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**So let me point out every pregnancy is different and unique. However if you're interested in ever writing, with some detail on writing a fairly normal and uneventful pregnancy with minimal issues, have a read.
....Because most of this is coming from experience and I want to vent and try describing what it feels like to better improve accurate writing if your muse in a particular SL is with child.
Things to consider:
1. Typically one cannot feel baby until the start of Month 4. Also, you will bump into everything by 7 - 8 months. Everything. It won't hurt them, they're well protected.
2. Not everyone gets "morning sickness", but if they do it can be in the evening or all day. Sometimes it's so severe they can't stomach water and have to visit the hospital. In my case, zero sickness lol
3. It's like having PMS but the attitude lasts for over a year. However, it's hardly an excuse to be an over the top ass. Side on the dramatic, though. You don't have time or patience with bullshit and you are far more likely to speak up and put idiots in their place. Time is not on your side, after all.
4. First movements feel like a pressure, like you're full of gas or you're having a painless muscle spasm or contraction.
5. Your hips/thighs/legs hate you... Especially if you're older than 25. It's like having chronic fatigue syndrome and on bad days it feels like you got your ass kicked. Literally. Some days especially I can't move and feel 90 years old.
6. Google search isn't your friend, it will make you think you're going to die.
7. There are 40 weeks in an average pregnancy. Babies can survive on the outside with a LOT of help as early as 22 weeks, and they can stay as long as 42 weeks (not recommended x_x)
8. You drink tons of water because your body makes a lot of extra blood to accommodate child. You can also become anemic, so craving meat and cereal and milk would be perfect.
9. People feel compelled to want to touch your bump...... <_<
People get weird around you and in some cases they have their own opinion and try telling you what to do as if they have any say in their name, your parent style, etc. What's also something common to hear is, "You've got to let me babysit." "I want your child" and other things they may or may not be aware how uncomfortable those statements are.
10. The child has a personality before being born. So in a way they can be an NPC before the big day.
11. Lightning Crotch. When they're bigger they can move or kick in a way where they can hit a nerve and it feels like someone kicked you in the groin. So to suddenly freeze and yelp out of nowhere is realistic xD
12. Falling down = instant trip to the hospital. Most of the time you'll be OK but they have to check and scan you to rule out damage to baby or the placenta (the organ connecting them to you) because that could get damaged and if it is, you're looking at emergency delivery.
13. In the later months baby can sit funny and you can't sleep because you can't lay how you want, can't lay on your back, and insomnia can keep you up all night. Benadryl and herbal tea are your friends.
Errrrrh what else...
You can't run but you can still exercise. Heartburn is a bitch.
Can't take most medications
Sometimes people get irritated you aren't as fast or as agile as before. They either forget or simply don't understand how much energy a human pregnancy demands.
If there's anything else I'll add to this later. Delivery descriptions would be pretty graphic xD
Hope this helps for other writers who would like a more realistic approach in their rps. There's more but I think I got the basics.
Happy writing
Content kindly provided by: Eva || Multi
Originally published at: https://www.roleplaylives.net/blog/77345/tips-on-writing-behind-a-pregnant-muse/
....Because most of this is coming from experience and I want to vent and try describing what it feels like to better improve accurate writing if your muse in a particular SL is with child.
Things to consider:
1. Typically one cannot feel baby until the start of Month 4. Also, you will bump into everything by 7 - 8 months. Everything. It won't hurt them, they're well protected.
2. Not everyone gets "morning sickness", but if they do it can be in the evening or all day. Sometimes it's so severe they can't stomach water and have to visit the hospital. In my case, zero sickness lol
3. It's like having PMS but the attitude lasts for over a year. However, it's hardly an excuse to be an over the top ass. Side on the dramatic, though. You don't have time or patience with bullshit and you are far more likely to speak up and put idiots in their place. Time is not on your side, after all.
4. First movements feel like a pressure, like you're full of gas or you're having a painless muscle spasm or contraction.
5. Your hips/thighs/legs hate you... Especially if you're older than 25. It's like having chronic fatigue syndrome and on bad days it feels like you got your ass kicked. Literally. Some days especially I can't move and feel 90 years old.
6. Google search isn't your friend, it will make you think you're going to die.
7. There are 40 weeks in an average pregnancy. Babies can survive on the outside with a LOT of help as early as 22 weeks, and they can stay as long as 42 weeks (not recommended x_x)
8. You drink tons of water because your body makes a lot of extra blood to accommodate child. You can also become anemic, so craving meat and cereal and milk would be perfect.
9. People feel compelled to want to touch your bump...... <_<
People get weird around you and in some cases they have their own opinion and try telling you what to do as if they have any say in their name, your parent style, etc. What's also something common to hear is, "You've got to let me babysit." "I want your child" and other things they may or may not be aware how uncomfortable those statements are.
10. The child has a personality before being born. So in a way they can be an NPC before the big day.
11. Lightning Crotch. When they're bigger they can move or kick in a way where they can hit a nerve and it feels like someone kicked you in the groin. So to suddenly freeze and yelp out of nowhere is realistic xD
12. Falling down = instant trip to the hospital. Most of the time you'll be OK but they have to check and scan you to rule out damage to baby or the placenta (the organ connecting them to you) because that could get damaged and if it is, you're looking at emergency delivery.
13. In the later months baby can sit funny and you can't sleep because you can't lay how you want, can't lay on your back, and insomnia can keep you up all night. Benadryl and herbal tea are your friends.
Errrrrh what else...
You can't run but you can still exercise. Heartburn is a bitch.
Can't take most medications
Sometimes people get irritated you aren't as fast or as agile as before. They either forget or simply don't understand how much energy a human pregnancy demands.
If there's anything else I'll add to this later. Delivery descriptions would be pretty graphic xD
Hope this helps for other writers who would like a more realistic approach in their rps. There's more but I think I got the basics.
Happy writing
Content kindly provided by: Eva || Multi
Originally published at: https://www.roleplaylives.net/blog/77345/tips-on-writing-behind-a-pregnant-muse/