bellyvision
Saturday, February 03, 2007
Fun things to do while pregnant: lie in the bath watching your belly shift, slowly and undulatingly, as its inhabit writhes about – I like to think because he/she's enjoying the warm water too. (From the inside, maybe it's like hearing waves lapping the side of a boat. From the outside, sometimes I feel like a fish tank whose occupant keeps swimming abruptly up against the side, thunk. Thunk. THUNK.)
This baby seems much kickier than Becca was – aha! a boy, you see, mutter the old wives, waving their dead chickens at my gently protruding abdomen; I think it likelier that my stomach muscles are just pre-knackered, heightening my awareness of any activity going on in there.
Annoyingly, as the third trimester lumbers into view, the morning sickness demons appear to be redoubling their efforts (chocolate! chocolate, my one consolation, now gives me vile heartburn; and Easter coming up too) so we start on the serious-arse drugs next week.
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