First trimester:
Welcome to your first trimester! This is the period when you are still small, but you're too sick to do anything about it. All day morning sickness coupled with extreme fatigue and rotating emotions make you a real treat for your spouse or significant other.
You also become something of a conversationalist with dialogue resembling this:
Expecting mother: Can you please hand me the... Uhh... Ummm... Uhh... Rectangle...
Husband: Cereal?
EM: Yes, sorry... My brain is... Uhh... What's the word?
H: Mush?
EM: Yes, that's it!
There is a tiered system of discomfort within your pregnancy with your third and first trimesters battling it out for most miserable, and your second trimester shimmering as a shiny beacon of hope giving you no warning for the nearly unbearable final trimester.
Second trimester:
Your second trimester presents you with a burning star of energy. Between your second trimester and your nesting period, you are somehow able to finish the baby's room, the novel you have been working on for five years, and solve most of the world's problems. Basically, you have a belly but you just don't care. Nothing hinders you.
Third trimester:
Hello darkness, my old friend.
What discomfort don't you have in your final trimester? What happened to your boundless energy, calm stomach and ability to sleep? Gone away.
Here we have acid reflux, heartburn, fatigue, constipation, inability to sleep, shortness of breath, irritability, baby feet jammed under your ribs, heat spells, head aches, nose bleeds, trouble standing up and sitting down, Braxton hicks...
Sure some of these symptoms appear in the second trimester but they take on a more sinister approach in the final one.
Dday
The day arrives when you go to the hospital and a variety of things can happen from c-sections, twenty hours or labor, four hours of pushing, many many painful things, and for many of us, an epidural... And at the end of all that...
You will hold in your arms a person whom you will be hopelessly in love with for the rest of your life, and by the time your next child is conceived, the difficulties of your first pregnancy will be softened in your memory giving you the resolve to once again sojourn onward.
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Yes, we are expecting baby #3 sometime at the end of February! Yep, this is our birth announcement. (Written in my 7th week. You're welcome).
