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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]

www.mothering.com has excellent boards, if you're looking for something outside of LJ.

[kcobweb.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU!!! I'll have to check it out tonight after work!

[tammylc.livejournal.com]

And in terms of LJ communities, I'd recommend pregnantwomen if you want to get away from what I'm sure are large amounts of teenage angst in pregnant.

oldermoms is for moms 30 and over (not that 30 is old, but given LJ median age...) and is a similarly angst-free zone. You could join now for a sneak peak of what's ahead!