No, this is not my new age...though I must admit besides the painful relationships and crappy jobs, 25.5 wasn't a bad age to be. 25.5: weeks into pregnancy; 34: new age. The birthday was wonderful: a long walk on the beach with my love, sea air, fried shrimp, sunflowers in Mason jars, two slices of lemon cake with fresh blueberry sauce, and then, poof, another year older.
Over the past two days, I have become number and size obsessed. My mind is a third grade math class. If Nicole's uterus is the size of a soccer ball and will only grow larger, how big will it be in seven weeks? Fourteen weeks? After another slice of cake?
It is, it seems, all relative. Yesterday, traveling home, I complained for the first several hours how LARGE I was feeling, and then suddenly it struck me how small the baby will be.
What if we crush it? How will we take care of something so tiny? Why do I need to get so BIG to birth something so small? If the baby weighs 1.5 pounds (about the size of a rutabaga) and the woman has gained XX pounds, what accounts for all the other rutabagas? (Hint: the answer is not rutabaga.)
Now, I will move on to other numbers. School starts in eight (8!) days. C. has been smoke-free for seven (7!) weeks. If the room is very quiet I can feel the second (2!) heart beating in my body. I have just polished off a (1!) delicious peach. I may soon have another.
5 comments:
oh, sugar, i think the whole large marge thing just comes with the territory. we're on loan...the small farm, growing the rutabaga, the playing field for the soccer ball. you are the PERFECT container for your tiny girl inside you...and will be the PERFECT mamma when she decides it's hight time to exit. happy birthday week!
Happy Birthday!!
You are still less than one year younger than me. :P
The reason why we get so big is to pad the little peanut inside, really, really well!!
Sounds good, right?
My (4!) month old son is popping his first (2!) teeth. When did my newborn gain his body weight and start teething. It's going way too fast!!!!
Happy Birthday!!!!
and as a representative of the 25.5's, it's an ok age, but it's no 22.
“At 34 a woman should know herself like the palm of her hand, know the exact number of her defects and qualities, know how far she can go, foretell her failures - be what she is. And, above all, accept these things.”
happy birthday, beauty.
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