Here's one of my favorite mommy-/pregnancy-related jokes:
A pregnant woman was getting out of the shower one day when her 4-year-old looked up at her and saw her naked.
"Mommy, you look fat," he said.
"That's not nice," the woman replied. "And remember, we talked about how there's a baby growing in Mommy's tummy, and that's what's making my belly so big."
The boy waited a second, then asked, "Yeah, but what's growing in your butt?"
It's time for a confession that's perhaps just a little too much information.
I feel fat.
No, you haven't clicked the wrong link and gotten to the Weighing In blog (www.yorkblog.com/weigh), done by my friend Michele Canty. (If you haven't stopped in to check that one out, do. It's totally worth your time).
But I do feel fat. I'm in that awkward early-fourth-month stage, where I have a belly but it's not enough for people to be able to definitely tell it's a pregnant belly and not just an I-ate-too-much-for-lunch-again belly. And thanks to my overwhelming nerves during the first several weeks of the first trimester, I gained 10 pounds in, like, three weeks.
So this means there's just more of me to love, right? Screw that.
I haven't truly been happy with my weight since probably my freshman or sophomore year of college. I was OK with what I weighed around the time I got married, which was in 2001. When I got pregnant with Sam in 2002, I was a little less OK with my weight, but it wasn't as though I was pushing the too-big-for-my-height mark.
Now? Forget it.
I've basically been yo-yoing around with 10 or 15 pounds since I had Sam. Add in the tough spells I went through in dealing with the two babies we lost, and I'd have to say it's been waaaaaay less than pleasant trying to lose weight and keep it off.
I think I'll be all right once I really start getting a clear-cut pregnant belly, but for now, this sweet "thickening of my middle" phase is really making me cranky.
How did you deal with weight gain/loss during and after your pregnancies? Did you ever get back to your prepregnancy weight?
