Belly Button

Well I haven't been able to see my belly button for awhile, but on Friday I happened to look in the mirror while I was getting dressed and noticed that it looks very stretched out. I told Paul it might be popping out sometime in the coming weeks, and he looked rather horrified at that possibility, LOL. I don't think he realized an "innie" can become an "outie" during pgcy! :-) I have noticed also that other women get these red stretch marks on their bellies during pgcy. I have some white ones since the 2nd tri, but no red ones yet and frankly I don't mind if I never get them. We shall see what happens these last 10 weeks. It's funny because now MOST people seem to be able to tell I am pg (surprisingly it's still not 100%), but pretty much everyone guesses I am not as far along as I am. They'll look at me and ask "are you due in Sept or Oct" or something like that, or when I tell them I'm due in July they'll say something like I don't look big enough to be due that soon. As badly as I wanted to be showing in the beginning of the pgcy, I have to say I have no desire to be "really big" at this point. I am fine with my belly being on the smaller side if it happens to stay that way. I think it's in part due to the fact I have a long torso. I am 5'7" but my height is in my torso not my legs (I can wear petite size pants). I'm content that I do "look pg." I am uncomfortable enough with this size belly and can imagine I'd only be more uncomfortable with a bigger belly. I am not trying to win any contests for the biggest pg belly. It's funny though bc most people I see each week know how far along I am so I haven't gotten that type of comment very often, but I was deluged with those comments on Thursday night at the CPR class, Friday during the day at the grant meeting, and Friday night at the faculty social.

On Friday night each table had one chair that had a red stone taped to it, and that person got to take home a small box of Godiva chocolates. I sat in one of those seats! :-) There was a chemistry prof (Eric) there whose wife is pg, and she also won the prize at her table. Someone made a comment that it was good that the pg women were winning the chocolate. :-) When we were chatting with them, Eric said how they had tried to have a baby due in May, but that didn't happen (this is their 2nd child - their firstborn is 2 years old). I didn't say a word. I didn't know what to say. Of course he has no idea we started trying for our baby 6 years ago. I have no clue how to respond to someone who is disappointed that the EDD is 3-4 months later than they "planned" when mine is 5+ years later.

My hectic schedule last week caught up with me yesterday. I came home from choir rehearsal and was set to start grading and I just couldn't keep my eyes open so I slept for an hour on the couch. I woke up and did some grading and about 3 hours later was back asleep again for another hour. Then I only managed to stay up for about 2 more hours and was in bed before 8pm. So I didn't get nearly as much grading done as I had hoped. I think I'm at 13 done and 55 to go or something like that. Hopefully this afternoon/evening I can make a LOT more progress. However, I must have needed the sleep. I am also not sure how long it takes for the iron supplements to "cure" the anemia. I've only been on them for about 3 days.