Has anyone ever been pregnant before? What does it feel like?

Question

I’ve always wondered what it feels like to be pregnant.. will I be able to smell everything? Can I feel my body stretching and growing? How does it feel when your baby moves? Will I have a glow? Will I crave weird things at night?

Answer

At first I was in disbelief and whenever anyone found out I was pregnant they’d tell me horror stories or ask more questions than I wanted to answer. I found myself turning more inward and just focusing on myself and baby. We did not find out the gender so I could only use nicknames for the baby while pregnant. I’d sit there and mentally talk to baby and tell them about everything. I’d read aloud all the time. I felt myself growing more and more attached but at the same time it still didn’t feel real. Then the kicks started. The first time I felt it was during music and movement in my classroom. The music was bopping and all of a sudden I felt this flurry of butterfly wings under my belly button. I tried to dismiss it as gas but then it kept happening whenever music was playing. They started getting stronger and stronger. Eventually you could feel them from the outside. I was still comfortable and feeling like myself. I wouldn’t say I had a glow, but I definitely had sweat 😂 summer babies will do that. I cried over the silliest things ie donuts not tasting as good as I expected, hubby messing up the bed after I made it, someone eating the food I was craving...the list goes on. I’d laugh hysterically while sobbing because mentally I knew it was SO ridiculous to be crying but I couldn’t help it. I kept working and feeling good for a couple more months. Around 32 weeks I started dilating and effacing. It felt like period cramps. My doctor got worried because of how physical my job was and I couldn’t go part time. She wrote me out on disability at 34 weeks. I spent the next 6 weeks and a day preparing. My stomach would itch and my skin felt tight. I tried lotions and oils-not a lot of relief. I wouldn’t say that I could smell any better because I started off with an insanely good sniffer. I could NOT drive behind a school bus though-way too bad of a smell. My bras got tight around the rib cage cuz baby ends up expanding your rib cage. The Braxton hicks did get strong, but totally manageable. It was like a bad stomach ache that would come and go pretty quickly. My hips started hurting around 38 weeks. Little one was kicking one stop on my stomach so much that it went numb and didn’t get feeling back into 2m pp 😂. None of the negatives even held a light to the amount of excitement I felt. I was gifted the experience of an itchy stomach, Braxton Hicks, lots of kicks and needing new bras. It took 3 years to get there and that may have been why I loved every little bit of it. I would pat my tummy and listen to 90’s Rock (my taste in music changed more than my taste in food) a lot and when LO was born the patting and same playlist instantly calmed him down. Ultrasounds were always amazing. Like. WOW. Technology is mind blowing. I was watching a live feed of what my baby was doing on the inside. I never cried during ultrasounds. Afterwards I’d just stare at the photos and talk to the baby about how much I already loved every single piece of them. The best way I can describe the way your heart longs for the love of the baby that you’re still carrying is the moment you first said I love you to your partner and meant it. The comfort, peace and overwhelming emotion all at once. Delivery was amazing. I had no idea my body or baby could withstand that kind of change. My husband announced the baby we’d loved long before conception was a boy. He cried such happy tears and all I could do was stare and say “hi welcome home son”. My hearts heavy with love just typing this. It is the most surreal, life altering, best thing that’s ever happened to me.

Answer

It's very amazing.

Has anyone ever been pregnant before? What does it feel like?

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