Andrea’s Weblog

It must be the heat down here (mid-upper 90′s) that makes pregnant chicks appear more miserable. Several times in the last week I have gotten comments from people indicating that they don’t think I’ll make it to July 21st. The cashier at Lowes said I’m “gonna pop” to which my response was “I hope not.” [...]

As the weeks tick away I feel I’m beginning to get used to my limitations. I’ve trained myself to carefully squat to pick things up off the floor (I’m not saying it still doesn’t take several swipes to grab something). I’ve learned the steps for getting out of bed: roll over on side to face [...]

We had our second childbirth class last night. The men, or rather, coaches got to model the sympathy belly. It’s a 30 pound jacket complete with belly and boobs, tight straps to constrict breathing and some moving balls to simulate kicks. I could barely pick up this thing off the table, but Frank was a [...]

Men are trained from a very young age not to comment on a woman’s weight. When confronted with an obviously pregnant woman, this seems to cause a social dilemma. Do you ogle the belly, ignore it, comment on how large it is, comment on how large the woman is? What do you do? It has [...]