I tell you what, there is such a small percentage of people who enjoy being pregnant. I’m not one of them, I love my children and I love babies but oh my goodness do I HATE being pregnant.
This is my third baby so I’ve been around the block a couple times and here’s some things that I’m doing to keep myself sane and make things a little easier.
Eating Fruit
I put lemons in my water, I smell them (a little strange but try it!) It helps with my nausea and I try to eat a lot of fruit because research shows that fruit can help with this. Just stay away from acidic fruits. Watermelon is a huge one for me too, I swear I can put down an entire watermelon to myself.
Dramamine
Now none of this is medical advice, always consult your doctor before taking anything new but the biggest game changer for me this time around has been anti nausea Dramamine. I have the chewables currently, and they just WORK. I’ll take one and in about 30 minutes its all about gone for a little while and gosh it’s made life a little more bearable.
I steal time for myself whenever I can
What I mean is I work part-time and I have to be there at 4 so I’ll steal some time to just sit in silence with myself for that little bit and it helps. Or when I’m leaving work I’ll spend some extra time in my car (my favorite spot clearly). Sometimes its been days since I’ve had a shower and I get to a point where I’m like okay I’m important to ya’ll duke it out and I’ll deal with the aftermath later but I NEED a shower. And after the long days of going and going sometimes I do not want to stay up waiting for them to fall asleep. So I just do it, and honestly most times they’re totally chill with that.
Giving myself Grace
It sounds cliche I know, but I just constantly remind myself “This isn’t forever,” “You’re going to feel terrible sometimes you’re making a new baby.” Just puts me back into perspective. Nothing has to be perfect. We’re on a floating rock for goodness sake who wrote these rules that everything has to be perfect all the time. When you show up for your day its enough. When you get up and say I’m gonna give all I got and it might not be a lot right now but its enough, it just releases the stress off of.
There’s always caveats with this and man some days I wanna rip my hair out and go back to a time when I didn’t have so much responsibility. But usually after a nights sleep looking at their sweet little faces, it just reminds me that I wouldn’t trade it for a second.
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