Pregnancy Part II or A Really Long Time To Go Without Red Wine
I am 28 weeks into my second pregnancy. I am irritable and emotional and highly sensitive and forgetful and klutzy and tired and I would like a bottle of bold red wine, please. The first time around had its charm because it was new! Exciting! Look what my body can do! This time around just feels long...and I haven't even hit the hard part yet. I have broken a lot of things recently, due to my general clumsiness and lack of spatial awareness: our glass coffee table, a teapot, a glass, some salad tongs, and the coffee pot - before I had made coffee that morning. There were tears. It is very frustrating not to be able to trust yourself to keep things unbroken. Almost as frustrating as it is to try to explain why you're crying when you just are. Just because. Hormones. Whatever. It makes sense that pregnancy number two would be harder. As a friend of mine said, "Your body had 33 years to prepare for the first pregn...