The ups and downs... and weird pregnancy sensations

I had a near complete emotional breakdown yesterday. It seems to becoming a weekly occurance, usually on Thursdays... So a warning to my family, you might want to be busy on Thursday! :-P

Poor me!

What started as a simple incident of dropping a bottle of Tobasco on my dish of peeled, hard-boiled eggs and shattering it all over the rest of my breakfast, quickly became a full-on cryfest. Punctuated by me crying in the fetal position on my bed, which is part of the kitchen right now, thanks to our home renovation project. So my kids looked on in wonder as their female role model acted like a toddler for 20 minutes while my wonderful husband cleaned up the broken mess and attempted to reassemble my breakfast.

The day didn't improve much due to some very unpleasant tasks on my to-do list, which included speaking to OB offices about the possibility of coming in to see them as my backup for my planned homebirth and informing various volunteer jobs that I need to cut back on my participation or quit.

As a result I had my first killer run of heartburn for this pregnancy. Yuck. Topped off by the odd and new-but-familiar sensation of my ab muscles being stretched beyond belief. After a good night sleep, I think that the baby and/or my uterus must have been growth spurting yesterday causing my hormones to reel out of control and my belly to feel like it was being filled beyond capacity. Or that is what I am choosing to believe... because I couldn't possibly be responsible for crying like a two year old, right?

Here is to a better weekend for all of my pregnant and non-pregnant friends.