“My wish for this pregnancy, besides a healthy happy baby, is for the paparazzi to LEAVE US ALONE and let me gain my weight in PEACE. #mywish” – Pink
I don’t know, there’s just something about the blatant desire of a human being, experiencing something like pregnancy, and that her wish for her pregnancy be to be left alone to gain weight in peace, that gets to me.
It all gave me a little pause, since I’m lucky enough to do that very thing, and here I was, spending any time imagining that anyone cares except myself. Because they don’t. However, in a celebrity’s world? Oh they do. I hope Pink gets her wish.
In other news, my belly button is reported to pop out “any day now.” In fact, for the past two weeks all of my pregnancy-related newsletters and emails have been mentioning that this should have happened by now. Of course, they’ve woefully underestimated the cavernous depths of my belly button. I was never kidding when I referred to my stomach as “buddha.”
So far? I’m still with innie.
I got really great news recently – passed the glucose tolerance test with flying colors, which means no gestational diabetes for this mama. Whew.
I’m ridiculous busy at work right now. And I fell again yesterday, rushing from meeting to meeting. I’m hoping to power through tomorrow, enjoy a massage on Friday and spend the weekend packing up whatever we’ve got upstairs since the remodel starts Monday. And then? Two glorious days off before the next weekend.
I need sleep. Lots and lots of sleep.
Between you and Derek’s wife, and belly buttons popping out I am trying SO hard not to just make Thanksgiving turkey jokes all day long! I know YOU would get my sense of humor but others in the office might look at me askance…
Can’t wait to meet the little Smith-Shea/Shea-Smith!
I also am of the buddha in the belly region. Sadly, my belly button never popped out. I did enjoy not having to artfully disguise my mid-section those last few months, though!
(I’ve been a reader since the LTB days- love your writing! Many congratulations. Raising a girl is a total blast.)
Yea for Thanksgiving and opportunities to eat and sleep. Happy Friday Eve!
Mine never popped out. It just got flatter and flatter. At least I was able to give it the cleaning of a lifetime.
Hope you get some serious rest in soon.
My belly button flattened out too. I wish I’d taken pictures before I got pregnant because my belly’s the same size it used to be but my belly button, alas, will never be the same.
I am about as far as you can get from a rock star and I had the same wish Pink did. I was a skinny girl before I got pregnant and when my boss made me tell everyone at work I was pregnant (People are asking! You need to tell them something!) I asked for people to please leave me alone about being pregnant. Ha ha yeah. Didn’t happen. People felt completely free to talk about my weight, my weight gain, my puffy pregnant face and really? I was beach ball pregnant. Sometimes people are jerks.
Yay for passing the glucose test!
Yay for no GD! And add me to the list of people whose belly button never popped out – just flattened, too. I do remember, also, writing something inane at some point about how incredibly SOFT the skin that had been formerly deep inside the belly button was, so watch for that! Heh.
I will never forget the time during my last pregnancy when someone at work said to me, “Oooo looks like someone’s got puffy ankles!” As if it was cute. I was still mortified.
Yay for the massage and a looooonnnnng weekend!
My bellybutton flattened too. I was kinda glad
My bellybutton never popped. I was kind of glad. I carried him like a high basketball but because I’m tall, my stomach didn’t get ginormous, weirdly enough. Boobs were another story.