Subject: That was what jumped to mind, but... really
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Posted on: 2008-10-19 09:50:00 UTC
If I had back pains all the time I'd want hot water treatments just to soothe it - scratch that; I DO want hot water all the time when I have back pains.
Something to keep in mind, I guess.
So far as I know, morning sickness generally ends after the second trimester or earlier, and can be cured with the moderate application of Guinness. Or so my sister found, anyway. I shall be enquiring over the course of the next few months to see if Guinness has a similar curative power in pregnancy number two.
And my vote for a Stu is letting him splat.
In extreme cases it can last throughout the pregnancy, but generally it ceases sometime during the second trimester. Some women don't suffer from it at all.
What I'm getting at, I think, is that 'it can last as long as you need it to last for the sake of the story'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_sickness has useful info :)
As to the second ... Up to you!
This is in the second month; the mission follows right off of Skopos.
You're not likely to really even be showing a bump, and the prospect of a spontaneous miscarriage is still high-ish, so don't let your pregnant Agent fall over or run around too much. She needs to watch her food intake and all her meat needs to be very well cooked. She should be taking folate supplements.
Other than that, she can do almost everything a not-up-the-duff woman can; pregnancy only really seems to slow you down in the third trimester, unless morning sickness is really bad or there are other complications, but that sort of thing isn't too common.
Trust me, I'm NOT a doctor! And this is off-the-top-of-my-head, so I really would check any of my ideas against a medical text, a local doctor, or failing that, Wikipedia...
Almost everything a not-up-the-duff woman can, yes. But no hot baths, and no pate or anything else with liver in. I've a suspicion soft cheese is meant to be off the menu too. Any sort of forgetfulness, clumsiness, grumpiness, insanity etc can all be attributed to the baby. Whether they're anything to do with the pregnancy or not.
will never pull the get out of jail free card on me. But, being the sucker that I am, she will, and she will get whatever she wants. Sometimes it isn:t great being a guy. We get blamed for things that we didn:t do (ok, didn:t MEAN to do), for talking to loud (even if we are only whispering) and just being there sometimes (or not, depening on her mood, you never know!!!!)
Ah, the joys of pregnancy! This just reminded me of a line in the last episode of "Firefly," and sertainly not something that I follow (cause I know that the female is the stronger of the speacies, I couldn:t imagine carring a baby.) "The male is the stronger of the species, but only woman can bring in a life, is that right?" -- bounty hunter.
Leto
*hugs Leto* I envy your future wife. And I agree with you - I feel bad for all you guys who get blamed for things that you are in no way responsible for just because we're all hormonal and need to throw things. Poor you. Feel free to save this comment to post to my future husband for when I'm pregnant, because I'll deserve to have these words shoved down my throat.
I sounded very mushy. Erp. I suppose it's a side-effect of being sick.
Why not?
that any hot water that makes it, er, back up the plumbing, as it were, might boil the sprog, or at least flush it out from the uterine lining.
I suppose also the act of sitting in a hot bath might raise your internal temperature enough to boil the sprog that way too...
... so I checked some reliable source.
I mean, seriously, boil the sprog or flush it out? Water don't reach up that far and if it did cold water baths would be a problem too.
According to babycentre.co.uk (which looked professional enough to not declare urban legend as fact) hot baths can lower your blood presure. Which can lead to less blood going through the placenta. Which means the sprog gets less oxygen and nutrition and that is bad for sprog's development.Sprog's boiling temperature is likely the same as mother's internal organs. If she never before ended up with cooked insides, why would sprog get cooked from a hot bath?
... that'll teach me to hypothesise wildly.
After all, it's plausible that embryos would be much more sensitive to overheating than a fully-grown mother - still, this makes more sense.
If I had back pains all the time I'd want hot water treatments just to soothe it - scratch that; I DO want hot water all the time when I have back pains.
Something to keep in mind, I guess.
... probably waits until you've got a baby-bump, by which time hot water bottles are probably okay :)
You can have warm ones, and they might soothe your back pains. But really hot ones are out. My sister was complaining about such when I was visiting her a few weeks ago, and was having the hottest baths possible while she still could. The fact that she was unknowingly up the duff then and still is now suggests the hot baths won't automatically do away with the sprog.
I'll file that away under "Things I Hope To Someday Need To Know" ;) Cheers.
anything with fungal or microbial leanings is probably a bad idea, so yoghurt, soft cheeses, pate ...
and yes, you can blame LOTS on the pregnancy. It's like a get out of jail free card :P
With pate it's the fact it's made from liver that marks it as off-limits. Too much vitamin A is bad for baby.
Was in the pub with a friend the other day, asked for a couple of vodkas complete with mixers and ice. The pregnant barmaid managed to totally forget whether she'd put vodka in mine, and chucked a couple of extra shots in just to make sure. She blamed it on the being pregnant. I didn't care because it was free vodka.
Can be only a few hours (generally in the morning), but can last pretty much all day. It's highly individual.
Which, again, is a license to do whatever suits your plot :P
This doesn't stop at actual nausea though. We're also speaking headaches, cravings, and the ever popular hormonal shifts. I'd listen to Trojan Horse over me though. I'm speaking from experiences with my mother.