Of All the things I have lost... I miss my Mind the most!

It is true my husband has a new pet name for me – “mush brain” it all started when I fell pregnant…

And it hasn’t stopped since. The real thing that sticks out of my husband’s mind would be me continuously misplacing my house and car keys (Continuously!). I obviously would not admit that I had forgotten where or what I had done with these keys it is never me… it is the husband’s fault - it has been know on occasion that I would make my the H-dawg (husband dawg) get out of the car, come around to the driver seat so that I may check his pockets as I believed I had in fact given my house keys to him and not his own. Keys have progressed to laptops, lunches and handbags never minding the whole spell check on important emails and more importantly blog posts.  My husband not sure of this “behavior” would go through varying degrees of emotions (Hello – who is the walking hormone here, emotions are my department) The emotions would range through shock, anger and now pure complacence as fighting/arguing/disagreeing with a pregnant women will not get you anywhere. You could ask him, but he is currently sitting in his timeout chair and will be there for a while - I added on extra time for the “you should know better”.

I can’t be one of those skinny girls who say I miss my tight ASS and flat TUMMY now that I am preggers– these two things, sadly, have always been missing in action. What I can tell you is that I don’t miss my jelly belly, I love the roundness my tummy is taking even though nobody can see I am knocked up yet - people justthink I am getting hungrier* by the day, I don’t care. *“Hungry” to replace the word “Fat”. I have a friend who has taught her children that people are not fat but are in fact hungry. Why? you may ask.  This is a prevention mechanism of one of those “embarrassing children moments” The moment when your child points and asks really loudly “Mommy, why is that person so fat?” I think its pure brilliance. 

You have many ‘pregnancy illusions’- this is how you believe things will be once you are pregnant. Everyone will give advice but one of my best piece of advice given thus far is eat chocolate and ignore everyone’s advice, but only take the advice on the eating of chocolate (love it!)

These are a few of my pregnancy day dreaming goals:

1.       I would exercise as much as I wanted, doing what I wanted – this baby will just have to fit into my schedule. Well when you have  a scare resulting at casualty in the hospital, it is then that you have to evaluate your priorities - 9 months doesn’t seem so long to take things a little easy – you realize the important thing is that the baby you have desperately waited for will be healthy.

2.       I will wear elegant flowy long dresses, hair blowing in the breeze as I look fabulous glowing and pregnant– Wow - was I mistaken! Alas you also don’t get flowy dresses in winter and you don’t want to rush out to buy a piece of clothing you will wear for a day. (I just reread this part and thought since when did I become so practical?) Maternity selection of clothing sucks - well at least here in South Africa.

3.       I will not try not being OCD when it comes to things I eat or drink– (FAIL) This happens every pregnant person will have their own stance of what they will or will not do. I have decided that raw meat, yolky eggs, blue cheese and alcohol are not  negotiable  but I will have a cup of coffee or a cup of tea should I want. Now at this point people will have an opinion tea/coffee that is so bad, my non-advice is stick with what works for you.  I had no problem going to a malaria area as we had a bag just dedicated to mosquito repellant whereas I have a friend whose family will not negotiate on this. I had a miscarriage and I learnt that whatever you do be comfortable in your choices that you don’t ever blame yourself for the result.

4.       Lastly I will not be hormonal or emotionally – need I say more… Family and friends I apologize.

Even with the hearburn that decended upon me this week i am loving being pregnant... it would be even better when one of my closest friends can start her journey in becoming a mommy – a journey that she so deserves to be on (I am positive this will be any month nowJ)

Ps. this blog has been written twice due to me forgetting to save…