Pulling on your boots when your legs are no longer visible because of your belly is still fun. And not the only one.
Many people think that the hardest thing to endure pregnancy is in the summer, in the heat, when you sweat and even a short walk turns into a real hell. It is much easier to walk with a belly in the winter, some argue. And they are seriously wrong.
An American writer and popular blogger, in combination – the mother of two children, Kim Bongiorno decided to debunk all the myths about the “fabulous” winter pregnancy. She herself lives in New Jersey, where winters are quite cold and snowy. “People probably think that during pregnancy I spend the coldest months of the year leafing through catalogs for expectant mothers. And I also take pictures in sugary photo shoots and throw snowballs at my husband, who every time breaks down from work to carry out all my assignments, ”she sighs.
“They do not understand one thing: in addition to the fact that you carry a child in you, you still continue to carry out your usual daily activities. When you have to trudge through the snowdrifts. When, instead of the husband, you need to pick up the children from school, because due to bad weather, classes were once again canceled. When it’s so hard to find a long sweater made of decent material on your stomach that won’t itch anything.
Unconvincing? Then here are 15 things that only those who survived the winter pregnancy will understand.
1. Think you can go through the whole winter in one coat? You are wrong. We’ll have to buy at least two more maternity coats in one season.
2. Prepare that people around will complain about open windows, because “snow is blowing into the room” and their “face is numb from the cold.” But you just wanted to cool off a little. What weaklings!
3. Hiking Mount Everest will be a real walk for you after you learn to get in and out of the car with a huge belly in winter clothes. Especially get out!
4. This is quite possible: you constantly sweat, and your skin is dry and itchy. And sweat under the chest is a real curse that annoys you all year round.
5. From November to the end of March, all shopping centers, restaurants and shops at once turn on their thermostats to the “Bake pregnant” mark.
6. Once I fell and could not get up. Again…
7. How many we have, it turns out, caring people on the streets. They are so indignant when they see you, a pregnant woman, walking along a snowy, icy road. Say, where did you get out in such weather? As if I can just hand out assignments to my subordinates to take the children out of school, buy food, go to your doctor for you.
8. Oh, that puzzled look on people’s faces as they try to figure out if you’re pregnant under all those layers of clothing, or just ate on the cakes. It’s a hell of a lot of fun just watching them, watching people worry, hesitating to ask about their belly.
9. From now on, the best shopping for you is online shopping. When you are lying on the couch with a laptop in your grandmother’s huge panties and a T-shirt.
10. It is excruciatingly painful to stuff your swollen feet, each now the size of a ham stick, into your winter shoes. And even from a whole suckling pig.
11. Hairy legs + inability to bend over to shave them = free, all-natural thermal underwear.
12. The glitter sweaters that look so cool in maternity catalogs actually turn you into a walking Christmas ball.
13. Your doctor wants you to be in the sun every day to avoid seasonal depression. No problem, doc. I am happy to use this as an excuse to escape from the house from the children.
14. Every time someone tells you, “It should be great – never get cold,” one of the angels loses its wings. There is a strong desire to kick off the fun-loving people who say such stupid things.
15. As it turned out, 12 cups of hot cocoa is not what the doctor meant when he said, “Drink more liquid.” What a grouch! “
There is a lot more to add to Kim’s list. And the skill of moving on ice when you carry yourself like a crystal vase full of raw eggs. And the desire is only to sleep, sleep, sleep, and nothing else. Oh yeah, and another cake. But no, you need to go and get tested even at dawn, in the very cold. And it is also so infuriating to have to wrap up before going out! This is annoying at ordinary times, and even at interesting times … And what was the most difficult thing for you?