Bump Pictures

Last week, I feared that I had just blown by my target weight gain of 40 pounds.

Although I had been gaining about 1 pound per week throughout the last trimester, in the last two weeks, I gained 8 pounds.

But, it turns out, a lot of that was water weight. Now that labor is drawing near and the baby is moving into position, I’ve now shed 6 pounds of that water weight.

My doctor tells me that this is going to be an average-sized baby, right around 7.5 pounds. I believe that.

Now, I’m not much of a selfie person.

Nor am I much of a sharing-pictures-of-my-stomach person.

But this is the last time I’m going to have a baby. And I have a feeling my future self would have wanted me to have pictures.

So here is a synopsis.

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It’s hard to tell in the pictures, but this baby is pretty much wrapped around me. It is head-down, butt usually resting on my left side while its feet push out of my right side.

Charming position.

People sometimes ask me if I have a feeling about what this baby is like.

Yes. Yes, I do.

One word: Feisty.