Today I picked up CJB from preschool, and one of the other mommies there exclaimed in surprised, because she hadn’t realised I was pregnant. I pick him up from school three mornings a week, so I see the other mommies all the time, but this sudden recogntion of pregnancy is happening at least three or four times a week now. It’s because it’s warmer out now, so I don’t have a big coat on, and the waddling is much more obvious. Plus, I guess I am now officially big enough so that it’s no longer a possible faux pas to assume I am pregnant, although in my opinion, I’ve been undoubtably basketball-shaped for at least two months now.

Side note: also freakishly confirming the pregnancy, the baby is currently in a weird position where its feet are right behind my belly button, causing the occasional rock-hard foot-shaped lump to appear in my midsection. Whoever wrote Alien definitely was inspired by someone’s pregnancy!

Anyway, it’s kind of weird but kind of nice to have so many people noticing now that I’m expecting, and asking the usual excited questions about the baby. But in the meantime, I have learned that a) most of my coats, which I can still get into at 7 months pregnant, are way, way too big for me, and Stacy and Clinton of What Not To Wear would be horrified, and b) really big coats and sweaters can hide an awful lot. Like, four pounds of baby and weird alien belly movements. Good to know!