The Kidney Bean: Weepiness and other weirdness

Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Weepiness and other weirdness

It's like I'm back in the first trimester. Just about anything can make me tear up. Yup, I'm back to crying when the puppies on the news are rescued. I don't know what my problem is. I've never read that this is a common third trimester occurrence, so perhaps I'm just weird.

Speaking of weird, on Sunday night I was suddenly struck with the chills. Even though it was 71 degrees in the house (a temperature I would normally describe as "sweltering"), my teeth were actually chattering. I took a shower to warm up, and soon after I realized that I had a fever, too. No other cold symptoms. Just fever and chills. A couple of hours later, I called the midwife on call, who suggested I take Tylenol. Now here's the weird part. Within a half hour, fever and chills were gone, and they never came back. What the heck? Who gets a fever and chills for only three-and-a-half hours?

1 Comments:

At 2:03 PM, Anonymous said...: Welcome to the land of hormones. I had the weeping disease on and off during my pregnancy and worst of it was toward the end. I broke down in Office Depot one day trying to pick out ink for my printer. I think I scared the poor young sales girl.

Good news! It doesn't stop after the baby comes. It does slowly wear off. I am almost back to normal 3 months later. :-)

Danielle

Two weeks: conception occurred (during the 40 weeks of her pregnancy, a mommy is actually pregnant for only 38 weeks)
Three weeks: our kidney bean (K.B.) was a little ball of cells called a blastocyst
Four weeks: K.B. became an embryo and started making me feel queasy
Five weeks: K.B.'s heart started beating
Six weeks: K.B. started moving
Seven weeks: K.B. started to develop teeth
Eight weeks: K.B. grew to the size of a kidney bean :)
Nine weeks: K.B.'s tail disappeared
Ten weeks: K.B. became a fetus
Eleven weeks: K.B.'s webbed hands and feet separated to form fingers and toes
Twelve weeks: K.B.'s little kidneys started working
Thirteen weeks: K.B.'s unique fingerprints were in place
Fourteen weeks: K.B. and Mommy started the second trimester!
Fifteen weeks: K.B. was able to sense light through his/her fused eyelids and could move away if I shined a flashlight at my stomach
Sixteen weeks: K.B. was about 4 1/2 inches head to bottom and pumped 25 quarts of blood each day
Seventeen weeks: K.B.'s hearing began to develop
Eighteen weeks: K.B. was roughly 5 1/2 inches head to bottom and weighed seven ounces
Nineteen weeks: K.B. sprouted hair on his/her scalp
Twenty weeks: K.B. was 6 1/2 inches from head to bottom and ten inches from head to heel
Twenty-one weeks: K.B.'s eyelids and eyebrows were fully developed
Twenty-two weeks: K.B. developed teeth buds
Twenty-three weeks: K.B. was eleven inches long and weighed more than a pound
Twenty-four weeks: K.B.'s taste buds were developing
Twenty-five weeks: K.B. was about thirteen-and-a-half inches and weighed a pound and a half
Twenty-six weeks: K.B. could hear better all the time as the nerve pathways in its ears continued to develop
Twenty-seven weeks: K.B.'s brain tissues developed further
Twenty-eight weeks: K.B. had eyelashes
Twenty-nine weeks: K.B. weighed 2 1/2 pounds and was 15 inches long
Thirty weeks: K.B. weighed almost three pounds and had 20/400 vision
Thirty-one weeks: K.B. weighed over three pounds and was 16 inches long
Thirty-two weeks: K.B. grew to nearly four pounds and was almost 17 inches long
Thirty-three weeks: K.B.'s bones began to harden
Thirty-four weeks: K.B.'s central nervous system was still maturing, but its lungs were fairly well developed
Thirty-five weeks: K.B.'s kidneys were fully developed and its liver could process some waste products
Thirty-six weeks: K.B. is gaining about an ounce a day now