fetus factoids

It's hard to get any work (or play) done while I'm sitting by watching files transfer from my backup drive back onto my computer. [My computer crashed, and I had to reformat, and setting my computer back up is a slow, tedious process.] So I figured I'd take this opportunity to share some random factoids...

--I'm about half way through my pregnancy! When my good friend Jayne was pregnant, I made a big deal of how great it was when she was half way through because pregnancy SUCKS. I have to admit that now that it's me who's half way through, I'm mostly just freaked out. I look back at the first half of this pregnancy, and that really doesn't seem like enough time to get ready for everything.

--We haven't settled on a name for the baby, but I've always liked the idea of having a fetus name. For a little while, it was "the troll" because that's what she looked like on the first ultrasound, but I didn't like that much -- it sounded like the kind of thing that kids hate their parents for. More recently, I teased Max that I wanted to name the baby 'Sprog' and was deeply amused by the look of horror on his face. Since then, Sprog has become our baby's fetus name.

I'm reminded of All My Children (which I watch). One of the characters called her baby Spike while she was pregnant and talked about how she needed to find a real name for him. But after months of calling him Spike, that was just HIS NAME. I don't think this will happen with Sprog...

--I may have started feeling the baby move this past week. It's a pretty weird feeling. Max is really looking forward to the point when he can feel the baby moving from the outside, but so far it's all internal (and possibly just hallucinations anyway).

--I'm definitely starting to show, but I haven't been putting on much weight and apparently taller people tend not to pop out as much -- if you have a longer torso, the baby has more height to spread out and doesn't need to stick out as far. So I don't really look that different -- maybe a little chubbier.

--I've been surprised at how much being pregnant affects everything even in spite of the fact that I'm not that much bigger or heavier. There are weird pains and I'm just generally weaker and sore-er and it's harder to do things like sit down, stand up, roll over, or bend over to pick things up. I guess I always expected these things to be more proportionate to weight gain.

--I have NOT been having strange cravings. I generally just have less of an appetite. I do often want fried zucchini or Dorito's, but that was probably always true. My aversion to broccoli has returned to being almost as high as it ever was. Otherwise, nothing is all that strange.

--ADDENDUM: Some pregnant people miss booze & cigarettes. Not me. I miss Advil and Ativan!! I don't miss caffeine, either, but that's because I still drink coffee...