In the meantime, there are pros and cons to being pregnant. Everyone expects me to be super ready to have the baby at this point (35 weeks). In a lot of ways, I am. I really want to meet her and hold her and cuddle her and dress her. However, another part of me is very aware that right now I don't have to worry about her being hungry or hot or overstimulated or understimulated or gassy or poopy...I think I'll enjoy the simplicity that life is offering me right now and enjoy the mothering when the time comes.
Meanwhile...a few observations about pregnancy
1) The hardest thing about flying (in an airplane) is reaching your stuff under the seat in front of you.
2) Engineers in Virginia are much more concerned for a pregnant woman's welfare then engineers in Utah. (In Virginia, I was asked if I had emergency contact info easily available on my phone; in Utah, I was given an Ironman mug and told about someone's wife who ran an Ironman while she was pregnant).
3) People often tell you how great you look in a sort of surprised voice. This might be offensive at other times in my life but right now I'm pretty surprised with them so I just really, really appreciate it.
4) But then, people also aren't afraid to tell you how huge you look. Especially Liberians. They keep telling me I'm huge all over and that my baby is going to be huge. Well, I now have official feedback for them. I'm kind of small - so small that my belly measurements really worried my doctor. She ordered an instant (well, there was a 3 1/2 minute delay) ultrasound at my appointment on Monday. The ultrasound showed a normal sized baby - 30th percentile. "You just carry really well," she said. I'm mostly just happy because I got an ultrasound out of it and my baby doesn't look like a skeleton anymore. Plus a really large belly would look particularly large on a 5'2" woman.
5) If a stranger says something to you, even if the only word you catch is "chickens", they're probably referring to your pregnancy.
6) I've heard people say this before, but it's true. When you're pregnant, pretty much anything that happens to your body is "normal". Your mole grows several millimeters and changes color...normal. Your blood pressure is super low one day and super high the next...normal. You regularly wake up with various appendages still fast asleep...very normal. You grow three heads....
35 Weeks: The left picture I think is indicative of how prepared I feel for motherhood.
Our Christmas Tree - just because I love it :)
Stephen off to rock climb - just because he hasn't been getting nearly enough attention and he's so dang adorable...I mean handsome.
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