Second trimester of pregnancy

Well, look at me. “I’m going to post at least two times a week”. Yeah, my baby is one month old and I still haven’t covered a lot of pregnancy subjects. But that’s ok. I’m going to catch up on it, don’t worry.

So, back in July I was talking about my first trimester of pregnancy. Honestly, it was the toughest one for me. I am not very comfortable with vomit (as many other people, I imagine), so two month of constant nausea were very hard on me. If we agree to call the first trimester “the hard one”, then the second should be called “the wonderful one”, because at least for me it truly was.

First of all, morning sickness is over, which means that everything starts to taste amazing. I have never enjoyed food so much. I swear I could taste new flavors in everything, almost as if I truly understood what eating was all about. As a person who loves eating and rewards herself with food I would get pregnant again for that feeling alone. On a side note, I never warmed up to chicken. I dislike it to this day.

Secondly, I have to mention sleeping. I slept like a baby! Apparently, it is very uncommon, so I feel grateful for those months of amazing sleep. I feel like people don’t understand how important a good deep sleep is until they get at least one night without stress and worries after which the whole world seem different. So, only at the age of 20, during my second trimester I realized how much impact sleep has on our mood. If you are as lucky as I was and you got even a few nights of this deep sleep, enjoy the hell out of it. Sleep deprivation is the thing that is going to hurt you the most after your baby is born.

The other very important thing about pregnancy as a whole, but especially about second trimester is hormones. I can’t even describe how awesome it is going to feel with all those endorphins being released in your body. It is going to cloud your judgment about everything. You are going to look at your husband and see him extra handsome, then you are going to look at yourself and see the most beautiful woman in the world. It is nice to feel like this all the time and somebody may say, that they always see the most beautiful person when they look at themselves, but I don’t, so pregnancy was very important for my self-esteem.

Getting big could be considered a bad thing, but I believe that we should enjoy our bodies no matter how big or how small they are. I was always skinny and it made me extremely self-conscious and insecure. As any girl I wanted to be curvy and feminine, therefore when my breasts, butt and belly started to grow I was very happy. I have never felt sexier than then. If you are one of those people who have a couple of extra kilos here and there and is very unhappy with them, please remember that being a bit bigger is not necessarily bad, a lot of people find it very attractive. Also, a lot of people who are considered to have a perfect body in reality actually hate it. It’s because there is no perfect body, every human is different and we should embrace it instead of trying to fit a standard.

Along with those awesome stuff some other not so pleasurable ones happen during the second trimester. As your abdominal muscles stretch, your abs are going to disappear. By that I mean that crunch-like motions will become difficult, but not difficult enough to really bother you, so no worries.

The growth of your belly is going to affect other things too. Your belly button might hurt for a while. You know how pregnant women have those popped-out belly buttons? Well, if you are like me and you find them a bit gross, do not obsess over yours, because if you touch it too much it will start to hurt a little, which is going to freak you out, because everything freaks you out when you are pregnant. So, relax and leave your belly button alone J

Among other uncomfortable things I could mention pain in the hips and getting easily tired, but these two are just starting to show and will bother you only in the next trimester.

Every pregnancy is different, so for someone it could be the most terrible 9 months of their lives, but I really hope that you enjoy this time as much as I did, because pregnancy is beautiful and temporary, and a very interesting experience to have.