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April 3, 2001
24 weeks
Hello again! Well, here I am at 6 months. I still can't believe this is happening! Everyday is an adventure. I could sit and watch my stomach for hours! Well, she doesn't move for hours on end (Thanks Goodness!) but when she does move I am in heaven. I find that if I don't notice her moving I concentrate on her so that when she does move I will feel it. One of our cats, Mikey, accidentally jumped on my stomach this morning and I about hurt her. Then I started thinking about it and realized that I haven't felt the baby move much since yesterday. And then I started to panic. Of course this is at 6 AM this morning. I had to take some deep breaths and talk to God and then I was okay. Sure enough when I got up later she was moving all over. Thank God!
My dr appt last Thursday was uneventful. I have gained a total of 12 lbs, which is on the low end of normal. I hope to stay on the low end due to the fact that I was a little overweight to begin with. So far, so good. My stomach was measured ( just perfect) and we listened to the heartbeat. Next time I have to do the GTT. I had a 3 hour one done before to check for diabetes so this one won't be so bad. I just hate to think about drinking that stuff. After this next appt. I will start going every two weeks. It just doesn't seem possible! My Childbirth Preparation Class begins next Monday. For seven weeks we will go from 10- 12:30 every Monday morning. It would be nice to sleep in while we still can but my husband works second shift and so we have to go to the morning class.
On to my rant for this entry. As many of you can tell, I don't look my age. I look like a young teenager. Over the years I have gotten used to comments made or being ignored at stores and so on. I knew this time would come in this pregnancy but now that it is here I am really annoyed. I am a clerk at a public library branch. We usually only have two people at night and on my night to work that is me and another girl who is one month younger than me (she looks a little older though!). I have some shirts that are a little big and before some people might not have noticed that I am pregnant. Now however, that is impossible to miss. I have had several patrons make comments about this fact. I was checking this woman's books out and the whole time she didn't say one word to me. I really didn't think anything of it until I was going to give her the date due slip and she so rudely says "Are you still in high school?" First off, it is none of her business how old I am or when I graduated high school. Second, if I was in high school, what would she have said? Thinking the whole time I don't have to tell you this I informed her that I graduated high school in 1996 and that I had been married for 3 years. She just stood there and stared a me and then said that I didn't look that old. At a loss as to what to say I just said that I had the birth certificate to prove it. She gave me dirty look and walked out. What right does she have to judge me? I don't judge her when she walks through that door into the library and I feel that I should be free of judgment also. Then I have the patrons who don't say anything but all they do is stare at my stomach. I just want to ask them if this is the first time they have seen a pregnant woman. I wish I could see some of these people out on the street so I could give them a piece of my mind. However, this only seems to happen at work. That or I just don't notice it when my husband and I are out. As a society we tend to judge people by appearances and that is just awful. We have to stop and think how we look to people. I learned a long time ago not to judge others. It would be nice to have some of these other people learn the same.
Sorry I ranted for so long! Belly rubs to all!
Cherylyn
edd 7/22/01
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