My thoughts on the effects of the third trimester

[kiya]

They're "entrails", not "extrails". I wish I didn't have to keep explaining this.

It's not that I'm emotionally unstable. It's that my usual cranky / avoid reactions have escalated to "Kill it and eat its heart that its lifeblood might sustain my offspring" and "drift off to live in a well-concealed and distant cave to fatalistically contemplate the ways human interaction is not worth the effort". And if I can't do either of these, I cry.

I'm the acid queen (pay before you start). The only cure for the heartburn appears to be to sleep more than three hours at a go; unfortunately, the heartburn tends to wake me up every hour and a half or so.

My normal lower back pain has vanished. (I think this is so that I know for sure when I'm having pregnancy-related back pain. Which is really not all that often.)

My seasonal allergies have also vanished. Clearly I must arrange for all pregnancies to be well established in at least one of May and September.

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[tiger-spot.livejournal.com]

my usual cranky / avoid reactions have escalated to "Kill it and eat its heart that its lifeblood might sustain my offspring" and "drift off to live in a well-concealed and distant cave to fatalistically contemplate the ways human interaction is not worth the effort". And if I can't do either of these, I cry.

I have this terrible feeling I'm going to be exactly like that. Which means I think this is a really funny description.

Vanishing allergies is an interesting side effect. I guess that's from the general immune suppression?

[kiya]

I don't know what causes it, but my midwife says it's normal. :}

[sashajwolf.livejournal.com]

I think so. Mine always got better in pregnancy too.

[erispope.livejournal.com]

Not a hundred percent sequitur (I hope), but I'm thinking visit in about two weeks. Basically, from the 11th to the 15th. Yes/no?

[tzeenj.livejournal.com]

Very. Cautious. Hug.

(living with a pregnant woman, for the second time around, at that, I know of the kill-it-and-eat-its-heart-out thing and respect it greatly.)

and, yeah, vanishing allergies are pretty common. Claudia can do caffeine without blinding migraines now, for example. I'm assuming that it involves hormonal shifts of some sort.