Learn your body -

Learn your body - learn what it feels like, learn what your normal is

This is something that I wasn't taught in grade school. Doubt that it's taught now, but trusting your body is incredibly important in your life. A lot of things and Western society teaches you to not trust your instincts and your body, and I think that fall short of a lot. It's hard to believe that we've been taught to ignore our bodies. They've undergone centuries elf evolution to get us to this point, you'd think that we'd have some inherent abilities tapped into that at if you look at other species and animals. They know when things are wrong or if there's a week in British rule in their herd. Some species isolated them some way them further into the herd. It's poured them. So I always be any different for us. It's humans to know our bodies will enough to build some things, not right. 

I could go on to discuss how my medical system maybe doesn't support us as individuals that well. But that's the separate rant.

I can't be thankfully enough to have had a deep understanding of what my normal pains, aches and body felt like. If I hadn't known that going into pregnancy, I'm not sure that I would have clued into a lot of the things that I went through early on. For starters I felt him kick at about the 10-week. Mark which is pretty early, and it was a magical feeling to know though that there he was. 

I knew it was pregnant about 2 weeks after conceiving. I knew what normal period camps felt like. I knew how like breasts normally felt during my period. So when I was just under a week out of my normal period Starting, I knew I was pregnant because my breasts became extremely sensitive. Which was not normal at all for me. 

I will say we were trying to conceive, so I was hyper aware and looking for any sign. I do think now being through it once, I can recognize the signs if we weren't trying to conceive but I became pregnant.

I was confident when I went in knowing something didn't feel right when I was having round ligament pain. At the time I didn't know what it was, but that's something was certainly different. Hey remember doctors writing it off that it was a big deal, or that it wasn't n't portion of the as people. As I understand it was. But let me tell you it was hard. Hard to walk much less breathe for about a week and a half. 

I was later for that. This would probably come back in my 35th pregnancy. When you was accurate. Thankfully I think Ben threw it once before and New coping mechanisms so it wasn't as bad. I can go into more depth on this in a separate article. 

Another thing in my last week of my third trimester I knew I was going to have them within them next week. It's so hard to say why I do this. I just felt it and my bones and sure enough I'm sure to have the contractions 5 days out from when he was born. A contractions getting into grow in intensity as the days went on and I started to have other symptoms. As funny. I remember people talking about the intense need to nest and I had that I had that feeling that I needed to get everything buttoned up because things are going to change quickly and I was right. It's crazy how your body just knows. 

I remember when I was delivering our baby the nurses would tell me that a contraction was coming and I didn't need them to tell me towards the end. I can just feel when I needed to push and when I needed to stop. 

I read a a lot of books while I was pregnant and one " stuck out to me. I don't even think it was from a book. I think it was from a YouTube video and she said that that you were born to do this. James, Brooke and she has a course called born to birth. I never actually took her course. I just watched a lot of her YouTube videos. And just being around inspirational things like that gave me the confidence that I could do this. That I could deliver our baby and that yes it would be a new experience, and I might have fears about it. But at the end of the day like I could do this. This. My body would help women know what to do. And for the most part it did. I just had a hard time getting out of its way at the end. 

You take one thing away from this know that your body is amazing and is capable of so many things. You simply have to get out of its way.