before i go somewhere i think, ‘do i need to go to the bathroom?’ and i wait a moment and i evaluate what i’ve had to drink, when i last went to the bathroom, how i feel now and my conclusion: ‘nope. i’m good.’
not five minutes out the door, my body has produced another drop of urine and stored it away with everybody else and suddenly, my bladder is freaking out. TOO FULL! TOO FULL! YOU HAVE TO GO TO THE BATHROOM! NOW!! so i’m forced to make this mad dash/pregnant potty dance to the nearest bathroom while ava dances around in the little public bathroom stall and attempts to crawl in to the stall next door by putting her little hands on the floor. ugh.
perhaps i’m not “in tune” enough with my body, but this is driving me crazy. i’ve started to go to the bathroom wherever there is a clean one, whether or not i have to go just so my bladder doesn’t have to have a panic attack.
oh pregnancy, what would we do without it? (i maintain that we’d still love our children. it’s not like the only times of pain and suffering can be found in pregnancy and labor. i’ve suffered plenty since having ava)
3 Comments
February 29, 2008 at 5:07 pm
haha, so funny and so true! I distinctly remember a couple weeks after giving birth having to pee and then realizing it wasn’t the urgent- gotta-go-now pregnancy pee. It was so much more relaxing
Oh the joys of pregnancy!
February 29, 2008 at 8:33 pm
There is a reason we say we have to pee like a pregnant woman. I am not looking forward to reliving this symptom of pregnancy. But I am looking forward to it being the last time I have to relive it.
March 6, 2008 at 7:14 pm
hahahaha! I understand this so well. I have a picture of my oldest son, when he was about 2. He wore those overalls called Big Smiths (we lived on a farm). His dad hung him on a nail by the back of the overalls for a second and took a picture. He is giggling in the photo. (So don’t report me for child abuse, please) I will have to see if I can find that someday and email it to you.
Anyway I thought of that picture when you described trying to keep Ava off the floor in a public restroom. It would be nice to hang her on the hook with your purse while you relieve yourself, so you don’t have to worry about the dirty floor. . .
when is your baby due? congrats
~a