until you can see the head crowning

So I’ve finally passed the stage where even my friends say “you don’t really look that pregnant”.  I tried not to get too offended by that …but mostly I was thinking “What!? you think I look this fat normally?!”  Most of my friends started to say I looked pregnant even before I did, I think just to calm me down.  The worst was people who I told I was pregnant, and insisted on saying, “No, you don’t look pregnant, just a little chubby.”  They aren’t close friends of mine.

So now it’s mostly “Yes, you do look pregnant,” much to my relief.  I didn’t gain as much weight as the books say, so I sort of lost some I guess.  However, I’m good at hiding my belly since, ok, I admit it, I’m a little but chubby normally — and so I am skilled at hiding my middle.  And I can look NOT pregnant if I want.  But I have a few outfits that just scream “I HAVE A BELLY HERE”. The first day I wore this one shirt that completely emphasizes my belly was to Kramer’s cottage, and every person thought I just popped out.  I call that shirt my “so-you-think-I-don’t-look-pregnant” shirt.

The funniest is people who I don’t know when I’m wearing one of my belly-emphasizing shirts who don’t say anything or act surprised I’m pregnant.  One friend who knew I was married but didn’t know I was pregnant saw me in this shirt, and I said, “Well, I’m pregnant”.  She said she thought so, but she said something to another woman at her church and it turned out the other woman WASN’T pregnant, so she learned her lesson.  My friend Christine says it’s so dangerous to comment on a pregnancy that the woman didn’t tell you about that unless the woman says something, she’ll wait til she sees the head crowning so she knows for absolute sure there’s a baby in there before she’ll say anything at all.

Posted by on June 16th, 2008 under Uncategorized

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