Works-For-Me Wednesday: Pregnancy

Everyone has stuff that gets them through pregnancy. Here are mine:

1. Tank tops with bralets - I hate bra shopping. Hate it, hate it, hate it. And shopping for bras when I am huge and my rib cage is expanding so nothing will fit right is even worse. So during pregnancy I buy (for less than the cost of a bra) those tank-tops with a bra sewn in to wear under my clothing. They don’t offer much support, but I buy them a size too small, which helps, and just wear them under my shirts like a bra. No digging into my skin as I expand, no impossible sizing, and since the straps are elastic, they are even easier than nursing bras to use while breastfeeding.

2. Newman’s Own Salsa - Every pregnancy, this is my number one craving. The first pregnancy, I had been longing for salsa for days. I bought a jar of this, brought it home, and hid in a corner where my husband wouldn’t see me. I ate it out of the jar with a spoon. He found me and has been teasing me about it ever since. But my body needed it. It’s yummy, and it’s full of vegetables. Every pregnancy, I pray blessings upon Paul Newman.

3. Sleeping with my iPod - I have a four year old iPod that barely works anymore. When it dies completely I will mourn. It has been great for those restless pregnant nights. I have a bunch of audiobooks on it, and when I have trouble sleeping, I listen till I’m drowsy, and pop the earbuds out when I’m ready to go to sleep. My favorite go-to-sleep-listening book is Robert Lacey’s Great Tales from English History. It is just interesting enough to keep my attention, but familiar enough to let me fall asleep.

4. Four Pillows - Two under my head, one for my legs and one to support my back as I lie on my side. During my second pregnancy, I told myself this was excessive, and I could make do with three. I ditched the one behind my back. I woke up in the middle of the night with such horrible muscle pain in my chest that I thought I was having a heart attack. I actually went to the emergency room. Now I stick with four.

5. Baby NameVoyager - I am obsessive about choosing baby names. It goes well beyond the bounds of reason. For my first two babies, I made up spread sheets recalculating the popularity rankings of the SSA website based on names of the same etymology. Now I just use NameVoyager. The author’s blog is a great read, too.

You can find more WFMW ideas at Rocks in My Dryer.

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