"female troubles" can get off my lawn
May. 25th, 2017 12:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mamajoanYou know what I super love, is this new thing where I get menstrual cramps after my period is over. And when I say new, it has been about a year or so now; and when I say super love, you know I don't really mean super love, right?
I feel like I had a few years of basically no cramps at all, after Ruthie was born and after my cycles got back to normal/regular again; and that, of course, was nice. Especially since cramps had been a thing for me my whole adult life. But it had always been a before thing; the cramps were one of the first signs that my period was coming, which I think is normal for a lot of women; whereas now it's this thing where the cramps show up a day or two after the bleeding has stopped. Which is just weird and annoying and makes no sense.
I suppose I shouldn't complain too much. I've also gone from three days of heavy bleeding to generally one day of heavy, with a day or two of spotting on either side. That's an improvement.
I'm not saying I look forward to menopause or anything, but the whole menstruation thing really is such a pain, isn't it? - literally AND figuratively. I feel a little guilty every time I talk to Ruthie about it. Like I should be apologizing to her in advance.
I feel like I had a few years of basically no cramps at all, after Ruthie was born and after my cycles got back to normal/regular again; and that, of course, was nice. Especially since cramps had been a thing for me my whole adult life. But it had always been a before thing; the cramps were one of the first signs that my period was coming, which I think is normal for a lot of women; whereas now it's this thing where the cramps show up a day or two after the bleeding has stopped. Which is just weird and annoying and makes no sense.
I suppose I shouldn't complain too much. I've also gone from three days of heavy bleeding to generally one day of heavy, with a day or two of spotting on either side. That's an improvement.
I'm not saying I look forward to menopause or anything, but the whole menstruation thing really is such a pain, isn't it? - literally AND figuratively. I feel a little guilty every time I talk to Ruthie about it. Like I should be apologizing to her in advance.
