My Little Coppertop

This may seem obvious, but I discovered today that I have a human INSIDE my body! What?!?! It's finally sinking in that there's a HUMAN inside me. I can't believe I'm making a little boy from scratch! I don't know what I'm doing and I have no clue what's going on in there. It's so weird.

Anyway, this morning it really hit home because everything felt really different. Every morning I have a routine for changing what side I sleep on. I can't believe that I actually have a set procedure for something so simple as flipping sides. So many things have increased in complexity now that I'm pregnant! Let's get back to the story...this morning, when I woke up around 5:00 am to change sides, I followed my procedure on flipping. First, I move my Snoogle out of the way, then I flip onto my back since baby seems to dislike when I flip too fast. Then, I stretch a little and when I was going to begin the big flip to my other side, I felt the baby move. But this was a different move, it was like I could feel him moving around like alien-style. It was like that scene from the Matrix when Neo "wakes up" in the fluid sack and you can see his hands and arms moving around in the sack. It feels like what that looks like. It was amazing. I looked at my Budda belly and I could see something moving. Maybe an elbow or foot or something? I wish I could see what is going on in here! Right now, it's not only exciting, it's also a little gross.

If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all...

I'm 24 weeks, almost 25 weeks, so I've got a baby bump. I love my baby bump! A couple of months ago, I was wondering when my baby bump would come and it's finally here! I feel like I grow in spurts, like every week, I spurt one day a week. People at work started noticing my bump about 3 or 4 weeks ago, but they're all hesitant to ask me about it. It usually goes like this...first, they see me in the hallway and make an obvious effort to stop me to talk. They ask what's new with me with that way people ask when they are asking for an answer to a question that's between the lines. You know, like when someone asks a question and they stick their neck out with eyebrows raised? I've been "el preggo" for almost this entire year, so this is technically not news for me, and I like to make it hard, so I rarely concede the news. They eventually ask for personal news or tell me the "You should never ask a woman if they're pregnant" speech. I wouldn't be offended if people were to ask me. I can honestly say this because, last year, three people thought I was pregnant, but I wasn't pregnant. Two of them actually asked me, one was too embarrassed to ask so he asked a coworker. Anyway, people go out of their way to tell me that no one should ask a woman if she's pregnant because she may not be. What I don't understand is why they follow that with, "Wow, you're so big! Are you having twins?"

Pee is for Pythagorean

So I'm sitting in a meeting today at work and we're trying to troubleshoot a hardware issue. There's one guy at a wall that's got whiteboard wallpaper along the whole thing. He's scribbling block diagrams all over the place and we're talking about RF input, bla, bla, bla, down conversions, harmonics and oh my gosh, baby starts kicking! Okay, keep focused this is important stuff, Nyquist zone, bla, bl....oh gosh I have to pee REALLY bad and baby is kicking....okay, I will just get up and say I'll be back. These guys should get that we've been sitting here for almost two hours and I've gone through my entire water bottle, right? Oh...wait, I don't have to go now. Okay, so back to test equipment set up, input frequencies...whoa...Peepee Emergency! Oh, wait, it's gone. OH, so this is the whole "baby is pushing on my bladder" thing pregnant people always go on about! Oh geez, it's back! Code RED Peepee emergency, highest threat level! Where's the nearest restroom? Can I make it? Oh, wait it's gone again.