Comments on Your Belly Size!!!

[Gigi]

Sometimes, when you don't "show" very obviously, and no-one notices, it can be a real pain. Last week my car broke down near a intersection at 6pm (it was dark). I had to push my car (in neutral) by myself a couple of metres before i had to admit defeat. It was not easy to get help, as i don't look pregnant. But it was impossible to both steer the car AND push the car at the same time, so i panicked and stood in the middle of this busy intersection bawling. (I already had bad back pain from lifting lots of heavy boxes, yes, we are moving house without a moving van so my car was stacked with boxes.)

Eventually, a guy came to use the pedestrian crossing and he came and offered to push the car for me around the corner. Afterwards i tried to thank him and of course when i told him i was 5 months pregnant he looked at me in a "yeah right" kind of way.

I guess the grass is always greener, but i figure i am going thru the same aches and pains that other women just as pregnant as me are going thru, but don't get acknowledged as being pregnant. I long for the beautiful belly i see in the photos of other BB members. Becos i'm short, i thought i would be enormous the entire time, i didn't count on being ill. I weigh 2 kgs more than i did before conceiving, lost heaps due to illness early on, i worry baby will be undernourished (which is ironic really, as all my life i have battled the weight like a yo-yo and have often been overweight for my 5ft2.)

Every women's body seems to react a bit differently to pregnancy and also to subsequent pregnancies (which people mention you show earlier) - there is nothing wrong with being different, i have no idea why people in general have all these half-assed theories and feel so compelled to put those thoughts onto pregnant women. (Gawd, did i say stuff like that before i got pregnant? i hope not!!) As for strangers touching your belly, ugh, i would hate that. I like people to use manners.

I am fascinated by pregnant bellies right now but try hard not to stare too obviously, as i wouldn't want to offend anyone. I think they are beautiful and it amazes me the special passenger they have inside.