complaints

Lately it seems like everyone has been asking how I have been feeling and I'm not quite sure how to respond. I think they want to hear a litany of complaints like how all my body parts hurt or how I'm constipated beyond belief (okay maybe no one is expecting that). So far I have just been saying "I'm doing fine". But now I wonder if it seems like I'm too smug when it's being asked by other pregnant ladies who want to compare. My friend W who is due a week after me IMed me about 4 weeks ago asking how my sleep was and I told her it was mostly the cat who kept me up at night. She said she was having terrible sleep lately due to the baby kicking so hard. I probably do have body discomforts but I'm just so busy working and doing other stuff all the time that it's not at the top of my mind frankly. Or maybe I'm just not used to sharing that kind of information so freely.

I did have some terrible lower back pain right when I came back from vacation when I was 20 weeks but I finally realized it was because I overworked my back doing some leg raises in my Dailey Method class. Ouch. Since then, I've been more careful and the backaches have gone away.

Yesterday, I went to a prenatal yoga class that I had never gone to before and at the beginning of class, they had everyone go around and say how far along along and what sort of body complaints they were experiencing. When it came to me, I couldn't think of anything (the other ladies were all a month or more ahead of me) so they had lots of discomforts. But maybe I should have just said something to fit in because I have heard that prenatal yoga classes are good places to befriend other expecting moms but I haven't found that to be the case yet. Everyone else chit chats with each other but not with me! Maybe I look unfriendly and intense. Or maybe the best bedfellows are ones you can complain together with.