I can't believe how HUGE I was pregnant.

[Shell Beau]

Proof right here. :wow: http://www2.snapfish.com/slideshow/AlbumID=237872226/PictureID=5269999666/a=54421297_54421297/otsc=SHR/otsi=SPIClink/COBRAND_NAME=snapfish

[Arugula Latte]

1. You and me both, Sistah.

I remember feeling like I was going to break through the floorboards as I trundled around in months 8 and 9, especially with baby #1, my son. He's 12 and HUGH1!1!! now. I'm SERIES!!1!!1!

edited to say: You looked cute, though!

[Shell Beau]

2. I avoided cameras the best I could.

My sis-in-law just emailed me the snapfish link. Hard to remember being so large!

[Shell Beau]

3. Group photo

http://www2.snapfish.com/slideshow/AlbumID=237872226/PictureID=5269999160/a=54421297_54421297/otsc=SHR/otsi=SPIClink/COBRAND_NAME=snapfish

[Inchworm]

4. What, you have a child?!?

;)

:hi:

[Shell Beau]

5. What would give you that idea???

:shrug:


:P

[AlCzervik]

6. you looked pretty and happy. I gained over 80 pounds when i was pregnant.

so you imagine how disappointed i was when my daughter only weight 6lbs. 7 ounces, i was shocked, "So then the rest is just all me?" "Yes it is".

[Shell Beau]

8. You thought you were going to have a 70 lb. baby!

:rofl:


I gained 30! Looks like a lot more though. I was so swollen.

[AlCzervik]

9. i kept asking him if he got everything and he kept telling me yes.

[Arugula Latte]

21. Lol. "Hey, Doctor, I'm not using that spleen. Removing it should knock off a few pounds, right?

[ogneopasno]

7. I remember feeling like it would take a U.N. resolution to get me to roll over in bed.

That, and a crane.

[Shell Beau]

10. Yep!!! The simplest things were ridiculous.

Oddly enough, I kinda miss being pregnant.

[ogneopasno]

15. I loved being pregnant. I was good at it and my body was built for it.

You may have noticed my hips.

[Shell Beau]

16. I thought I had good hips for child birth but Bella just

wouldn't fit through. I pushed for 4 hours. She just wouldn't come out that way. x(

[ogneopasno]

17. Yikes! I pushed nine times for my first. Not hours, times.

For my second, I pushed three times. The attending doctor, after I pushed the first time, said, "Oh, I can see you've done this before." Hee!

[Shell Beau]

20. I thought my head was going to pop right off of my head.

The pushing was harder than the aftermath of the c-section. The c-section was a cakewalk.

[Heidi]

11. Well, did you expect Bella's enormous sweetness to be contained

in a _tiny_ little pregnant belly? ;)

By the way, I think you looked gorgeous pregnant. :hug:

[Shell Beau]

13. Ha!! Thanks. Gorgeous is not a word I would use.

Huge, massive, enormous maybe! :P

[BarenakedLady]

12. I did a belly cast with the last one.

I was huge!

[Shell Beau]

14. I thought about doing one. I never got around to it.

It is amazing how much the belly can stretch.

[Lil Missy]

18. When i hit 8 months, I ate 5 meals a day. I thought the world would run out of food.

I only gained 30 pounds. 10 of that the last month.

Seriously, I ate a full breakfast, lunch, and supper. And snacks in between. I thought I would starve to death. And he was up so high the heartburn just about killed me. The week before I delivered, doctor said there's a little more room there. I cried. I thought that kid was going to come out my throat.

[Shell Beau]

19. How much did your babe weigh?

I didn't really eat a lot. I don't know where my weight came from. I know I have never seen a more swollen person. My feet looked like Fred Flinstone feet.

[Lil Missy]

22. He was 7lbs 2 oz. Decent size, but not really big.

I just knew he'd be enormous, like 18 pounds, cause I felt so huge. And I was eating enourmous amounts of food.

BTW, I won the office pool. I just took what was left. Most guessed a girl, and bigger weight.

:)

[marzipanni]

23. Not too huge.

This, on the other hand...
:wow: X 8

[Shell Beau]

25. At least she had 8 ones in there. I had 1!

:P

That just hurts me to look at!

[La Lioness Priyanka]

24. wow. thats pretty big!

[Shell Beau]

26. I know! Luckily I lost all the weight and then some.

Although, my stomach still isn't quite right.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

27. Me too!

I measured my tummy. I got to 52 inches around with ONE baby.

The knees were hurting a lot from the weight. I gained 35 lbs and it all came back off.

Baby was HUGE to me -- 8 pound girl.

The last four months I stayed home and tried to eat, sleep and breathe. :D

[GreenPartyVoter]

28. I was too, hon. On the other hand, the K-2 teacher had a baby this year and only ever

looked like she was smuggling a small basketball everywhere she went. LOL

[tigereye]

29. until you see the stomach of Kate when pregnant (Jon & Kate plus 8 show!)

:scared:

[BikeWriter]

30. There was just more of you to be beautiful.

:hi:

[DBoon]

31. You look great!

And your kid is cute

[crim son]

32. Cute! How much did you gain?

With my third child, a boy, I gained 52 pounds. I lost them ALL within two months.

And your little one is so darned cute!!!!! I'm sure more of you was required to produce such ultimate adorableness. :D

[bluesbassman]

33. You looked happy and healthy.

Just as it should be.:)

[DemBones DemBones]

34. You should see the photo of my MIL who was 4'10"

when she was carrying a 9 3/4 lb. baby. :wow: Like a Volkswagen.

(Actually she was 4'10" all the time, but not always carrying a baby.)

[suninvited]

35. You were still beautiful

and, cliche be damned, glowing!

[SeattleGirl]

36. Aw, I think you're cute!

:loveya: