random pregnancy thoughts

I was wanting to start embroidering baby clothes or something but am still too busy to do those. in morocco there was this charity that sold gorgeous hand-embellished fabric items, mostly women's and baby clothes. they were so pretty, as they were mostly white woven cotton and embellished with colored embroidery or crochet. they cost an arm and a leg though, as i swear morocco tends to exploit tourists. but that is for another blog entry.  

I read about pregnancy brain, and then I read that it was some kind of hoax invented by a bunch of people. Not that i am experiencing it, but my Kiwi friend says she is (on top of of her difficult pregnancy). My own theory is, your brain is trying to make you think of the baby as the most important thing (plus all the things that go with it) so your brains diverts you from focusing on “less important” matters.

Interrupted sleep is supposed to gear you towards the first month with the baby who would have an erratic sleep-wake pattern. Don’t quote me, I just read random stuff. Sometimes I wake up and I’m totally lucid. Sometimes it’s because I’m conscious that I’m changing position. In reality, if I didn’t know that you’re not supposed to sleep on your back (which I tend to do) I would have gone on doing it. Now changing position wakes me up, I guess subconsciously making sure I don’t end up on my back. 

Sometimes I do wake up in the night with some pain around my lower back, hip level. Sometimes my hip clicks, but it started doing that more often when I got pregnant.

I’ve really only had two annoying days. One in morocco when we kept walking everywhere and my belly just wanted me to stop walking. One last week when I was sure the baby was dancing on my bladder. Otherwise I could forget I am pregnant, though it is getting more difficult to bend over to pick up pumpkin the cat, and on occasion, i feel more tired than I am used to. If I do some lengthy walking at night, my legs are not able to recover and are “ngalay” until the next day, so I limit my already limited walking to no later than late afternoon.

Sounds like I’ve been reading a lot. Not really.

I want my body back. Konti na lang.