Anticipating Birth

I’ve contemplated some time now whether or not to share with people some of my thoughts while being pregnant. Since I’m about due to give birth in about four and a half weeks, I thought now would be a good time to start.

One of the reasons that has been an unexpected blessing is all the attention I get as a pregnant woman. Due to the fact that having a pregnant belly has become just as normal to me as having black hair, sometimes I forget what I may look like to other people who I do not know. The range of questions and expressions that I have received from people range from...

“Are you just having one?”

“When are you due? Good thing its in July before it gets too hot.”

While going through a drive thru window with my husband, I was sitting in the passenger seat and the woman asks “Is she with child?”

That was just the most unique way of asking whether I was pregnant and I found it to be quite endearing.

I went for a swim yesterday because of the increasing hot weather and thought a dip in the pool would be soothing to this body. As I left the gym the woman said, “ I just love seeing your pregnant belly”. That was nice of her to say that.

Other people have expressed gentler ways of saying how much bigger I am. Recently I heard someone say to me, “Oh you are strong”. Strong eh? I’d like to think I am strong sometimes. But I think I still waddle. As I was driving home this week I thought about penguins and how they waddle. They have this strut with their wings at their side and walk with a waddle with bodily movements that look like they shift from left and right and front and back. But if the penguins needed to, they can move pretty fast to capture its food or jump in the water. Penguins. Pretty cool animals.

In the meantime, I am very thankful for this pregnant belly. It has been a blessing and sparked many conversations with people whom I normally wouldn’t go out of my way to talk to. In many ways, this baby in the belly has already been a blessing to myself and many others before he has made his appearance in this world. Can’t wait for him to show up in a months time. I’m counting down the days and enjoying every minute of it!

Waddle waddle.