Getting Older, Having Babies

Baby #4 is not being kind to me.  Weeks 8 throught 10 found me barely able to drag my ugly, unshowered self out of bed.  I had to lean on the counter while I stirred dinner, which was usually pasta with sauce out of a jar.  I slept 10 hours a night and took a 2 hour nap in the afternoon.  Seriously!  And the nausea!  I count myself lucky that I have yet to throw up during a pregnancy, but it still sucks that I feel like I just might throw up any second.   And stop reading if you don't want TMI, but I have painful gas almost every night from 7 to 10 pm.  My belly gets all bloated and it hurts.  So weird.  Where the heck did that come from?

So I was lamenting to my mom in law about how baby #1 was a breeze, and even baby #2 was super easy.  Baby #3 was tougher, but nothing like this.  Do you know what she said to me?  "Well, you're body just isn't what it used to be.  That happens as you get older." 

Get older!?!  I've said those same words, but always with a twinkle in my eye and a little smirk.  I'm 28 for pete's sake!  But that really was the nail in the coffin.  Hearing the words "get older" from an outside source really sunk it in.  I am getting older!  And it's hard.  Is there a little icon for a tear running down my face?  :_ _ (   That works.