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Tasty tidbits

One of our favorite restaurants here has an extensive menu, including several pages of what they call tasty tidbits. Mmm, boy, are they tasty. But I won't tell you the name of the restaurant. Because what I'm about to tell you isn't tasty. Far from, in fact. It's just a tidbit:

When you become pregnant, one of the first messages your hormones may broadcast is, "Hold on! To everything!" Your digestive tract slows down to an excrutiatingly slow (with the emphasis on excrutiating) pace, so that the baby can pull as many nutrients as possible from your food. The outcome? Nothing. And I mean that.

In the early days of my pregnancy we were traveling. It was so early, that I had no clue that I could possibly be pregnant. Sure, I know that I could theoretically be pregnant, but had no expectations of getting pregnant on the first try. That's no try, only do.

Most of my time in Israel, I produced a marble a day, despite my intake of roughage, my extensive walking (oh, the stairs...), and my previous history of my output keeping pace with my input. But I still chalked it up to travel. Silly me, silly conclusion, given that the only other time in my life I've been constipated was when I was living in the Gambia and, for a while, had a horrible diet relying heavily on white bread. But I had no idea that pregnancy could result in constipation.

Sure I was regaled, along with the rest of you, with Heather's stories of consitipation during pregnancy, but she has a history of that. Me? Smooth sailing up until four months ago. No one had ever told me that constipation might be an early indication of pregnancy. So I'm providing you this tidbit as a public service.

Take home message: When there's a "do" there's no doo-doo. (Ha ha, I crack myself up. Which is good, since I know as soon as you realized what this post was about, you stopped reading.)

Posted by Shokufeh at July 8, 2005 03:17 PM