Oh yes, I went there...

As per the titles suggestion, this post is NOT for the faint of heart…nor the squeamish…please turn back now if this is you :)

Today’s topic…near and dear to those who have been pregnant, but rarely talked about openly…the fact of life we call…constipation… I keep it real (if you couldn’t tell from the rest of my posts yet). I have a “say it as it is” policy in life…so if this is one of the facts of pregnancy, we’re gonna talk about it!

This was my big ol’Welcome to the 10th Week of Pregnancy (btw for those of you who don’t know, when you are 9 weeks they say you are “entering the 10th week”)…just like clockwork, it was here…that lovely cramping in the lower abdominal region coupled by the “Are my eyes brown, cause I sure as hell feel FULL?!” And I thought I was doing everything right…

So I doubled my intake of water…which just made me feel permanently glued to the toilet seat (and NOT for the reason I was trying for, heavens…) I tried consuming more leafy greens, but my aversion to most salad dressings wasn’t helping this… My cousin Jen, who is also pregnant and Gluten Free, suggested GF cereal that’s high in fiber…so I went on the hunt… Finally found a hot breakfast cereal that fit the bill… no luck… At this point I’m beginning to wonder if what went in would EVER come out?!! Was it just going to somehow absorb into my body tissue… Was it normal to have this many problems, this many solutions and still no “Houston, we have lift off”?!!

Rather than dwell on the clock and tick off each minute of suffering, I decided to find out exactly what caused this…turns out this was my body’s way of allowing my baby to absorb as much nutrients as possible from every last thing I digested…how sweet!... NOW GET IT OUT!!! The baby has had ENOUGH…okay?! I promise to eat more…holy Toledo…

Anyway, finally Ricky suggested prune juice…yuck…I’ll try anything at this point! And he picked some up…low and behold…being pregnant has changed my taste buds, apparently…

I like prune juice…

Not kidding, it’s delicious…and it’s great mixer with apple juice, grape juice and pomegranate juice as well! What a discovery!

But would it work…umm…next day, sitting at the office, stomach starts rumbling like a hurricane just hit Lansdale…and yes, my friends, I am HAPPY to say, “I ain’t so full of crap as I used to be!” :)