pregnancy tea and me

My midwife has talked about her recipe and love of pregnancy tea, since the first time i met her...

Turns out, there is a good reason for that!! Raspberry leaf tea has changed my pregnancy, for the better of course

I am 25 weeks pregnant and i look so skinny still!!! Even dear husband has made earnest mention of it.

The golden rule in my house is, whilst pregnant don't talk about my weight!! If you say i am looking swollen i might hurt you, if you say i am looking good, i will hurt you (lying is a sin, so don't do it) if you try to drop hints about how skinny i was BEFORE or say silly/stupid things when i am complaining like, "but you are eating for two" or "there is a baby in you belly" then those will be your last words.

But yesterday hubs said, " i hope baby is growing okay, because this is the best you have ever looked in pregnancy"

As off putting as that was (you know, cause baby may actually be not growing) i was somewhat flattered... then i was a little offended because i know how much bigger i get when i am baking a baby.

I have mentioned how much this tea makes me go (go as in... to the bathroom... to pee) it like a diuretic without the uncomfortable diarrhea part. Literally i drink one (rather large)mug of it then about an hour later i am peeing like a horse... i do not hydrate the way i should and yet so much liquid is leaving my body!!!

I am not swollen i feel like i can squat without fear of my calves bursting, i can keep up with my kids, my belly even seems tighter, less belly more baby if you get my meaning.

but the BIGGEST difference is my FACE. My face swells get fat retains water catches rogue calories, what ever you want to say, the moment i stop throwing up from morning sickness my face balloons to huge proportions... it had already started to this pregnancy, and now i seem to look skinnier again, after a few weeks of tea every morning!!!

I may be talking it up to much, but when husband goes out of his way to break my golden rule, and maybe even offend me, and also worsen my baby worrying, then i know he sees a difference.

and that is that