I have been in second trimester lately. Eating great, feeling great, it’s everything I had desperately dreamed of while I was in the throes of first trimester illness. However, I do have ONE issue. I have been having a lot of problems with my sciatic nerve. It’s pinched and it’s causing a persistent sharp pain in my right butt cheek. It also causes numbness and tingling in my legs and feet but that is so minor I don’t notice it much anymore. It’s just that sharp pain that’s driving me crazy. When it gets especially painful I start to feel like Keri Russell’s character in Waitress - “This damn baby is a pain in my ass. Damn baby.” (That’s a fantastic movie by the way, you ought to rent it.) Four months in utero and already giving me grief! What do we have in store with this baby #2? I can only imagine. I suspect he/she will be a bit of a spitfire, based on what it’s put me through so far.

I have employed stretching techniques to help relieve the paint and it does help. I was stretching today after my workout and I must have had a particularly painful look on my face because two women were standing nearby and asked me if I needed help. They had been eyeing me as I stretched, poised to call 911 if necessary.

Ah, the joys of pregnancy.

To quote my sister, who is 7 1/2months pregnant with her third baby: “I don’t remember this much pain.” Amen, sister! How do we so quickly forget? I say it’s God’s little tricky design to keep us procreating. Clever, indeed.