The first trimester of pregnancy is well-known for symptoms of fatigue, nausea, increased urination, and breast tenderness. But how do these symptoms really affect women’s day to day lives? I crowdsourced and asked my family and friends to complete the following sentence: “You know you are in your 1st trimester when…” Here are some of the hilarious results.
- You can smell the difference between tap and filtered water.
- An 80s TV commercial made you cry.
- An in-home date with your husband is him watching TV while you sleep on the couch.
- You enjoy a midnight snack of hot dogs and antacids.
- You wake up in the middle of the night because your bladder no longer sleeps.
- Your boobs adopt a no hugging policy.
- You can’t brush your teeth without gagging.
- You repeatedly google “cute pregnancy announcements.”
- You regularly deep clean your toilets because you’re always hugging them.
- You literally get mad at the fact that you have to eat, because all food sounds so gross.
- You smell rotten food before it’s rotten.
- You take a nap after work and don’t wake up until morning.
- You try to make dinner and end up calling your husband to tell him you’re trapped upstairs in your bedroom until he airs the food smells out of the house.
- You keep a hair tie on your wrist at all times in case you have to quickly pull back your hair to vomit.
- Your first priority when entering a building is to locate the bathroom.
- You think your freshly showered and teeth brushed husband stinks.
- You take a nap, make your bed, and have to take another nap from the work of making the bed.
- You took a nap parked in the driveway because the couch was too far.
- You can’t squeeze into the dress you were fitted for less than a week before because your rib cage has already shifted.
- You live off of unsalted rice cakes because even saltines have too much flavor.
- You seriously consider using depends to limit your amount of trips to the bathroom… but then just walk to the bathroom again.
- You find yourself admiring every single newborn you pass in every single store.
- You can’t scroll through all the food posts on Facebook or Instagram without gagging.
- 8:30 begins to sound like a reasonable adult bedtime.
- You already got a positive pregnancy test result, but you bought four other tests that you continue to take a few days apart because you just don’t believe that its true.