Oh, God, the constipation. Reason # 38249273 why I will never again be pregnant.
Are you here yet?
Exploiting my baby
Wait, didn’t you just do a thread on this topic? 
Does it seem like time is going by faster or slower compared to non-pregnant time?
Speak for yourself - I’m 4 months along and they look like friggin’ torpedos. I suspect by the end they’ll be as big as my head.
(FWIW, they were on the larger size to begin with).
I didn’t watch the video, but no, I haven’t really had any kind of baby- or pregnancy-related meltdown. Fortunately (or un- ?), the pregnancy is the lowest source of stress in my life right now.
From the comments, though, I gather she was partly upset about skin breakouts, and I’m with her there. I’ve had rosacea for the last few years, but now it’s out of control. My entire face is dry, flaky, and covered with hundreds of bright red pustules. Imagine Neelix with leprosy.
It’s pretty much normal so far, since my body hasn’t started changing visibly yet. But every checkup, it’s “Whoa! I can’t believe how much little Lumpy has grown!”
I guess the old saying is true: It takes boobies to make boobies.
Kinda like chest-erections? (I certainly hope they last longer)
As for feeling other people’s presents, the OP should be careful: She could end up pregnant. 
Musashi!
The hair thing only kicked in for me around week 18. And then fell out as soon as irishbaby was born.
Do you find yourself putting your hand on your belly at all? I used to do it ALL the time without meaning to.
Don’t worry about the boobies-when your milk comes in they’ll be HUGE- I looked like Lolo Ferrari 4 days after the birth, despite them not changing in size at all during the pregnancy.They’re back to normal now (I’m still breast feeding and the baby is nearly 8 months old).
You don’t need boobies to make boobies.
My sister and cousin (teensy ladies with microscopic boobies) both had mammoth melons by the time they gave birth. I haven’t seen my cousin since she was pregnant (thank god) but my sister still has decent size boobies 12 years after pooping out the little alien.
I have to say thanks for these threads. I’ve never, ever, in my entire life, wanted to have children.
For some reason since I turned 30 in January, I’ve been having dreams about being a parent and I find myself thinking up names for potential dwarflets. Let me tell you, it’s been a strange 2 months. I even dream about being a foster parent.
I have no plans to get pregnant any time soon, as I’d like to get married first (I’m not a traditionalist, I’d just like to have health insurance). I’m also way too fat to get pregnant right now. I need to lose at least 60 pounds first.
But still, if my subconscious is going to torture me with hints of pregnancy in my future, it’s nice to have your month-by-month progress report.
Has the doctor made you remove any body piercings?
I’ve talked with friends and it seems the medical folks are split. Another friend kept her nipple and pube piercings nearly to the end. Another friend’s Doc recommended losing her navel ring early in the pregnancy. The butterfly tat on her lower back got stretched out. Almost looked like a bat. I guess that’s a fairly small sacrifice for having a baby.
Yeah, awesome as he sounds, that’s a no-go, and not just because that would increase the “So he’s adopted, right?” factor exponentially.
Nah. Really, I’m only just now starting to think in terms of having another being inside me. I’ll probably be more conscious of it once my stomach starts popping out, and definitely when I can feel it moving and whatnot. For now, it’s still too easy to forget that I’m pregnant at all.
Jeezycreezy! Those bastards would double my weight!
Anything’s possible. I haven’t given up hope. But I realized I’ll most likely take after my mom. She had no real boobage to speak of, although she never wore a decent bra, either. We’ll just have to wait and see. I’m not sure what I’m looking forward to more: the boobs or the baby.
Glad you enjoy them! I do wish I had more interesting things to say, but I guess no news is good news, for now. And I was kind of hoping for more weird questions, especially from the guys - the kinds of things you wonder, but can’t ask the pregnant women you know. Stuff like, “Are you farting more than usual?” (I am, and boy howdy, that’s saying something!) or “Is your vajayjay behaving any differently of late?” (Not so’s I’d notice, but I’m keeping an eye on it.) I suppose I’ll both have more to say and get more questions as time goes on.
Fortunately, none of my tats or piercings are on body parts that will be participating in any way in the pregnancy or delivery. I didn’t plan it; it just worked out that way, but it’s something I’ll certainly keep in mind for the future if I get anything else done.
Since Heart of Dorkness didn’t have any relevant piercings, I can answer a little bit. I don’t have any tats that will be affected by pregnancy, but do have a belly button ring. My doctor said I only have to take it out if it gets uncomfortable, since your belly button can pop out near the end. So far, it’s still in, but they sell soft, rubbery rings for pregnancy, too.
Other than the farting, how is your butt behaving? My mom had a massive case of hemorrhoids when she was pregnant with my oldest sister.
I’m also wondering about heartburn. Do you get it more than usual now?
Do you and your husband still have sex? Does it feel weird to you? Do you ever have visions of poking the little alien in the head?
When you talk about names, do you tend to go for trendy names (Jaydyn grr)? Old fashioned names (Margaret, Dorkus)? Basic names (John, Mary)?
Personally, I love the name Esmerelda. I love it even before I became a Discworld fan. Adam loves the name Esmerelda Margaret (Note Spelling! hehehehehe) and if we ever have a girl, we just might use that name.
Yes, we are nerds.
Thanks! And how’s your uterus treating you these days?
Badly.
I’m often constipated, but when I do poop, they aren’t the firm, dense, dark poops of yore. Now, they’re always narrow, looser, and grainy. And I used be able to just kind of let the poop out. Now, I have to actually work at it, and it’s hard to tell when I’m really done. Man, I miss easy pooping.
Also, I have a “tipped” or retroverted (backward-tilting) uterus, and apparently, it rests against my rectum. So, I frequently have the invigorating sensation of a knife being stuck into my anus. (This isn’t a totally new thing, though. I’ve occasionally had it accompany period cramps, and when I’ve had ovarian cysts rupture, I felt it really badly.) I’m not entirely sure what causes this; my IANAD-guess is that my rectum is being pinched or compressed somehow as things shift around. Pretty soon, though, my uterus should start to tip forward, and I (supposedly) won’t feel it very much anymore.
Fortunately no hemmorrhoids yet, although given how things are going, I won’t be surprised if they come along eventually.
Mercifully, no. I never have it anyway, and I don’t now, either.
Yup. I think I’m not in the mood quite as much as normal, but I’m always game, particulary since I noticed it’s actually started feeling a little better than usual. We seem to have a snugger fit now, which I guess is due to the increased blood flow to the neighborhood. As I mentioned above, I’m still not in the habit of thinking of the alien being there at all, and last I saw, little Lumpy had no discernible head as such, so I’m not concerned. I anticipate it may get a little weird when I can really tell there’s somebody in there.
I’d say somewhere between old-fashioned and basic. I like classic names that aren’t super-common, like Julia, Linda, Susan, Kenneth, Douglas, and Geoffrey, and older-sounding ones like Ruth, Irene, and Arthur (although none of those are actually in the running). My husband has a foreign-language name, and I thought that might be kind of neat, but he’d prefer an American one for Lumpy. It might be fun to use a nerdy reference like you say, but I’d want it to be sufficiently obscure and otherwise normal-sounding, so that people didn’t instantly recognize the origin: “So, you named your daughter ‘Starbuck’? Where *ever *did you come up with that?”
Growing steadily! Got any round ligament pain yet? That’s fun - it comes out of nowhere when you sneeze or roll over sometimes and feels like you’ve been stabbed in the side. Fortunately, it also comes as quickly as it goes. Otherwise, looking pregnant and feeling fairly normal. I think I’ve felt movement a couple of times, but it’s hard to tell, and it’s pretty early for that still. We find out of n00b is a boy or a girl in two weeks, which seems really soon, like I haven’t been pregant all that long.
For me, I wasn’t in the mood much until I got to the second trimester, then I got super-randy. The whole “snugger fit” thing has affected me to the point that actual intercourse, even with lots of lube, is uncomfortable - but basically anything else is just fine, fortunately. It’s also been a lot easier for me to go from zero to orgasm without too much effort, which is pretty neat.