I just found this
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/02/25/pregnant-dads-mothers-day_n_6752172.html?1424886111&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067
I know it's not a new thing, but it really brought back to me how scared I was once when I got in the bath one day when I was alone in the house, and then found I couldn't get back up again!
Yes, with DS my life carried on perfectly as normal, I went to a school science presentation at DD's school the night before I gave birth and her teachers all told me afterwards that they were petrified that I might have the baby at school!
Soutra we are anonymous on here, why not go into personal medical detail? When I wanted to find out about menopausal problems, it was precisely that way of thinking that made it so hard for me to find out whether some of my symptom were normal or not.
And so, when I was given iron and folic acid tablets with DD, I thought I was seriously ill when I saw what effect they had on me! Even the people who gave them to me didn't warn me!
I too was having to hump around hay when pregnant with DD, even though I felt seriously ill. We just got on with it. I have no idea now how I managed it. I remember thinking, how the hell was I ever going to manage to trim the pony's hooves, I couldn't bend down to do up my shoes let alone pick up his feet, but luckily he was in an obliging mood.
I think people forget over the years just how hard it is to be pregnant. The knocks on tables edges that make you feel sick to your core. Constantly misjudging distances, being constantly tired, knowing you are waddling, swollen feet and fingers, wearing the same clothes for months and crying when you still have to put them on at first afterwards, discovering what you can and cannot eat. It was very interesting to have experience of both extremes of pregnancy situations, it has made me far more sympathetic to pregnant women.