea! Been fancying sea bass as well, but know that am not allowed to eat that. There are many things you are not supposed to eat – soft cheeses like brie, runny eggs, pate, peanuts. I have had the odd poached egg, but every time it made me feel sick, so have only had about three in total, and whilst I haven’t eaten many peanuts, I haven’t completely avoided them. I have stayed well clear of pate – that is a big no-no unfortunately and I cannot wait to have some! Not having alcohol has not been difficult at all – wine tastes as it did when you were a child and is horrible! Beer makes you feel sick and I haven’t even sniffed anything else! Except I did have a craving for gin and tonic in January!
The biggest problem I suffered in my pregnancy was terrible headaches, and had a constant headache which was sometimes a migraine for all of December and January. No one was concerned about it, so just had to get on with it. It was very difficult to deal with and waking up every day needing to vomit because my head was so sore was awful. I really thought I would have it for the whole pregnancy. I had acupuncture for it and it was possibly not due to the mad hormones, but my tense neck and shoulder muscles. Other aches and pains included sciatica, lower back pain, pain in my pubic bone where the ligaments loosen and the bones separate and rub against each other. I started going to yoga at around 26 weeks and I believe it cured me of my headache and back pains. I have had very little pain since – only the pelvic pains have continued. So can definitely recommend yoga!
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