I love feeling the baby squirm around inside of me
I love being asked "when are you due?" by strangers and grocery store clerks who take one look at my round belly and grin
I love collecting soft swaddle blankets
I love the ferocious urge to purge, cleaning out shelves and closets, organizing the mud room and attic, making even fluffier and cozier our sweet little nest
I love meeting other pregnant women at prenatal yoga, our instant comraderie and connection
I love watching my taut belly jiggle when M makes me laugh
I love the love that we feel right now, from everyone. I love that we were thrown a Nonesuch baby shower and got to celebrate with lots of former students who seem as excited as we are, who even gave us gifts of baby Doc Martens and hand-made knit hats and little cardboard books...
I love talking about birth, babies, and breast-feeding with any and every mom who crosses my path
I love reading about things I never would've thought about, like baby's first bowel movement
I love the anticipation of meeting our baby, girl or boy, looking into those giant eyes and saying, welcome to our world
That's so beautiful you momma to be...
ReplyDeleteI just found you through your mothering.com article and i'm glad! you are such a great writer and i LOVED your perspective on the accumulation of baby stuff. i am 25 weeks pregnant with my first child and have yet to buy one NEW item for this baby; thrifted and borrowed and handmade stuff is so much better in every way.
ReplyDeletethe way you describe pregnancy here is EXACTLY how i've been feeling. it is delicious.