December 24, 2010
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25 weeks
I’m trying to be better about taking pics this pregnancy! This is my 25 week picture. Not really a ‘cute’ baby belly yet…just looks like I’m getting fat! Because of traveling, visiting with family and staying up late (and forgetting to take my anti-nauseau pills!) I actually have lost weight over the past two weeks of Christmas. This brings my total weight gain to 8 pounds. (a little behind the national average of 16-22 pounds!) I think most of the weight I’ve gained has gone to my top half… an embarrassing and annoying reality of pregnancy for me. I once read Maria Von Trapp’s autobiography (of the Sound of Music). Apparently pregnancy was a somewhat shameful condition in which women didn’t really go out in public. So she had a set of three things made that would make her chest look progressively bigger. She would wear number one in her first trimester, number two in her second and so forth. In this manner, her chest would look the same size as the belly and nobody would guess she was with child. (!!) I guess that explains a lot about why nobody seems to realize I’m pregnant…my top half is keeping pace with my middle and I just look really huge all over. I went up 7 cup sizes in my first pregnancy and was mortified by the changes my body went through. But I guess my body feels the need to do that in every pregnancy! Hoping for a cute baby belly soon…I’d really prefer people to know I’m pregnant, not just think I’m fat, like Maria Von Trapp was hoping.
