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| | This week marks the end of my first trimester, my least favorite of the With Child Trifecta.
I suppose it is because this phase of pregnancy is the time in which you feel the least maternal or feminine. It is paradoxically curious that at a time when there is a miracle of growth and life exploding within you, that the only outward appearance of this amazing process during this time is the Sea-Band tattoos I have on my wrists to futilely combat my morning sickness. I have such debilitating fatigue and nausea, I really wonder if I am indeed expecting, or rejecting a recent organ transplant. I have spent the last 6 weeks on the bathroom floor using the tile as a cold compress.
I am still wearing my normal clothes, which is okay, because maternity clothes are just evil and the longer I can avoid that horrendous indignity, the better. I think I was approximately four and a half minutes pregnant before my all of my waistbands became mysteriously as tight as nooses. And while I refuse to buy anything new until May of 2007, this it does leave limitations to my wardrobe choices. In my current state of perpetual vomiting, only a rain slicker and a lobster bib would be appropriate attire.
Being thrust into a new lifestyle isn’t really so bad. It’s not even that I mind suddenly giving up a few bad habits to ensure a healthy pregnancy. I should have probably been taking a prenatal vitamin the size of a quail’s egg all along anyway. Coffee turns my stomach at the moment, and I don’t really miss a glass of wine or 4 with dinner. I just wish I didn’t have to replace these things with a stack of saltines every hour.
And as these initial 3 months draw to a close, so do my first set of superstitions which will soon be replaced by another 6 months of differing lunacy. I can allow myself to eat cantaloupe again, but probably won’t after a particularly unsettling Chinese legend my mother once told me about. Nor will I touch my belly during a lunar eclipse but I will eat plenty of cucumbers.
Admittedly, the end of the first trimester also marks the end of a certain amount of privacy, too. The quiet knowledge when you walk into the grocery store and pick out Anjou pears without the cashier asking invasive and inappropriate questions to fill the pregnant pause while you swipe the debit card is a luxury that will soon be replaced by stranger’s random advice and name suggestions.
I realize that the next 2/3 of this incredible journey will bring its own joys, annoyances, complications and glamorous side effects, but after 3 months of seeing every meal twice, I’ll take swollen ankles over hanging my head between thin ones any day.
©2006 Tracey Henry
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