When I found out I was pregnant, I mentally prepared myself for morning sickness, uncontrollable weight gain, hormone-induced-craziness, enhanced sense of smell, weird and uncontrollable cravings, unfortunate food aversions, swelling and all of the other usual suspects. With the possible exception of craziness (it's not really fair for me to be the objective judge on that one, but I maintain that I'm normal), I have experienced none of these. I will concede that I was more tired than usual, but I'm not even entirely convinced that this was due to pregnancy rather than taking final exams and being a summer associate.
I do however, get all of the weird ("a few women may experience") symptoms. I am apparently one of the few who's sex drive went down instead of up, who's skin became more prone to breakouts, and now this...
I woke up yesterday with the first bloody nose of my life. Back in June, I thought I was getting a sinus infection, and upon googling it, I figured out that it must be Pregnancy Rhinitis. But that went away pretty quickly. This came out of nowhere too. Upon googling "nosebleed pregnancy" I realized I have another apparently common side effect of pregnancy... nosebleeds?! Who would have thought?
Granted, these two things are probably related... but really, how can these be that common if I've never heard of it before?! No wonder pregnant women are always so paranoid!
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I remember getting bloody noses too and thinking "What is this?!" It took me totally off guard- I hadn't read about it anywhere!
My sex drive plummeted sometime in my first few months and stayed that way until Landon was born. I read that actually quite a few women feel that way, it's just talked about less and way less fun to portray in movies and TV shows. It sounds silly compared to what some women go through but it is the biggest reason I'm dreading being pregnant again. The good news is it came back almost immediately and things have been just as good or better since before getting pregnant in the first place
Thank goodness for the sex drive "problem" during pregnancy! I've been single since the beginning and was thrilled not to have to deal with my own over-active sex hormones while I was swelled up like a whale. The good news for me, but probably bad news for you, is that as long as I'm breastfeeding the drive stays away. Yea!
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