Being 16 weeks pregnant has actually been good to me. No throwing up, not one headache (at least that I remember, gotta love pregnancy brain!), and feeling good enough to make my husband dinner.
While those are all pretty big things considering how awful I’ve been feeling in previous weeks, I feel that you should know that another milestone in my pregnancy has been reached.
What is it, you ask?
The sneeze and pee (the saying reminds me of the “bend and snap” from Legally Blonde). Let me set the stage for you…
I was sitting on the couch watching sitting when I had to sneeze all of a sudden. Sneezing, as any pregnant women knows, is just a part of the whole pregnancy thing. I have sneezed more in the past 16 weeks than I can honestly remember. Sneezing is just a part of my normal life.
What’s not been a part of my normal life is sneezing combined with letting out a little urine. And really, I can’t say that I like it. Oh, but I did laugh out loud at myself.
So picture it: I’m sitting on the couch, like I said, and I sneeze. Immediately I felt a little pee come out. I said, “No!” out loud because I thought it was my imagination playing a dirty joke on me. I hauled a$$ to the bathroom and saw a little round wet spot on my panties. I laughed.
(I’m thrilled that I can laugh at myself. It’s such a good quality to have. No little bit of urine is going to get this girl down!)
I came back out into the living room and I told Tarzan, “Guess what?” He was being sort of a grump because he was doing some work and he hates when I bother him, but I ignored his bad attitude. I told him that I just reached another milestone in my pregnancy, “I sneezed and peed.”
I got him to smile with that statement. Ha ha.
So I hear that this sneezing and letting out some pee is quite normal. Hmm, I hope that it’s more rare than normal because I could see it becoming embarrassing if I wasn’t at home. I mean, it wasn’t a lot of pee, but honestly, who wants to walk around with any bit of urine in their panties. That stopped when I stopped wearing diapers many, many years ago!
Has this happened to any of y’all? Do you know any pregnant tricks for sneezing, but not peeing?
And, uh, can anything else come out while sneezing, like from another hole or a smell? I just want to be able to prepare myself if I’m in public, I’m just sayin’.
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I just discovered and LOVE this blog! I soooo feel your pain about "snissing." The mere sound of running water makes me have to go...even if I just went! I peed the floor a little filling the coffee pot one morning RIGHT after I just went. 14 weeks. Gotta long, long way to go... I even pee a little when I laugh too hard!!!
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