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I have a MC who, since I decided to make her life more difficult, discovers she's pregnant very early on in the story. Since I don't have a lot of experience with this one (personally), I thought I might ask so I don't make any big mistakes.
My MC is in reasonable health and in decent physical shape. I don't want her to end up bedridden, because she's pregnant, but she needs to be able to move around (travel) a lot for a few months. I also don't want her to be Super-Mom who doesn't have to struggle with anything surrounding a pregnancy, i.e. mention it once and then at the end of the book a baby pops out--because that's just as unrealistic.
I'm thinking of starting her off being a couple of months pregnant, and then ending her travels/story at about 7(ish) months...because I think too far past that she won't be terribly willing to endure much of anything beyond not being pregnant anymore. Which should give me about five months or so to play around with (normal human pregnancy times here).
Are there any things that I should especially avoid/consider when writing her? I don't want it to turn into OMG I'm soooo pregnant every other paragraph or so, but I do want to address some of the things she would face (i.e. morning sickness/or not, fatigue, food cravings, etc).
Are some things more typical than others, like morning sickness and food cravings but not being horribly tired all the time? Are some things worse than you'd imagined them to be (from stories you'd heard before being pregnant)? Like, for example, you knew that morning sickness would be something you'd have to deal with but you didn't know that it'd be at 3AM like clockwork...or at 3PM. Were there things that you'd heard about "every pregnant woman deals with this" but wasn't such a big deal for you in particular?
I know not everyone experiences the same kind of thing, but I don't want to just assume that because certain trends are more commonly discussed that that is the end all and be all of pregnancy issues.
Thanks in advance for the help.
My MC is in reasonable health and in decent physical shape. I don't want her to end up bedridden, because she's pregnant, but she needs to be able to move around (travel) a lot for a few months. I also don't want her to be Super-Mom who doesn't have to struggle with anything surrounding a pregnancy, i.e. mention it once and then at the end of the book a baby pops out--because that's just as unrealistic.
I'm thinking of starting her off being a couple of months pregnant, and then ending her travels/story at about 7(ish) months...because I think too far past that she won't be terribly willing to endure much of anything beyond not being pregnant anymore. Which should give me about five months or so to play around with (normal human pregnancy times here).
Are there any things that I should especially avoid/consider when writing her? I don't want it to turn into OMG I'm soooo pregnant every other paragraph or so, but I do want to address some of the things she would face (i.e. morning sickness/or not, fatigue, food cravings, etc).
Are some things more typical than others, like morning sickness and food cravings but not being horribly tired all the time? Are some things worse than you'd imagined them to be (from stories you'd heard before being pregnant)? Like, for example, you knew that morning sickness would be something you'd have to deal with but you didn't know that it'd be at 3AM like clockwork...or at 3PM. Were there things that you'd heard about "every pregnant woman deals with this" but wasn't such a big deal for you in particular?
I know not everyone experiences the same kind of thing, but I don't want to just assume that because certain trends are more commonly discussed that that is the end all and be all of pregnancy issues.
Thanks in advance for the help.