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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\nI am tired and I am hungry. It feels like there’s no limit to how much I could sleep. There are, of course, clear limits to how much I can actually sleep, since I do need to work and take care of the household. Interestingly the tiredness really only hits me when I slow down. As long as I am moving, kept busy, I don’t feel it too much. Then I finish eating dinner and just sit for 5 minutes, and I can barely keep awake.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe pregnancy is clearly messing with my blood sugar and digestion. I have to eat every three hours or so, but often when I feel that I absolutely must eat something RIGHT NOW, when I go to the kitchen to actually get food, the only thing I want is a yoghurt or perhaps an apple. The thought of actually eating real food is almost revolting. So the signal of hunger arises from low blood sugar, not from lack of energy.\n<\/p>\n
\nMy blood pressure also seems to be swinging wildly, and standing still for long stretches of time is not good. Several mornings now, while standing on the train – only 11 minutes – I’ve been close to fainting due to low blood pressure. It’s the worst combination: standing still, and being slightly too hot because we’re effectively indoors but with outdoor clothes.\n<\/p>\n
\nMy least favourite pregnancy complaint thus far: gassy stomach. Very uncomfortable, sometimes really painfully so. I fart like a champion. Because of this I find it hard to fit into my clothes at times, even though I haven’t gained much weight yet, so I feel a lot more pregnant than I really am.\n<\/p>\n
\nSpeaking of which… Whenever I think of the English word (farting) I cannot help but remember a business trip, back in 2004 or so. This was while I was living and working in London. There were four of us, visiting a few companies in Stockholm over two days: myself, a colleague, my boss, and my boss’s boss. As our taxi left the airport, one of the others spotted a sign for “Utfart”, meaning Exit<\/i> in Swedish. And they found it hilarious. So hilarious that for the next two, they would shout “utfart!” to each other about once every half hour. It got old after about 3 repetitions, but not for them. Educated intelligent adults, with jobs entailing significant responsibility over much money – and with a sense of humour at the level of an 8-year-old. And they’ve forever ruined the word utfart<\/i> for me.\n<\/p>\n
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