ok. So, about the belly picture...my camera is in Fredericton, but I'll have it this weekend. It'll just be that much more fun for you to see the difference from that one over yonder.
Anyhoo. A friend of mine at work gave me some baby clothes, sleepers and onsies and stuff, all in very gender neutral colours like white, yellow, etc. So, at the same time that I'm thinking, 'wow, my tummy is getting big, I wonder how big and alieny this baby is going to get in the next 2-3 months!'...I'm looking at these teeny-tiny clothes and thinking, 'holy crap, I can't believe I'm going to be responsible for someone so very, very tiny!'
It's all relative I guess. Compared to regular-sized people, babies are really quite small. Compared to, say, molecules of pee (or anything else I can more easily imagine coming out of that specific area of my body), babies are really quite enormous. I have to say, the whole delivery thing is scaring me a bit. I know that women have been doing it for approximately a billion years, mostly without medication of any kind. I, however, have never done it before, and it's scary. All my 'your pregnancy this week' emails are more about how to tell if I'm going into labour and what to expect (like an email can prepare you for that), than about the baby. The baby is basically done, just small scale. All the finishing touches and filling out and whatnot, the getting strong is happening now. This week his/her eyes opened, and s/he even has eyelashes! Pretty amazing. Random fact for the week: in one of my books, I read that sometimes premature babies don't have nipples, because they're one of the last things to develop. That's kind of funny. I wonder if boys will ever eventually evolve to not have them at all? Why do they have them now? This is getting a big tangent-y; I think that means it's bedtime.
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