When I first found out I was pregnant , I was already in my fifth calendar week . That first month is pretty chill because you really count from your last flow , so you ’re technically not even fraught for part of it . So I ’m all care , “ Hey , I can do this . I ’m already five weeks pregnant , this is gentle ! ”
In mylast rambling , I talked about how you ’re technically preggers 10 months and we ’re all being lied to – but I stand corrected , because apparently ( so I ’m told ) it ’s only around 9.25 calendar month or something ? It ’s for sure feel like 10 months though ! Anyway , back to five weeks pregnant .
Pre-pregnancy, there was just one symptom
Before I peed on the joystick , the only symptom I had was a bad case of itchy pinhead . Just straight - up inscribe the bullshit out of my breasts at any given time like a goddamn creature . It ’s very hard to get underneath your bra and get in some good scratching while you ’re in public . originative thinking is a must , but sometimes intuitive response overrules and you just do n’t give a piece of tail who see .
I googled it with “ early gestation symptom ” and it at once total up . Here ’s the thing I quickly learned , though . Every woman is different and yet we ’re all a little crazy . So you’re able to literally Google any symptom a human being can have on this earth and follow it up with “ early pregnancy symptom ” and something will come up .
I ’m serious . Go try it . I just tried clogged auricle and dry foot for double-dyed entertainment and they came up . And I literally just made those up off the top of my head .
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After five weeks, fatigue set in
Anyway , it was right at the final stage of that fifth week that I abruptly commence feel well-worn as fuck . I mean just beyond exhausted doing the smallest things . I call up the first time experience it I was in Ikea ( which is usually just the sound ) and dead found myself incline on the cart slowing to a crawl like a robot powering down .
No longer did I want to depend at cunning stroke pillow and merriment dishes , oh no . I was overcome with this dotty desire to lay on one of the couches or bottom in the video display section and have what my nana calls “ a little shluffy ” . So I stopped and sat down on a sectional and stared off enquire if I just nonchalantly put my foot up and gently laid my head on a pillow , how long it would be until a friendly Ikea sales representative come over to ask if I needed help or was fine or if I was some eldritch drifter just looking to “ lay down her head ” for a here and now .
So I put one metrical unit up and did what I consider was a casual lean . But all these families and their children were face at me all judgey . I kind of look like the men who sit outside preen room wait for their lady , staring off , partly dead deep down . Except I was n’t . So I just looked out of position .
“ depend away , unseasoned children , I ’m mature a genuine homo being inside of me ! Just lease me rest on this easy to assemble bed from the SKOGSTA collecting ! ”
I could n’t focus on anything toppingly IKEA - link because it palpate like when you have a cold and you ’re just so weak and lethargic and why meeeee ! Everyone give me understanding , dammit ! After a peppiness talk with myself , I finally get up and rushed through the windowless shop praying for the exit to arrive . I did n’t even buy anything ! Well , I think I quickly turn back and powered through for a pleasant-tasting $ 1 ice cream cone because number on , I ’m not a monster .
search aside , young youngster , I ’m growing a literal man being inside of me !
I found myself at the tip of the (fetus-growing) iceberg
I ran to my gondola and sat there , eating my cone , wonder if this was the beginning of some serious bullshit . It was : just the tip of the foetus - grow iceberg . That ’s when I just started getting tired ALL the metre . And I ’d pick up about it , but you definitely palpate like a waste of place . To the woman who still exercise during this meter – and I mean this with nothing but making love – you could honestly go do it yourselves . So hard . I know that ’s abrasive but hormones , good ?
And also , how are you doing this ? ! I could scarce walk my dog around the blockage without scram so incredibly tired . For fucking saki kegels got me winded . I felt like I was just miss all the energy to do the introductory stuff in my life story . And it ’s really surd to not finger shamed about it and depressed ; but then again , you are building a somebody and I had to constantly keep reminding myself of that and that it was OK to be stock and lazy . Because it can get lonely real nimble . Well , for me it did because I make my own workplace hour for the most part as a writer unless I have meetings or a deadline so I was just home alone a bunch and too exhausted to do anything except watch reruns ofDatelineon OWN . ( By the way , it really is ALWAYS the hubby . Even when they pretend like “ hey it ’s totally not gon na be the hubby ” , it ’s the husband . )
Women are unbelievable creatures
But here I am keep an eye on TV , and then I cerebrate my GOD women with full - time Job , you are living , breathing heroes . Every day , all these first-rate bally exhausted fraught women are out there working their ass off . Plus , they have to hide it on top of the exhaustion because it ’s so early in the pregnancy they ca n’t tell anyone and they have to put on a freakin ' smile and operate so firmly for the humankind . And some are single mothers !
My lord , women are amazing . farm people inside of them and also just doing anything else ! Really just doing anything else besides that at the same time is unhinged impressive , right ? !
OK , I ’m gon na go take a little “ shluffy ” and think about it some more .
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