The Good:
- I have missed being able to touch and see my feet so very much there aren't words. It was funny, about a week after giving birth, I bent down to pick something up. I noticed that I had bent down the old pregnant way - with my legs waaaaay out to the sides so there was room for by belly. Ha! Even though there is still a GIANT belly there, there is not a baby in there so that was unnecessary. So, I stood back up and bent over like a normal person to pick it up. That was GLORIOUS!
- I'm glad the preggo snot is gone. Some call it pregnancy congestion, but I called it preggo snot. The preggo snot was unbelievably annoying. Especially at night. I had one nostril completely plugged up at all times at night so it was tough to sleep. Not to mention that I'd wake myself up snoring. Good times.
- I'm love, love, lovin' the fact that I can once again both lay on my back and sleep on my stomach!!! I'm a stomach sleeper so this is HUGE for me. And never again will I take for granted the ability to simply lay on my back. Although these days, there is a new challenge that comes with that...the ability to get back up. I sort of flail around like a beached whale since I have very little ab muscle strength.
- It is also nice to not have to pee every hour on the hour. When you have to go that much, the simple act of emptying your ever-so-small bladder becomes rather time consuming. I'm using all of that new-found time to write this blog (because my newborn takes up none of that...ya, right). It is also nice not to have to get up every 2 hours at night to pee. Now, I just have to get up every two hours to feed Da Baby. Luckily my hubby takes a shift every night and allows me to sleep so it's not EVERY two hours.
- I have a greater appreciation for my space. And by space, I mean the space in my abdomen for my organs, or "insides" as I called them when I was preggo. They felt so smooshed toward the end they actually hurt. Especially after a long day of sitting at my desk or in a board room in an upright chair. There were many days I considered laying on the floor for a while. It is nice to have pain-free insides - Happy Day!
The Bad:
- Granted my belly is still rather large, but without Da Baby in there I can see the number on the scale once again. I stopped looking when I was about 7 months preggo because my belly was so big that I had to bend over to see the number at the doctor's office. And as the number kept creeping up, up, up and away, I figured that bending so I could see that number was not worth the depression that followed. I can now see those numbers, and it is not pleasant.
- I have already noticed that not as many people are willing to hold the door for me now that I'm not pregnant. Although I think it's very awesome that people are so nice and helpful to pregnant women, I will miss that extra niceness now that I'm not preggo.
- Although I do not (and likely will not) miss being pregnant, I will miss being thoroughly entertained during meetings at work. Da Baby always chose great moments in meetings to be active and move around in my belly. I always found it entertaining to actually see my belly moving as he did.
The Ugly:
- NOTHING FITS. The pregnancy clothes are either too big or fit funny, or let's face it, I simply don't want to wear them anymore because I'm not pregnant. It's a mental thing. And all of my pre-pregnancy clothes are far from fitting. What to wear?!
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