Wait...no....Wait...Yep, I've got to pee!

When you get ready for pregnancy and beginning the amazing journey of becoming a parent you of course do your research. By research I mean you google "pregnant" and talk to your family to get the low down on what will be surely the most amazing experience of your life. I have found that though limited research gives you warm fuzzies as you picture tiny little toes and a perfect little round bump that you and your loved ones touch and oooo and ahhh over, that it is in fact limited. Let's go over a list of items I have learned about being pregnant that I didn't know before. Headaches and brain mushiness ( technical term): I have learned that as your precious little one grows that it will need more and more of your resources, in this case your nutrient rich blood. The miraculous thing about your body is it actually starts producing more blood about 20% more! So thats good! Except all that blood and then some needs to circulate down to the placenta to nourish the baby. No biggie right? Wrong, no one tells you that you will actually be having less blood traveling to your brain and it will actually affect brain cell production. WHAT? Pregnancy makes you dumber? Ahhhh yes you have just learned mushy brain 101!Write that down before you forget!  The same blood loss culprit can also trigger lack of oxygen to the brain which can cause some nasty headaches. Lovely! Constipation and hemorrhoids? Don't want to go there, me either. How about incontinence? I never thought I would fear sneezing....I literally panic when I feel a sneeze coming on. Because you never know how full your bladder really is, you never truly know what the damage will be! Oh yea, bladder...that's another one! Please read on for my first hand account.

 So, I go to the doctor with myself and the doctor believing I have contracted a UTI ( urinary tract infection, oh yea...thats another one). I go in she asks if I can pee in a cup...I laugh and ask if she can give me a backup cup. I mean hello I'm there cause I have a going problem not a stopping problem? Can I pee...sheesh, silly question. So test comes back negative. Perplexed look on your face? I had one too don't worry. Back in the examining room I met with the doctor and he ( Dr. Herr was out Dr. Gupta is my backup Quarterback....get the reference....no? ok so picture the quarter back.....now I'm the center in the delivery room....still nothing? well go talk to a male then) anyway he said that he was surprised I did not have a UTI but said with his 15 or some odd years of experience that he bet he knew what the culprit was. Relief was around the corner! Katie he knows the problem and is going to fix it so we can stop camping out in the bathroom! Not so fast inner  dialog.  Dr. Gupta starts mushing on my tummy and says," hurt here" I grimace, thats the spot! He grabs the Doppler mic thing-a-ma-bob and places it right on the ouchy spot. "hear that" he asks me? Oh my god I have a tumor on my bladder and it has a heart beat! Or more logically my precious little baby has decided to camp out on top of my bladder. Wonderful. So he says with your round ligament pain (thats another one) and the fact that when you pee the baby compresses your bladder and you quickly will feel the urge of a full bladder again that explains why you are going to the bathroom so often. Ok, so when does it go away? Let's just say the doctor laughed. Apparently unless the baby shifts a little to my right we are bathroom bound for the remainder of our little belly journey together.

On another note. Who is super excited to soon be able to say he or she with knowledge of baby anatomy behind them!?!  Yep, me too. 2 more weeks, hang in there.