Body language

Yesterday I put a regularly-filled laundry basket on the floor. I didn't feel anything wrong, but my suspicion is that was the move that threw my back out, and I spent the rest of the day in considerable pain (no, you can't take muscle relaxants while pregnant as far as I know). This precipitated a downward spiralling argument between me and my body that resulted in me telling Carl we're adopting any future children and going to bed crying. It was partly back pain, partly looking lumpy, partly nausea, the fact that no bras fit me, and a whole lot of hormones and stress, I think.

It didn't help that I had to work, so I was typing, and then getting up and stretching with much swearing, every 15 minutes, all day.

But still; I've had more problems this pregnancy already than I did for Emily's entire one and we're only at 8 weeks. When I was 8 weeks pregnant with Emily I barely noticed! How am I going to get through this? (Well this much is simple: short of abortion, which I would not do, there's really no choice.)

The good news though is that the fatigue seems to be lifting slowly, provided I have at least one 20 minute walk each day, and that's not a bad thing (unless your back is killing you). I'm also able to tolerate more food, although I guess the broccoli-carrot-raisin salad sort of strained my stomach yesterday. The fruit cravings are really kicking in strongly and I have to watch that I don't go completely overboard. And I was able to keep some milk down, after training on yoghurt for a few days.

Also nastyman didn't smoke last night, so I have hopes he was staying here for one month only and is gone. We'll see.

So let's see.

Yesterday breakfast: whole wheat waffles with strawberries
Lunch: whole wheat bagel with cream cheese and cucumber
Snacks: tropical fruit in juice from Dole, apple, salsa with corn chips (bad!)
Dinner: the afore-mentioned broccoli salad, and then I couldn't eat much after that.

The day before I craved growing-up comfort food so we had:
Lunch: whole wheat bagel with cream cheese and a yoghurt
Snacks: Hmmm. Can't remember, if there were any beyond saltines
Dinner: Sloppy joes on whole-wheat buns and broccoli-carrot-raisin salad (which went down fine then!)

The broccoli salad btw is a pre-shredded coleslaw mix that cleverly uses the broccoli stalks and is super easy (just add dressing, although we add extra carrots and raisins and sometimes almonds or pine nuts), and good for you and mnn crunchy good. I think it has a bit of red cabbage in it as well.