Strange Pregnancy Symptoms

1.Needing to pee! Its not just when your baby gets big inside of you that the need to pee every 14 seconds happens… it can happen for the majority of your pregnancy. With my first pregnancy I didn’t have this too much, but during my second pregnancy (which started about a year after my first son was born) I had to pee constantly from as early in my pregnancy as I can recall. I don’t know why I had a reprieve during my first pregnancy, but I was lucky. When you get pregnant, your hormone levels go berserk, and your blood volume increases and those two things are what do it. Expect it!

2. You’ve undoubtedly heard of morning sickness, but for me, it was much worst then I could have imagined. For starters, I have NO idea why its called ‘morning’ sickness. I was sick morning, noon and night. Also, its not just nausea, for me it was dizziness, lightheadedness, severe exhaustion, dehydration (even when I was hydrating regularly). There were foods I couldn’t look at or smell, let alone eat. I lost five pounds during my first trimester with both of my pregnancies (it doesn’t hurt the baby that early).

3. I got SPOTS! Apparently this is common, but I got the same HUGE (seriously, the size of a F@#king dime) mole looking thing on my face! It went away after the first pregnancy, came back for the second, and then left afterwards, but it was weird and terrifying (I was certain it was cancerous, but my doctor assured me I’m a dumbass, and that it was not cancerous). I believe its called keratosis or something along those lines.

SECOND… Skin Tags! I’m not a fan. They turned up on my neck, lower boobs and armpits. Most did not leave after delivery, but being someone who loves the doctor (sarcasm, sarcasm, sarcasm), I literally just pinched them off myself. They’re gone now. I wouldn’t recommend this, I’m sure its an awesome way to get an infection, but I’m not terribly patient.

4. A variety of different things will exit your vagine. For starters, no discharge (yup, gross word) is ever the same between different stages of pregnancy. Its like your vagina turns into an advent calendar with 280 holes, all with their own surprise. Its pretty weird.

Next… after all of the aforementioned discharge (why does she keep using that word? Blegh!), a person comes out…. of your vagina… a person. A small person, but a person. Think about that for a second.

5. You turn into a human easy bake oven. I wanted to cuddle my fiancé SOOOOO much during both pregnancies, but he wasn’t having it! Apparently, you feel like you’re “9,000 degrees” to the touch when you’re pregnant. This is normal, but getting used to no one wanting to make more than four seconds of physical contact with you can be a total bummer… especially when you’re more vulnerable than you would otherwise be.