As you will recall, due to my pregnancy
complications, I now weigh less than when I started off on this adventure.  However, my stomach remains.  But my bottom has disappeared.  I look a bit like these lads who were skinny
in their 20s and then ran to seed in their 30s – still skinny but with a pot
belly.  On the plus side, my ankles have
returned to their usual dimensions.  I
keep looking at them wondering how these slender stalks can possibly support
me.

So I still have this enormous bump and it is
very distressing.  I have no recollection
of this happening last time.  And itÂ’s very
noticeable.  I was in mothercare the
other day spending all our money on whiskey and beer (um no actually on
breastpumps, bottles, cot sheets and maternity bras, if you must know) and the
lady behind the counter asked when my baby was due.  “The week before last” I said sourly.  Which just goes to show, as Mr. Waffle
observed, that you should never, never ask, if someone is pregnant.  A woman with a visible bump is buying lots of
baby gear – you might think it would be safe to assume that she is pregnant –
wrong, wrong, wrong.

belgianwaffle

on 13 October 2005 at 17:17

Well the truth must out. How’s your cold? 0
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StarCorner

on 13 October 2005 at 17:24

Oh dear – I’ve done that to someone who I thought had been pregnant the last time I saw her and had asked her what she’d had. Turns out she was just fat… oh dear oh dear oh dear!!! 0
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jackdalton

on 14 October 2005 at 09:52

So basically your bum is now in front and up a bit. That sounds very worrying. 0
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belgianwaffle

on 14 October 2005 at 11:41

Star, very distressing for all parties concerned.
JD, yes. 0
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Locotes

on 14 October 2005 at 13:27

Fear not, once they start crawling you’ll be highly toned just from chasing them. Not to mention rushing to stop the Princess from poking them with her finger. Which I hear she’s liable to do… 0
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jackdalton

on 14 October 2005 at 14:03

Well that being so, there is of course an up-side.
For teh next few weeks, you won’t have to ask does me bum look big in this? all you have to do is look down… 😐
And now I think I’d best be away. Sharpish. [runs] 0
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belgianwaffle

on 15 October 2005 at 13:33

Yvonne, oh sympathy. Am very comforted by what you say about the big tummy going away though. Fingers crossed.
Locotes, if they’re anything like their sister, they won’t crawl for another 10 months, I can’t stay like this until then…I want to go out and not have people ask me about my due date.
JD, there is something in what you say, of course, but if I were you, I would pick up speed! 0
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