It's a question we all get but when we're pregnant and someone asks us it is swimming with emotions that are constantly changing. Today, I wanted to exhibit how I'm feeling by redrawing the pregnant body at 28 weeks according to my own experience:
Thanks for setting the record straight. Normal is this or worse and anyone with the body on the left cannot be proud of themselves, only feel extremely lucky because the rest of us, through no fault of our own, get BIG....can you see that it's a sore spot with me? The anger and resentment still linger long after the weight is gone and the baby grows up.
I had to add that little roll because it's there and it's not going anywhere! If the image had been bigger I also would have shown you my huge thighs, heavy knees, calves tight with fluid, arms soft and round, and growing chin. But that might be too depressing. LUCKILY, every baby is worth it and more more more!
megan - that is way awesome. it's so true. the "normal" images of a pregnant woman that is usually shown is a pregnant celebrity body. anyway - i loved this. well done :)
The secret to being miserable is having the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
-George Bernard Shaw
1.)"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbor's children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived. "
2.)"The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache."
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Thanks for setting the record straight. Normal is this or worse and anyone with the body on the left cannot be proud of themselves, only feel extremely lucky because the rest of us, through no fault of our own, get BIG....can you see that it's a sore spot with me? The anger and resentment still linger long after the weight is gone and the baby grows up.
for REAL.
That is awesome, it is so true, I especially like how you took care to add the little roll of back-fat.
I had to add that little roll because it's there and it's not going anywhere! If the image had been bigger I also would have shown you my huge thighs, heavy knees, calves tight with fluid, arms soft and round, and growing chin. But that might be too depressing. LUCKILY, every baby is worth it and more more more!
ok, it took me a minute to notice the differences, but that's funny stuff.
megan - that is way awesome. it's so true. the "normal" images of a pregnant woman that is usually shown is a pregnant celebrity body. anyway - i loved this. well done :)
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