18weeks: Back to work and the 2nd Trimester Symptoms

Finally back to work and feeling a little more useful.  Time also passes a little faster with many chirpy colleagues around me.

In case you are wondering if the symptoms are gone, well...yes and no.  Nausea comes once in a blue-er moon but it does hit you suddenly without any warning.  Appetite is still at 50% but much better than 1st trimester.  You do get sudden light-headedness when you are standing up because of low blood pressure.  And there are the sudden pangs of pains at the lower abdominal area that totally freaks you out.  Sometimes it hits you just above the joints of the legs.  Sometimes it feels like stitches at the side of your lower body.  The scariest moment is when you feel it below the button belly cos that is where beanie is.  But all doctors will assure that it is fine as long as there is no bleeding.  Oh, and there is always that dreaded backache and achy bones that always crept up to you once every 2-3 days.  Thankfully, I was able to recover after a warm glass of taiwanese mother ginger, red date and longan.

I think it is habitual but I am still walking at tortoise speed.  The upper tummy also feels much harder these days, possibly cos the uterus is moving up coupled with constipation that is causing a lot of gas build-up in the body.  And I am starting to feel that there is something below, like a certain tightness or heaviness from beanie, the waterbag and the placenta.  I guess these are all new and foreign to me so trying my best to enjoy every part of it.