Never in my life have I understood peen brain until today. I have always thought it was possible for guys to get an erection to the point of stupidity because blood flow is diverted to other regions of their bodies. Reduced blood flow to the brain = reduced oxygen = stupidity.
Never in my life have I empirically understood this phenomenon until today. Until I ate too many waffles. I ate nutrient dense whole wheat waffles with a touch of maple syrup and some roobois tea. I figured they would be no big deal. I have been keeping my tummy bloat and slow digestion to a minimum with white-flour based foods and keeping things pretty bland. I cannot do white flour waffles though and this may have been my demise.
My gut bloated to maximum and when I started to feel sleepy I knew things were not right. It is only hours later that I can evaluate what happened. In telling my hubby about my slow digestion issues today I had to pause and say, “I understand peen brain.”
As far as symptoms and being in the home stretch of this first trimester the digestion is slow, I burp like a frat boy, I hiccup a lot, facial acne is subsiding, I am a lot more apt to vocalize an opinion, the boobs are still huge, I have not put on any weight yet, I am not pooping at regular intervals but I am pooping, my energy has returned to about 90%, and my libido has returned with a vengeance. My 12 1/2 week exam will be the first with the midwife in just over a week. I am excited for the exam.
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The cartoon I used in this post is from pregnancy.baby-gaga.com this link will take you to week by week cartoons that make light of all 40 weeks of a full-term pregnancy.