Definitely feeling pregnant.
Aug. 4th, 2004 12:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rivkaInaugural fifth-week symptoms: queasiness and sore nipples. Helloooo, hormones.
It hurts just to brush something against my clothed chest. Not a lot, but wow are my nipples tender. And I keep having brief and not-too-awful episodes of nausea. Let's hope the scrolling-text trigger turns out not to be an ongoing thing, or I'm in real trouble.
In a weird way, I'm happy to be having symptoms. It's nice to have some concrete marker of all the enormous activity going on inside my body - I mean, the baby's making organs, for heaven's sake, it's got a tiny poppyseed-sized heart that will begin pumping blood sometime this week if everything goes well. And my body's working overtime to keep up.
I can't see or feel any of the real business going on inside me. I can't tell if fetal development is doing well or doing poorly or if it's stopped entirely. This huge process is going on completely outside my reach. Pregnancy symptoms are my only route in. A wave of nausea means, "Wow, that embryo of mine is really pumping out human chorionic gonadotropin!" That's as close as I can get.
It hurts just to brush something against my clothed chest. Not a lot, but wow are my nipples tender. And I keep having brief and not-too-awful episodes of nausea. Let's hope the scrolling-text trigger turns out not to be an ongoing thing, or I'm in real trouble.
In a weird way, I'm happy to be having symptoms. It's nice to have some concrete marker of all the enormous activity going on inside my body - I mean, the baby's making organs, for heaven's sake, it's got a tiny poppyseed-sized heart that will begin pumping blood sometime this week if everything goes well. And my body's working overtime to keep up.
I can't see or feel any of the real business going on inside me. I can't tell if fetal development is doing well or doing poorly or if it's stopped entirely. This huge process is going on completely outside my reach. Pregnancy symptoms are my only route in. A wave of nausea means, "Wow, that embryo of mine is really pumping out human chorionic gonadotropin!" That's as close as I can get.
