the good, bad and pretty ugly

i could start this blog with the wonder and excitement of being pregnant again. which i am, truly.
i thought about it for a few days and came up with good points – bigger boobs, better nails, thicker hair (on your head at least this is great). but yes, it took a few days to come up with these. i was at week 10 and feeling pretty ropey. i even asked a friend and she just fell quiet before we agreed that it was a miracle and left it at that.

so to be honest, the overriding sensations the first 12 weeks of this pregnancy have been pretty hideous. sickness, headaches, tiredness to name a few. then i started chatting with [moaning to] some of my fellow mums and mums-to-be and it turns out there is a whole HOST of things that are pregnancy hideous related that i had wiped clean from my brain.

so here, a none-medically proven but just putting it out there list as experienced by me or friends. bad and ugly.

this list is not exhaustive by any means, so add away...

•    nausea / sickness
•    headaches
•    tiredness
•    mood swings (as one friend put it, enough to make a grown man cry)
•    did i mention tiredness
•    skin tags (i do remember i got one on my chin last time. beautiful)
•    freckles and moles - new and large
•    constipation
•    muscle stretch pain
•    nosebleeds
•    swollen sinus (accompanied by toothache/headache)
•    eyesight deterioration
•    flatulence
•    sore boobs (a light rain feels like daggers)
•    cramp (not just the belly ones)
•    piles
•    varicose veins (even in your fu-fu?! not experienced but it's a rumour one the web)
•    forgetfulness