We'll call these pictures "17 weeks," even though it's a day shy.
Heck, I have a few hours of child-free time right now, so this WILL be 17 weeks.
I do not promise regular pictures at all. Regular pictures are for a first pregnancy, when you're watching your normal body become "cute pregnant." Regular pictures are NOT made for a body after multiple pregnancies. It's just not super...cute. ;)
Guys, this is my fifth pregnancy. My body is not exactly "bouncing back," shall we say? I swear, the moment I got pregnant I could practically hear my uterus saying "Oh! We're doing THIS again? Got it! Let's GOOOOOOOOOOOO!" And then BAM. I looked 20 weeks pregnant almost instantly. Or, at 12 weeks at least. These pictures--this shirt--do a rather good job of hiding that, so that makes me feel a little bit better.
I don't think I looked any bigger with Finn at 39 weeks than with Layla at 39 weeks, but my body sure got to that "large" point much faster (in fact, I gained 36 lbs with Layla, but only 24 lbs with Finn...and it didn't matter. I looked exactly as big.)...and here we go again. It's happening so much faster, so my only real body-image hope is that it happens fast, but I don't surpass the other pregnancies in size at least. ;)
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| 17 weeks. |
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| Getting the right angle is hard. |
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| Here is a close -up of part of my dresser top, UN-EDITED, UN-CLEANED. Those stacks and stacks of boxes? Those are a box or two shy of my one-month supply of shots. |
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| Twice a day (every 12 hours), every day, from 6 weeks pregnant until 6 weeks AFTER I give birth, I have to give myself these shots. So, that's a full 40 weeks of shots. Blech. Our insurance this time around is not as good as it was for Layla (teacher insurance--the one big perk of being a teacher), and Finn (thank you, America/MN), but these $1,500 a month shots are still covered with only my co-pay. Other parts of this long process will not be covered, but at least THIS is covered. So I'm thankful for that! |
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| They really sting. I've got great black and blue bruises on each side from them, should I even need them for some sort of dramatic show and tell. ;) |
