feeling not quite normal

Even though at the moment I can still worry quite effectively that I'm not in fact pregnant and that this is soon to be discovered - when I think about it, I certainly don't feel quite normal. In order that I don't forget this, I thought I'd record these 'not quite normal' feelings.

So, firstly, I still get very tired. This is a demanding sort of tiredness. It sits up and says 'you will go to bed', rather than 'oooh, I bet you fancy an early night.'

Secondly, there's the peeing. Even if I haven't been drinking the regulation 2 litres a day, I still have to get up at least once in the night - which makes me feel a bit like an old lady. Unfortunately, the time I usually have to get up is around 3 or 4am, sometimes making it rather difficult to slip back into sleep easily. So that's when I do a little light worrying, and my pelvic floor exercises.

Thirdly. Nausea. It comes and goes and is there at a very low level for about 50% of the time although it is not usually particularly troublesome. For me it's connected to hunger. Hunger compounds nausea and makes it feel a lot worse than it is, I think. If I eat something (doesn't have to be much - a cracker, an apple) I usually feel instantly better. I do get hungry more often as well.

Fourth, a feeling of tightness or stretchedness below the stomach. (Sometimes also in the stomach - wind is a very unromantic side effect of pregnancy.) When you think about it, you can definitely tell there's something going on in there. This is particularly the case at night when I'm lying on my side. I have taken to hugging a cushion since the husband is too bony for extended use - and this helps.

And this is the extent of my symptoms at the moment. If I didn't know that I was pregnant, I might think that I had an overly long bout of wind and I'd probably be mainlining Deflatine by now.