Oh, yes, I forgot - pregnancy

[ailbhe]

I keep thinking my clothes are too small and too tight, and then I realise that they're actually stretchy and slightly baggy, but my SKIN is too small, and my ribcage is too tight, because it's all full of BABY. Who never, ever sleeps, by the way. And occasionally does starjumps.

23 weeks now. 14 to 19 weeks to go depending. Still, I'll get to go up a bra band size soon, and that always helps.

For the first time, Rob and I can definitely see stretchmarks on my abdomen. We couldn't make them out six years ago, nor four years ago, but this time, there they are. Either we know what they look like better now, or I just never had them before.

The children currently let me take the last of any foodstuff - and an extra of any treat I'm sharing with them - if I say it's "for the baby." I assume they'll get over that soon enough though. Must eat as much as possible before they do.

Comments

[elisem.livejournal.com]

I am thinking of you and sending good wishes, and I am grinning a happy grin for all of you, just reading this.

[myfirstkitchen.livejournal.com]

Well over half way. Cor.

[ailbhe]

I think of 26 weeks as the "strong chance of survival" stage so that's when I relax a bit. And more at 30 weeks. And again at 35. And from 37 I'd be happy to go into labour!

[nonhae.livejournal.com]

Some of my tutors seem utterly convinced that stretchmarks are things that only happen to pregnant women. "And you can tell she was pregnant before because of the stretchmarks!" Er, or, ya know, she was fat like me?

[ailbhe]

I honestly had no idea what to look for, first time around. Stretchmarks just weren't something I would have recognised on someone else's body, let alone my own. Perfectly even skin would have weirded me out, but marks and mottling just seem... normal.

[ailbhe]

Wait, what, TUTORS? Yikes.

[ailbhe]

Aw, thanks!

[ailbhe]

Starjumps are very very pointy. And sudden. Unless it's breakdancing?

[moustachios.livejournal.com]

Dude. Some of us don't even have to be fat to have stretch marks. They popped up all over my breasts and thighs when I hit puberty.

Tutors in what? Nothing medical, I hope!

[rmc28]

I have several rounds of stretch marks, from fresh pink to faded silver, from different periods of my life where I put on weight quickly. Only one of those was pregnancy.