With the rain and laziness of the day, I thought I’d take the time to have a “deep thoughts by Jack Handy” sort of post:
My belly button is currently on the path to the outie zone, so for now I’d like to say that it’s in the neutral zone. This is the point in time where the inny is stretched so tightly, and the uterus is expanding far out enough that the belly button looks like it’s just about to burst into an outie. I never thought this day would come! I don’t think I’ve ever even known one person who had a true outie other than when pregnant. Thoughts?
Another interesting phenomenon is the linea nigra, the line that many women get running down their tummies. I noticed a line around my 24th week, but it was about as faint as my pregnancy test had been, so I was wondering if I was imagining it. But my husband agrees, there is a faint line there. Weird…
And is anyone out there having lower back pain/hip pain, maybe sciatic, maybe sacroiliac, maybe just baby pain? A month or so ago, I started waking up between 3 to 5 am every night with such bad back pain. Considering this started in the middle of my second trimester, I’ll probably be completely screwed out of sleep in the next trimester.
Today, I read that stretch marks during pregnancy can mostly be attributed to heredity. So if your mama has stretch marks from you, chances are you’ll have ‘em too. Awesome…my growth spurt in puberty left me with enough stretch marks to one day blame on pregnancy, but it seems they could be making a comeback. Can a new stretch mark develop over an old stretch mark? I really wonder!
It’s so fascinating how the body can change so quickly, in some beautiful, other horrifying, and some seemingly pointless ways.
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