A brief history of my bump

So at the beginning of this whole pregnancy thing I had a grand plan to take a picture of myself once a week. That way at the end we would have a cool slideshow that went from Jeanne to Giant. Right. It took us until week 13 to actually get our shit together and take one of these photographs. But before that there were some failed self-portrait attempts….Here’s my “bump” at 7 weeks:

I seriously honest to God thought I had a baby bump in that picture. But the fact that I could still button that jeans skirt kindof negates that theory. And this pic just cracks me up:

I mean really, now. What was I trying to prove? That I don’t have a 6 pack? C’mon.

My attempts at a bump picture got even worse with week 10:

I didn’t even drag out the tripod for that one. Also notice the continued wear of a jeans skirt? Although it isn’t buttoned so there’s some bit of a bump there… I actually had been doing the whole use a rubber band to hold up your pants trick since around week 8/9 when I tearfully made my mom go shopping with me because nothing I owned that was work appropriate fit anymore and this wasn’t supposed to happen so soon and… it was all very traumatic. But as my doctor confirmed – I’m very short waisted. There’s nowhere for this kid to go but out.

Should be interesting to see what I look like in a few months! Bets on if I’ll be able to walk upright?

Which brings us to now… and our first actual real bump picture:

13 weeks 2 days

I’m totally starting to look pregnant! Over Labor Day I went out and bought some maternity clothes (as opposed to normal clothes in a size or two bigger than I usually wear). That was WAY less depressing than just buying bigger clothes. My body finally feels like it’s growing a person instead of just a liquor belly and some doughnut flab.

I still refuse to weigh myself unless the doctor makes me, though. No use in getting hung up on that number when I’m still eating whatever sounds like it has a chance of staying down. Even if it’s cheese steak.

Not just cheese steak in that belly.

So hopefully I’ll continue this picture a week thing… it would be fun to see the progress…

In other pregnancy news - we had our second appointment yesterday. It went well. Quick, but well. I had a sonogram so we got to hear the heartbeat for the first time. The doctor warned us it might take awhile to find the heartbeat and not to freak out is she didn’t pick up on it right away....but then she found it almost instantly. 170 beats per minute. So I’m still growing a hummingbird - a very fidgety hummingbird. The baby kicked a bunch of times in the minute we were listening! They came though as LOUD thumps. Part of me can’t wait to feel them… and part of me is terrified because if this kid fidgets anywhere near as much as his father does I’m screwed.

And in non pregnancy news – is anyone going on the Yarn Shop Hop this weekend?