Oopsy

Geez, has it been a month already?

I have all these blog articles rolling around in my head...just feeling too busy to get to it.

But thanks to my friend Anna today asking when I was going to update, I'm going to do a quickie one here.

A few weeks ago, I got an email from the Baby Center with a whole bunch of pregnant belly pictures.  My reactions ranged from "Oh, that's so cute!" to "Oh my GOD!!  Oh PLEASE don't let that happen to me!!!".

Anyway, about a week ago, I got another email from them encouraging me to document my pregnant belly journey by taking a picture each week starting at week 14 or 15.  Week 14 passed...I forgot.  Week 15 is here.

Now, let me start off by saying that I have kind of a weird thing going on (at least I thought it was weird).  A couple of weeks ago I had my first midwife appointment and was wondering what the heck was going on.  I felt like I had "bunk beds".  I expected that my lower belly would start sticking out further and further in time, but what was happening, was that my lower belly was pooching (I'm sure assisted by my already delightful pre-pregnancy "pooch"), but so was my upper stomach...and it was kind of hard - as if there were muscles right below the surface...but round.  So weird.  I knew there was no baby up there (at least based on everything I had read).

She started by telling me that every pregnancy is different and that I shouldn't be comparing myself to others (yeah, yeah, yeah...save it, sister).  But the reason I was having bunk beds was because my as my uterus was growing, whatever other guts are down there are getting pushed up.  My friend Dorothea added that because I'm a shorty, I had a short torso...so there's just not that much room for everything.

Now, I realize the picture posted below doesn't look THAT big, but you must understand that prior to my belly starting to stick out, I thought by boobs were gigantic (sorry to be crude...but it's true).  I felt like I had boobs spilling out all over the place...now I look and they don't look so big...so there is your comparison to baby belly.

Some people aren't even showing at this stage...but me - well I'm showing and I'm showing upper and lower levels!





Oh, I know what I can do to create a better contrast.  Below is my pic around March of this year after doing 60 days of P90X (oh I really shouldn't have looked at that...oh, this is just depressing!! hahahaa)