10 Ways You Could Overcome Your Pregnancy Challenges
Pregnancy is awesome. It gives you many great reasons to celebrate and many occasions to invite people over. There will be several opportunities to raise a toast and unwrap presents. Towards the end of your delivery, you will pat yourself on the back, for the big marathon that you have just run, after all, those anxious months. But guess what, in retrospect, the things you did and how you found your way around them, will surprise you. Nope, we aren’t mentioning cooking, making your bed, cleaning or wading through other chores.
We mean when you bent to pick that darn thing on the floor or collect the recyclables or climbed four floors or even reached for the attic. Think again. Did you risk yourself? Did you not think twice? That you are always conscientiously aware of the baby inside didn’t give you a chance to be carefree at all. But, your gut instinct about things led you, and you did them. And, if you did one of the following, then you should raise a toast to yourself again:
1. You Dared To Travel
When it’s your personal means of transport, you could have chucked in a lot of stuff to avoid a puky menace in your first trimester, which is, of course, the most nauseous period. Mints, disposable bags to catch any pukes, tissues, an air-freshener, a mopping piece among other things. That is if you know that you aren’t naturally a car-sick person, but your pregnancy is making you an expert in the art. Now consider public transportation.
You could neither ask the bus driver to pull over to parking, nor could you hold your gag amidst the onlookers – who ever thought it was delightful, but they were only being courteous by not turning their noses up. So if you still managed to hold it all together and reach your destination without throwing up, great! And you still dared to travel with your football-belly in the third trimester – while maneuvering through the ill-behaved people who nearly squeezed your belly out.
2. You Survived All Those Pregnancy Tests
If you are not one of those ‘touchy’ people, then, at worst, you will feel like you are getting raped. You will want to condemn those medical practitioners reaching out to your nether regions – even if they were entitled to as medical authorities. For those who are not touchy, you will still be disgruntled with those fingers poking through you at every visit. If only they could stop at the ultrasound!
3. You Went Partying And Said No To Alcohol
Whoever thought partying couldn’t be complete with an adult drink. But with pregnancy you became a teetotaler and were surprised that exercising control over alcohol wasn’t that hard. How could the alcoholics not get there then! Maybe they should get pregnant – maybe it will turn out to be the perfect remedy. No rehab necessary; only sheer bliss.
4. You Managed To Reach Your Toes
We aren’t Cleopatras to have a hundred people to groom us. Not even during pregnancy. So in your third trimester, if you did find yourself articulating around the bump all the way to your toes to get a little bit of a shave and a pedicure – even it didn’t turn out perfect – it’s quite an Olympian feat for a pregnant woman!
5. You Wore That Evening Gown After All
Did you choose to slide yourself into that long wished evening gown? OK, you have accepted an invite, but you opted to wear your fairy-tale outfit rather than balloon-like maternity wear. So if you could manage to fit in, though accentuating your bump, you’ve made it. You still carry that fashion statement, preggo!
6. You Stretched Out All The Non-Elastane
You would appreciate this one better once you are a mother and have gotten back into shape – or have lost considerable weight – and suddenly you realize that those clothes that would fit you generally have grown out of proportions. Why wouldn’t they? You wore them just short of tearing them. There is a reason they have maternity wear; you jerk. But we are somehow obsessed with our existing wardrobe, aren’t we?
7. You Walked Past the Perfume Counters At Malls
And you managed not to sneeze! The otherwise aromatic spots at the shopping malls suddenly repel you. The scents don’t stop here. The collective aroma of all those classy bottles will travel until the end of the corridor. You won’t escape until you have walked out of the doors.
9. You Salivate At The Fast Food Posters But Manage Not To Indulge
All for the wellness of the baby in there! How could you think of eating what shouldn’t be processed this time around! No junk for a healthy baby – the only golden rule.
10. You Finally Delivered The Baby
You conquered the fear eventually! Fear of labor is the most disturbing factor in pregnancy. But you made it beautifully. Great way to go, lady! You accomplished the mission.
And with these milestones, you are worth winning laurels. Well done!
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