Now that I'm pregnant and everyone in my life knows about it, I've noticed I get asked "how are you feeling?" more than any other question (at least once people know the due date). So my unofficial study of the situation tells me that people really want to know how pregnant women feel. I suppose part of that must be because most people realize pregnancy is fairly gruesome way to spend 40 weeks of your life (not to mention the postpartum stuff) and are strangely and morbidly fascinated by it.

If everyone hadn't already been asking how I'm feeling, I would spare you the gory details. But since so many people seem to want to know, I'm going to assume that you The Internet won't mind hearing about it. At least as long as I don't go on and on about it to excess.

I'm feeling pretty decent. There are the standard pregnancy symptoms everyone hears about. Yes, my stomach is bothering me (thankfully, not too badly). Yes, I am completely and utterly exhausted. The interesting symptoms, though, are the ones you don't hear about that often. Excessive salivation. Constantly. A fountain, a geyser of saliva. My mouth is like Old Faithful. The juices are flowing 100% of the time, but get really excessive when I think about any number of tangy foods: grapefruit, pickles, sour cream. Sour cream is my one big craving right now (*gulp* ... just typing the words "sour cream" kicks my already overzealous salivary glands into super overdrive). I could eat quesadillas with sour cream every day. I actually couldn't sleep last night because, even though I wasn't hungry, I couldn't stop thinking about sour cream and every time, my mouth would instantly fill with saliva.

Of all the many ways my body has changed so far, this has been the oddest and is starting to become one of the most annoying. Also, I'd really like my taste for sugar and coffee back, please. ASAP.