by looking at me in maternity clothes, it's easy to tell that i'm pregnant. i've got the little round pooch a growin'. but (like today) wearing sweat pants and a t-shirt with a throw-on jacket, i could be mistaken for eating a few too many cookies.
i can officially no longer wear my engagement ring. i smashed my hand in a door before i got married and the ring band isn't a perfect circle anymore. so when i retain water (which since everything must have salt on it, i am permanently a balloon), it is not comfortable at all to have on, let along attempting to take off without soapy water.
luckily i haven't joined my engagement and wedding bands yet. it's been something that i've been putting off. but i have always believed that procrastination is a virtue, this proves my point. if i had to take both rings off then i would be walking around with a naked ring finger and having old ladies look at me in disgust, "oh she's going to eternal damnation, getting knocked up and unwed!" so i'll wear my diamond-less ring proudly and flash that finger as i pass them little hypocritical women.
according to my little "pregnancy countdown" information book, today my little peanut has grown to the size of a large avocado (wow, i could so go for an avocado right now!) measuring about 4 1/2 inches from head to bum, and weighing in at about 3 ounces.
the more i feel the tickle of movement, the more i bond with the little one. it makes me glow with pride knowing that he/she is growing and is healthy as they swim and flip and work out these new movements of this being they are becoming.
i was reading about the different ways that a child becomes unique while being in the womb. fingerprints. did you know that fingerprints are formed by the little hands moving back and forth in the ambiotic fluid creating unique ripples in the newly made skin of their fingers and toes! so even identical twins have completely different fingerprints. that is so awesome to me!
speaking of fingers and toes, lil peanut is growing nails this week. that and taste buds! according to my recent findings, if i eat spicy foods (which is something i have not been wanting lately) the baby will taste it! also the taste buds of the tiny tongue can tell when i eat something sweet. research has shown that when the baby tastes sweetness it becomes happy. Now i've got my doubts to believe this as truth. it seems to me that most sweet things contain some amounts of caffeine, so i would think that this "happiness" researchers are referring to may be the little one being effected by caffeine.
but still, it's fun to think about the fact that as i am indulging in a sweet treat, as is my babe.
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