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[rivka]

I've gone back and made a bunch of entries visible, dating back to the last week of July. They are probably only of interest to the pregnancy-obsessed.

Oh my God my new maternity bra is the most comfortable undergarment I have ever put on. I never want to take it off. They'll have to pry my cold dead fingers from it. Frighteningly, it's a size 40E, and I'm told that it will probably only fit for a little while. That may not seem like a frightening size to you, but keep in mind that so far I've been losing, not gaining, weight with this pregnancy. I can pull the waistline of my slim-fit jeans out two inches, but my tits are like zeppelins.

Some of the prenatal labs they drew on Monday are already back. I am HIV negative. I don't have antibodies to toxoplasmosis - but fortunately, person-to-person infection is very rare. (I don't have cats.) I do, thank God, have antibodies to cytomegalovirus. When I did my dissertation research, I interviewed the parents of a child with congenital CMV infection. She couldn't speak, see, or hear, and had little voluntary control of her muscles. Because I could be exposed to CMV through contact with my patients, the image of that child has haunted me for a long time.

Getting eight hours of sleep a night really does seem to help keep the pregnancy symptoms manageable. I just can't do the six-hours-a-night-all-week-and-make-it-up-on-weekends thing anymore.

Comments

[tammylc.livejournal.com]

Color me pregnancy-obsessed - I went back and read all of your pregnancy entries. Oh, I remember those days! I loved being pregnant - I'm really going to enjoy reading along with yours. Smack me if I comment, advise or reminisce too much.

Can't wait to see you and give you a great big hug! I'm so excited and thrilled for both of you.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Oh God, comment all you want. I love having people to talk to about this. Sensible people, I mean, not like the ones on the Babycenter boards.

[tammylc.livejournal.com]

Avoid babycenter like the plague - those people are scary! I think you'd probably like the mothering.com message boards - that's my primary online hangout for parenting stuff.