Sep 8, 2025
You mind if I just set this here?
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You mind if I just set this here?
do people often ask to feel the tum? or are people typically to shocked to come up to you?
Oh all the time. Unless I'm particularly tired or overwhelmed, or in a hurry, I'll usually let them. I think some are testing to see if it's real, some are other moms/moms-to-be who kind of bond with it...
...and then some people are into it. I can tell. They stare more intently than the rest, they seem more nervous approaching me, they linger longer when I allow them to feel... which, in their case, I do if they're cute.
Which is to say, "I'd definitely let YOU feel,"
I'm so cute and round, how could you not?
Is my belly distracting you? Is my tummy making it hard to focus on what you're doing? It takes up so much space and it's so hard to ignore. How do you think I feel? It's so big, it's in my field of view no matter what. Everyone stares when I go out, I'm probably the most pregnant woman they've ever seen.
I'm sure my choice of shirt doesn't help. I can go change into a maternity top so it's not so distracting for you.
What do you mean, "Please don't?"
do you notice your belly getting any bigger? or has it stuck with one size for a bit
It definitely is slowly still growing but the weird thing about being so big and so pregnant for so long that makes it feel like it's slowed down.
Like, it hasn't slowed at all. My waist is increasing in size inch-by-inch at about the same rate it has since I reached the third trimester, forever ago. But like... I've been very, very pregnant for so long that a whole extra inch to my tummy used to be more significant. It used to be a larger portion of my size. But now? Eh? It's still there, but I don't notice it as much, if that makes sense? Like an extra inch of growth on a 45" around belly is a proportionally more significant increase than that same inch added to a 65" belly. There also hits a point of hugeness where it's less about small gains and more about big thresholds. Hitting 70 inches around is cool, but it's just a number. Hitting the point where I can't reach my keyboard anymore without setting it ON my belly is a much more real measurement.
tl'dr I've been so pregnant for so long that my perspective on my pregnancy has shifted and will probably never be the same.
...and neither will this stupid meme shirt if I keep overstretching it.
Call my belly a crock pot the way these babies are still slow cooking inside me after so long.
I'll "ding" or something when I'm done, right?
Have you ever had anyone not believe that you are pregnant until you showed your belly off due to how enormous it was? Like get stopped by security thinking you're shoplifting because there was no way someone would be this large?
Nothing as serious as security... though I did go see a movie and one of the other patrons made some joking/not-so-joking comment that I was sneaking snacks in under my shirt (I was, but they were in my purse. I'm like two years pregnant by now so forgive me for wanting snacks while not paying $7 per candy bar).
The only other time was while I was at a work gathering and some lady from another department kept insisting that it was fake, and it was some weird maternity leave scam? Eventually I got fed up and bared by tummy and had her feel where one has kicking, which got her off my case.
See YOU guys appreciate it though. I can show off to you because you enjoy it, not because I have to prove a point.
I know at this point EVERY top is a crop top, but look at what I look like wearing an actual, intended crop top!
One is sitting really high and the other is lumped down to the left there and like.... I look ridiculous...
How many looks do you get when going outside? With that massive and pretty belly it must be a non zero percent
That's very sweet of you to call them "looks" but in all honesty, they're stares. Once I'm in peoples line of sight they can't take their eyes off of me. My waddle is VERY pronounced at this point, and I'm out of breath after a short stroll. I've even had people ask if it was fake because of how like, cartoonishly oversized my belly is by now. So to answer your question, "how many looks do I get in public", the answer is ALL of them.
That said, I get to cut in line a lot and always have a seat on public transport so like, you take your sour with your sweet!