I’ve never been the thin type that carries all my pg-weight in the front (basketball-style), but I do carry mostly in the front, so Jay says I don’t automatically “read” pg from behind, and it can be a shocker when I turn around (“Woah!”). Dunno if that’s funny or insulting…[shrug]

I mentioned it in my “pregnancy buddy-group” (there’s a good dozen of us due the first half of May, we’ve been on-line together for months). This is one mom’s reply. Made me laugh.

“I vote funny, not insulting…hey, if someone said you looked pg from behind, now that might be insulting “

One guess for why I grow out (rather than around) is b/c I’m short-waisted. There’s only so far up the little guy can stretch, so after a while “out” is all that’s left.

I do seem to be gaining less in this pg, though… At least, if I’m going to hit the 28 lbs I gain the last two times, I’ll have to gain 15-pounds in the next six weeks. That just sounds uncomfortable . Next time I go to the midwife I’m going to look at the pattern from the other pgs and see if I’m actually “behind” this time. The girls followed each other very closely– I was hardly a pound different (between them) at the same gestation.

I didn’t gain anything in the two weeks up-to my last appt, but the MW said it was probably b/c I was sick, and the baby kept growing anyway. I wonder if that means I was sick enough to lose weight and the baby made up the diff… Weird thought. I’ve never been that sick (that kind of sick?) before.

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Projects for today:
-figuring-out some topic for H.S. Sunday School tomorrow
-finish transforming an essay into a speech for Monday night. (Yesterday’s “The Nightingale” is part of that. It’s about storytelling. Guess I already said that.)