I look like a dork but at least I look like a pregnant dork.

[same_sky]

30w5d - Here's a picture taken this morning, as promised. Please ignore the fact that the ribbon that ties is flipped up. The other pictures we took had the ribbon right, but there was flash and you can see my undergarments in a startling fashion, so I won't be posting those.

I have an Easter lily in a champagne glass on my desk, because my husband is the most awesome person I know. He also made me ice cream, and didn't even comment when I requested that he add more butterscotch. Well, he laughed, but there were no words.

My lower belly has gotten significantly worse today, and as of this afternoon, I can barely walk. Yay. I think I have SPD. I'll ask about it next week. I kept trying to get people to agree that it was normal to have a sore belly in pregnancy, and everyone kept saying, "umm.. yeah, I think I was a little sore" or the equivalent. I have a very hard time doing anything that requires me to put my weight on one leg instead of both, such as walking, rolling over in bed, getting in and out of the car, putting on clothes, etc. Everything fits, from the weird back pain I had (that pretty much stopped the day I broke my rib. Not sure what to do with that info) to the clicking noise when I walk to the standing on one leg thing. I would like to stop having weird personal problems now. Because I'm still feeling like I'm having a good pregnancy, but GEEZ can I have a good pregnancy that doesn't HURT so darned much? I don't have time to cover this topic fully. Will revisit at a later date.

Does anyone actually use fresh parsley in every recipe that calls for it? Seems like most of my recipes say that you should add fresh parsley. I have done it before--I used to keep it in the fridge, cleaned and ready, but then I got bored with that. Mostly, I just throw in a few shakes of dried parsley for color (if I even do that) when I think something looks boring without it. I know that it has a flavor, but does anyone actually miss the presence of parsley in a dish? Or even notice that it's there? I can't taste it unless I chew on it separately. Maybe I'm missing the parsley tastebud. My dill tastebud is somewhat impaired, too--I don't think it has much of a taste either, unless perhaps in pickle form, but M assures me that dill is a very strong flavor. I think he's lying. Do you think parsley is an essential part of a recipe, or do people just add it (as I suspect) to be all fancy?

This is an important question that keeps me up much too late at night.

And I am still hungry. I had dinner twice and then ice cream. And I didn't tell the XM radio story. Let me just try something new and skip all the tangents. XM radio? Sucks, and they stole $150 from me, and me hates them. I might elaborate more tomorrow, but if not, remember that the key point is that they are a bunch of jävla skitapor. At the moment, I am so sleepy that I don't know what to do with myself. I am not drunk, I promise. Just tired. Very tired. Is it really just Thursday? Not Friday yet? Gah.

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I've never used parsely in a recipe. Sometimes I'll use basil instead. Not that it is really equivalent. Dill has a very strong taste, so you do have a defective tastebud there.

And you are so so so so so cute! I love your preggers belly!

Pregnancy is painful! That baby puts a lot of pressure on everything. I didn't have a sore belly, but man oh man did my sciatia hurt. Actually, teh more I read about sciatica the more I decided I didn't really have it. I just had an intense burning on my side kind of inside my fat. It was weird. But guess what! I barely remember it now. Ummmmm. . not that it helps you any to know that in a few weeks you'll have other things to think about. Like the back pain from carrying around an infant. Get that car seat out now and start packing a bag of sugar in it. Seriously.

So do you think you will be having a c-section b/c of this rib thing? I can't imagine they'd let you labor with your rib like it is, but hopefully it will be healed, but how will it heal with the baby constantly pushing on it? I was so scared of a c-section but mine turned out great. Forty-five minutes of labor was more than enough for me. I'm not big on that whole "I am woman, hear me roar" thing. Obviously I'm a woman. No penis here. Don't need pain to prove it. My one word of ass-vice is to go ahead and let the baby have some formula even if you are going to breastfeed. Then maybe the baby won't get jaundice if your milk doesn't come in and you won't have to watch your poor baby be put under the lights (though my hospital totally sucked to even have the lights--they make blankets with lights embedded in them) and you'll get to go home earlier.

I'm in rare form tonight. I seriously need some sleep. I just bought my mommy a plane ticket! I'm excited! And sleepy!

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I'm hoping that I won't end up with a rib-based c-section. It's actually feeling quite a lot better, and mainly, I'm only having trouble with it when rolling over and getting out of bed, and twisting too much.. but even those things are not a tenth as bad as they were. It seems (knock on wood) to be on the road to getting better, and so I have hopes that I'll be over it completely by the time I go into labor. The good news is that even though it is not physically possible to carry this child any higher than I am (she kicks me just under my bra line in the middle quite a lot), it doesn't hurt my ribs at all--even when she has kicked directly at the broken one. Not sure how that works but I am profoundly grateful.

I am not that keen on proving my womanhood, either, though the thought of a c-section scares me. I figure that if i have to have one, I have to have one, and it'll be okay. I'm still trying not to think about that part TOO much yet. ;)