Me: Do I look pregnant yet, or still just fat?
Jake: (sighing in full exasperation mode) Babe… you look pregnant to me.
Me: Yeah, but you know I’m pregnant. If you were a random person on the street would you think I was pregnant, or just fat?
Jake: Oh yeah you’re right… random people on the street will just think you’re fat.
… and herein lies the one disadvantage to being 5’11” and not “showing” as much as your vertically-challenged preggo friends. They look cute and while maybe a little round, they’re round with a purpose… they’re having a baby! How cute! You (ahem… I) on the other hand, am more or less rectangular from the neck down. Nothing cute about that.
For the first time in my life I’m buying (maternity) smalls… and they’re too big! A woman at “Pea in the Pod” asked me the other day if I realized I’d wandered into a maternity store! And I can still have a sip of Jake’s beer in public and not illicit stares and glares from the general public. This should be a fun time of secret preggo-status, but it’s tough to enjoy your first ever smaller-than-average status, when you know stranger perception is that you are the exact opposite.
So to answer the “are you showing yet?” question that all of you have been asking, the answer is… ummmm, kinda. If you know me, yes. If you don’t know me, not really. If you knew me my senior year of college… well, I’ll look pretty much the same to you. But this time all that late-night pizza and beer has been replaced by an actual human being! Now that’s something to show (off) about. 🙂
