Somnastra
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So, in case you didn't know, my character, Som, is pregnant ( ). Now I have to say that I was quite hesitant about doing this, as it is very easy to do badly. And I'm still quite self-conscious about RPing it as it is, but such is life.
I did a lot of research (still DOING a lot of research) that I want to share, in case someone else wants to use it.
The timeline is basically two and a half months, with the stipulation that each day is about equivalent to a week. You might be doing some maths there and realize that this amounts to over a year! Well, yeah. Som's elfy. This can easily be cut in half for hoomans and such.
(Right now I'm just gonna put the first 23 days, as that seems like a good enough place to stop.)
Symptoms from previous week continue until it states that they stop. Bolded weeks mean that it starts to get really bad.
1 No symptoms
2 No symptoms
3 No symptoms
4 Nausea, Fatigue, Cravings/Aversions
5
6 actually, at this point, I want to talk about how I dealt with morning sickness. I basically rolled a d5 about once an hour while RPing (or if something triggered it, like a food I'd decided would be under "aversion" - in Som's case, meat. ). On a 1, she experienced morning sickness. I usually RPed this as simple nausea, and other times I pulled Som off away from people. Surprisingly few people picked up on this, which was weird.
7
8 Some physical changes, I'm not going to be explicit, but you still can't tell she's pregnant yet.
9
10 Headaches, Dizziness (possible fainting)
11 Fatigue
12
13 For dizziness and fainting, I rolled a d20 when Som was doing something strenuous. In extreme cases, I rolled a d5. Again on a 1, symptoms presented. I think she fainted once.
14
15
16
17 End nausea (whoo!)
18 End fatigue (WHOO!) Appetite starts picking up.
19 End cravings/aversions (Yes, in a normal pregnancy with a healthy mom, those end)
20 Lower abdominal achiness
21
22
23 Interestingly, pregnant women are susceptible to all kinds of things. In my notes I have "nosebleeds?" written down across a few days at about this point, but I decided that would just... increase the drama past a point I really wanted.
I did a lot of research (still DOING a lot of research) that I want to share, in case someone else wants to use it.
The timeline is basically two and a half months, with the stipulation that each day is about equivalent to a week. You might be doing some maths there and realize that this amounts to over a year! Well, yeah. Som's elfy. This can easily be cut in half for hoomans and such.
(Right now I'm just gonna put the first 23 days, as that seems like a good enough place to stop.)
Symptoms from previous week continue until it states that they stop. Bolded weeks mean that it starts to get really bad.
1 No symptoms
2 No symptoms
3 No symptoms
4 Nausea, Fatigue, Cravings/Aversions
5
6 actually, at this point, I want to talk about how I dealt with morning sickness. I basically rolled a d5 about once an hour while RPing (or if something triggered it, like a food I'd decided would be under "aversion" - in Som's case, meat. ). On a 1, she experienced morning sickness. I usually RPed this as simple nausea, and other times I pulled Som off away from people. Surprisingly few people picked up on this, which was weird.
7
8 Some physical changes, I'm not going to be explicit, but you still can't tell she's pregnant yet.
9
10 Headaches, Dizziness (possible fainting)
11 Fatigue
12
13 For dizziness and fainting, I rolled a d20 when Som was doing something strenuous. In extreme cases, I rolled a d5. Again on a 1, symptoms presented. I think she fainted once.
14
15
16
17 End nausea (whoo!)
18 End fatigue (WHOO!) Appetite starts picking up.
19 End cravings/aversions (Yes, in a normal pregnancy with a healthy mom, those end)
20 Lower abdominal achiness
21
22
23 Interestingly, pregnant women are susceptible to all kinds of things. In my notes I have "nosebleeds?" written down across a few days at about this point, but I decided that would just... increase the drama past a point I really wanted.
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