Friday, June 17, 2011

You don't know what you are getting yourself in to...

I had my first "can I touch your belly?" recently.  I know that it is every little old lady's desire to rub a pregnant woman's belly, but before letting her go in for her rub I simply said "You don't know what you are getting yourself in to..."  Before I could finish, her hand had already touched down.  I didn't have the heart to tell her that her rub of the baby was actually my incisional hernia.  Too bad that my bowel wasn't working at the time so she could have thought she felt the baby kick.

I don't have that glamorous baby bump that has both young and old clamoring to touch and see what the feel.  I have more of the "what exactly is going on here" baby bump.  I look like a more traditional pregnant woman from the left side because my parastomal hernia rounds out my bump.  But from the right, even I have to admit I looks ridiculous.  I guess I should be prepared to have my Demi Moore naked on the cover of a magazine shot made from the left.  I hope no one minds the Coloplast ostomy bag hanging.  Maybe they can photoshop that out.

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