Sorry my dear (8) blog followers for my long and shameful silence. I am turning that around now! Here's the deal....I got pregnant on New Year's Eve and was in bed for the better part of 4 months with horrible baby sickness. Now at 5.5 months preggo and feeling much better I am going to start blogging about my personal experience as well as share information that I have picked up along the way. I am still on the fence as to whether of not I should start an entirely new blog or just funnel it through here and have a daily blog mix. What do you guys think?
I don't want to bore/alienate people who are not interested in getting or being pregnant. But I also want to share my life, nutrition practice, lifestyle views, etc. in order to bolster up and help other women. And as of now, its all part of me.
My goal is to shed some REAL light on this crazy ride of pregnancy and not just be the happy Polly Anna or the negative Nancy. For women that want to have their own baby, pregnancy is generally part of the process. And I have found it alienating when women only discuss how amazing it is and how they felt sexy beyond belief and happy everyday. Cause guess what? I felt fucking sick as hell for 4 months and had days when I really didn't know how I'd push through. But I did. And we as women do and you will too. I had times of fainting spells, crying in public at the airport because I couldn't walk without fear of fainting (cringe), the worst nausea I could ever have imagined, vomiting, acne, severe constipation...and the list goes on. Pregnancy is A LOT of different things all mashed into one strange and new experience. When my friends ask how it's going, the one thing I can honestly say in a short answer is WEIRD. It is fucking weird. My body as I have known it for most of my life is changing on a daily basis. Its like a science experiment. Even starting from week 1 of being pregnant my body began shifting and reshaping itself. My husband and I nightly look at my naked body to see what has changed. Its trippy as hell! And pretty cool. Somedays I am scared and feel out of control, but most days I am excited to see and feel this little girl growing inside of me. It has been a real learning curve for little miss controlling (moi) to not be able to dictate to my body what my mind wants. My dream of juicing and eating raw vegan throughout my pregnancy fell to the wayside at week 5 when the sickness set in. For 4 months I could not look at a fruit of vegetable much less eat one. And this is coming from someone who normally juices 1-2 liters of veggie juice a day. My ego took a second seat and I realized through the ups and downs that pregnancy is a finite time and that to get through it as calmly and safely as possible I would have to ease up and let my body and new baby guide me. Again its about finding my middle path. Why is it so hard?!!! So I am taking it day by day. Feeling out what my body wants and needs, literally on a day to day basis. What I was able to eat yesterday I cannot eat today. It does not define who I am as person. So for all of you pregnant mamas out there, please be kind to yourself. It is an important time to be as healthy as you can be but try not to create more anxiety by judging yourself too harshly. Because afterall it is a 9.5-10 month period which yes is huge. but also is just the beginning.
To Love, Health & the Middle Path!
- Please email me at mcleanmcgown@gmail.com if yu have questions that you'd like answered ;)
xoxxMcLean
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