My Three Sons

Friday, September 28, 2007

This is the question I am asked at least five times a day lately. And then I get to watch their reaction as I tell them I still have five weeks to go. It's hilarious to see people's faces...their eyes get all big then they stare at my stomach then they mutter something like "nooooooooo way!" or the ever popular "huh?!?!?!?!?!" or "hoooooooow much loooonger?!!?". Sometimes I just wanna be like "yeah you're right my stomach is huge, my baby is huge and I've been pregnant for two years." and if you're the fifth person of the day asking the question and I'm particularly exhausted and hormonal you'll get that answer. Just ask the receptionist at Blake's after school daycare.

I've decided to make a game out of it. I'll give a different answer each time I'm asked that day. If it's someone I know or work with then obviously I have to give a somewhat legitimate answer, but it'll vary from "a few more weeks" to "alllllllll the way until November 2nd" to "about a month" to the full on long story version about how I'm technically due November 2nd but the baby is measuring and weighing in big so I might be induced early etc etc. But if a stranger in a store or somewhere asks me I like to come up with inventive answers to keep myself from punching them in the face. It'll be something like "ohhhh any day now!" or "not much longer!" or "today's my due date!". You have to do what you can to keep sane at 35 weeks and counting.

I haven't done belly pics in a while so here's what I have. These are from about weeks 33 and 34.

posted by Sara at 11:56 AM -

1 Comments:

At September 30, 2007 at 3:31 PM, Anonymous said…

Why not tell someone that you're really carrying 3 or 4 babies and you still have 5 months to go. I'd love to see their reaction from that!

You're doing great and try not to let dumb people get to you. They probably don't realize that you don't want to talk about the pregnancy 24/7.