I was going to post a recent belly shot here today but I have had a massive head cold all week long and didn’t really feel like snapping any photographic evidence of my red, puffy eyes, my raw nostrils, or my defeated disposition. A head cold might not sound like much more than a mild nuisance, but when you’re pregnant and unable to drown your mucous in Nyquil and cold medication, it can be rough going!
All has been going well with the pregnancy. I am a little surprised that some people are just now approaching me and asking if I’m expecting. I am six months along and as big as a tank! Do they think I just put on 30 pounds for the thrill of it?! I know they are simply being polite and were probably silently wondering for the past half-year whether I was just eating too many Peanut Butter m&ms (which I have been, mind you).
Have you ever made the mistake of asking a woman when she’s due, only to find out that she’s not even pregnant? I never have. I have been the victim of such an ill-timed question, however. My last baby was born on a Wednesday and we were at church the following Sunday (not a whole lot of time for my floppy, distended uterus to go back to its normal size) and a woman patted me on the shoulder and said, “Still no baby, huh?” Meanwhile, my baby was asleep in her carseat next to me. Gahkward!
Everyone just feels like disappearing when something like that happens. Do you have your own tale to tell about mistaken pregnancy inquiries?
We were in a cafe in Chemainus one time and saw a guy we kind of knew. He’s been here with his wife a few months ago and she looked pregnant, we thought she was so Andy asks him how his wife and the baby are doing. He looked blankly and said “what baby?” Andy’s like “Oh I thought you guys were having a baby?” “Nope!” AWKWARD!!!!! I was so glad Andy said it not me. The thing is we’ve since seen them a few times and they totally have a kid that looks the right age to have resulted from a pregnancy at that time so I don’t know, maybe he was just playing with us, if he was he’s really good!
I (surprisingly) never had any post-pregnancy comments like that. But I got some comments when I was pregnant that would FLOOR you. They still floor me, actually.
My favorite: when telling someone I was pregnant (early, at 7 weeks WHEN I WAS NOT SHOWING), she said, “Well, I wasn’t going to ask because sometimes fat’s just fat.”