PREGNANCY AND EYELASHES...memoirs of a pregnant woman!

"Did you read what should be in that window?!"
- "Yes! Two dashes."
"And? How many are there?"
- "Cat... you're pregnant!" 🤗😍🤩

A wave of emotions is here... fear, happiness, shock, disbelief... - "At first!?" He says...
"Yes, you told me I was old and that it wouldn't work right away!" 😖 pfff, I'm in the prime of my youth! 🤣

Then comes the sentence "What now!?"
Ok, we bought an apartment, we have to move in by 3 months no matter what, and there's just no door on the building... "We'll be a cat!" .... I'm still hearing that today, and Rita is coming in 2 months 😏

Luckily it was Sunday, so he could be under question marks all day... and then the biggest question marks of all...
EYELASHES!
SALON!
CLIENT!
*ABOT!
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WHY DON'T I WORK IN THE CIVIL SERVICE!?
DADDY SPOKE TO ME NICELY!
COME ON! DADDY! WHAT THE HELL!? .....Google! "How do I tell my dad I'm pregnant?" (I can write about this for, say, Teen, Ok!, Bravo.. does that still exist?!) 🤔

And nothing, I'll work until the end - I can do it!
The deadline is the beginning of March, I'm working until March 1st... everything will be okay, of course, because I don't have time for it to be not okay... I give birth, take a month off and be with the baby (I'm losing weight! Because I'll probably be a tank!), and on April 1st I'm going back to the salon. Until then, I'm not taking on new clients, only the ones I have, so as not to pile on work, it'll be hard for me to tell everyone that I'll be gone for a month... because even when I take a week off, drama ensues! You all know that line... "What do you mean you're gone for a week? And my eyelashes?!" 🙄

And so the first working days begin, and I'm pregnant... everyone notices that I'm different... some clients have even guessed that I'm pregnant even though I haven't told anyone yet - I thought okkkk, this woman was a witch in her past life, fuck him! 🤪
After we publicly announced it to everyone (my dad took it great 🤗) in the salon, the lashes were no longer important, but the baby... neither hygiene nor retention, nor length nor width - just the baby...
"Do you know what it is?" - I don't know your heart, I just had a checkup!
"Until when do you plan to work?" - until the end!
"You won't be able to do it" - Pregnancy is a condition, not a disease!
"Your stomach will stick to the table!" - don't worry sister, I won't be able to make it because of work, so just relax!
"You can't sit for that long!" - and I'm not exactly the type to lie down all day!
"Are you throwing up?" - what exactly? I neither drink nor eat!
"Are you sleepy?" - yes! But your eyelashes are more than that!
"Did it come to life?" - wtf! The heart starts beating first and I know that's a sentence that a lot of you use but it really sounds ugly and stop it!
"Where will you give birth? - in Petrova! (Well, that answer caused the most discussions and arguments, you wouldn't believe it... everyone has their own theory about which hospital is better, and WHERE IS IT BETTER FOR ME TO GIVE BIRTH! They know better than me - of course, because her sister's friend's acquaintance works at Merkur, so she'll call her to tell her that I'm going to give birth there...) Don't ruin my life, you! 🙄🙄🙄
"How much weight have you gained? - a little, because like I said, I don't have time to eat...
"You have to breastfeed! It's the healthiest thing for your baby!" - I didn't breastfeed and look at me, 190cm and a suitcase full of kilos, I don't remember what happened when it happened 😏
"Hey, can I make an appointment tomorrow?! And you know what, you really should cut back on your work now, you're pregnant! What did you say, can I come tomorrow then?" - come on, I haven't left the salon for 4 days, I don't have to do it tomorrow either...

And so... hormones are a strange thing, I've realized that now... what I used to be able to keep quiet about and just nod my head, now I can't... I've gotten into a lot of arguments in these 7 months... they didn't hold it against me, they mostly told me they'd attribute it to my hormones... 🤷‍♀️ I didn't cut back on my work, in fact... I feel like I worked more... I've heard all sorts of stories, from them not understanding why I'm pushing myself, to how I can't do it... Well, I'd also like to lie at home and drink coffee all day. I'd go shopping, pretend it was hard for me... What do pregnant women do anyway... If there were days when I had a hard time - it was... But what now.. In the morning it's a new day. It wasn't as hard physically as it was mentally... an average of 6 clients a day, with different conditions and personal disorders... but I didn't want to just let go of everything I've built in these 3 years.. I'm successful at what I do, I started it all myself (against my uncle's wishes 🙄), and I can't afford to be gone for a year, that's too long a period...

Now, since January 1st, I've started "solving" some clients, mostly the ones that drain my energy the most, I tell them that I'm not working anymore and that I'll get back to them when I get back to work. I'm still taking on the others (I'm just looking at my calendar, I have appointments until February 15th, and I recently said that January 31st is the last day) because they get me with their "what am I going to do now that you're gone" thing... Right now, as I'm writing this, I'm getting a message from a client "Do I have anything free before January 18th?" ...so what date is today? What will happen in 4 days? I don't get it... 😣😣 Do you remember my recent question about a pregnant woman who had broken capillaries in her eyes during childbirth, so she asked me to see her tomorrow because she looks really ugly without her eyelashes.... I didn't see her out of turn, tomorrow is her appointment that she had written before the new year,, today she told me that everything has gone back to normal and that she can't wait for tomorrow - I can't wait for #majkemi too 🤞🙄
And not to mention that the phrase "How much longer?" is already getting on my nerves, the debate over whether I've gained weight or not, one person saying I'm huge as if there were two of them inside me, and the other saying I need to eat more because I'm too thin - believe me, it's frustrating! Okay, make up your mind... 😖

After all this, I can conclude once again, pregnancy is a condition, not a disease.. and if you set yourself up from the start that you can do it, then you will be able to... Let's put aside all the outbursts from clients I've had and all the arguments and everything else, this is a job that I chose myself and that I love to do... When I was thinking about what I'd do in those few days when I'd be free, my first thought was "Oh my, I'll be able to record a video where I test Kallos eyelashes!" 😏 Of course, while Rita is sleeping, because she'll be a super baby who will only eat and sleep 😂 I even told Martina to save me a place in the competition in at least 3 categories... 🤷‍♀️ I have 2 grandmothers, a sister-in-law, 2 adult nieces, a great husband... so by heavens, I CAN DO IT! 💪

Ps. We really need to move into a new apartment by the deadline! For now, we have tiles, a mattress, a carpet for the children's room and kitchen appliances.... and my schedule is full until February 15th! Plus, my husband is a private entrepreneur! We can do it! ❤ 👨‍👩‍👧

Romana Juric