Three huge milestones have occurred starting my 25th week. The first being I'm noticeably, noticeably pregnant. Frankly, I walk with a hitch in my giddy-up, and I have the Belly. While in San Francisco this past weekend a few friends and I were riding the MUNI between the Mission District and Downtown for a shopping extravaganza! On our way back to the Mission a woman on the overcrowded MUNI tapped me on the shoulder and offered me her seat. Apparently this is what happens when you're pregnant: Special Treatment.
The second stone to land on my plate is the weight gain. I've been slowly gaining weight this whole time, and to be honest I thought I would skate through this pregnancy gaining only the baby. However, I stepped on the scale yesterday and in the past month alone I've gained 5 pounds!! EEK... I blame the holidays.
Now the tears have always flown freely from my emo eyes... but the past few weeks I've been a damned waterfall. Jacob and I were playing around the other night and he started to tickle me, which any other non-pregnancy time would just get me laughing hysterically. Well, this hysterical laughter brought me to a confused emotion of laughing-screaming-crying. I started bawling and laughing at the same time. I just started sobbing, and he had to hold me. Nothing is more strange than sobbing for laughing. The whole thing was surreal. AND then today I received this link from my good friend Kennedy:
BABY MOVIE
...which just really sent me over the edge. The whole thing from their beautiful babies to the music to the belly to the dialog between Ethan and Carol when she's in the hospital and says how nervous she is. It made me think of all the growing that is going on within myself and it made me feel very connected to other humans. Deeply moved... I cried for my baby, for Jacob, for me, and for this beautiful family that we're starting.
Oh, I guess there's another thing that happened recently: my breasts look like a map of San Francisco- they're that veiny.
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Oh me oh my, tears welled up in me too...I just can't say enough how much I love you and Jacob and am so excited for this new awesome person to be born into the world
Hello - Its Carol - the fat girl in the video. :-) I just want to say - I am glad you are blogging this - cause you will look back at this time as a tiny blip. I wish I wrote more with my first, and second. and well my third too. but atleast we have the videos. Oh - along with the map boobs comes a map belly. if you are lucky enough to have elastic genes, where I have stretch marks you will have a map of veins. enjoy this time, cause although you may be pregnant again, each pregnancy with each child is different, not quite the same each time. enjoy.
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