If you will allow me to permit, this is a photo taken by me. It is a lonely photo because after many many many inquiries to Chup he has yet obliged me with a photo shoot of my "lovely baby bump." He claims my new over-the-hills-esque physique is to his liking, though not enough to get out his snapping Nikon D-70. And yet, e-mail after e-mail comes pouring in, "When are you going to show us an updated picture of your pregnancy?"
A couple of days previous I had taken some pics of my belly exposed. My belly button is wondrously cavernous these days. As I was doing some post-production work on the shots (nip tuck/nip tuck), I asked Chup if he thought it appropriate to show my naked belly to the world via my blog.
His answer?
"No."
Being the old-fashioned wife that I am I immediately halted plans to publish my centerfold. And yet, it was he who, just a year ago, streamlined a series of pictures of my cleavage on a birthday tribute to me and posted on youtube. The universe looks at youtube! Even the Martians!
Cleavage ok? Baby bump not?
Then I start to wonder, as any wife would, perhaps Chup doesn't find my belly as attractive as I had hoped. Maybe he's just enduring the whole protrusion. Or at some level, it is a symbol of things to come. Our rapidly awkward ability to hug reminds him only of something "getting in the way" of "just us." This is so complicated.
I would like to relish this time though, it won't be long until this happens. (That is a link by-the-way, you are supposed to use your mouse to click on it.)
I am sure even the Martians think it's a little too alien.
February 12, 2008
Up In There
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That video freaked me out and I've been pregnant three times.
Also, I recently complained to my husband that I HATE that part of pregnancy when my belly is now bigger than my boobs. He agreed.
At least he's honest.
That video is crazy!
Maybe I'm weird, but I am totally turned on by my wife's belly when it's really big. I think it is so sexy.
So in that regard, I don't think it's appropriate to show, bare, on the internet. Because it's a 'sexy' place, just like the clavicle and the butt awning(think about it).
Is that too much information from me?
I've never thought to video the baby kicking. Maybe next time I'm prego we will.
Dear Chup,
Please take some pictures of Cjane's baby bump. Thank you, in advance.
Sincerely,
Cami
Maybe it will work?!?
My belly was doing that very thing this morning when the sweet ultrasound tech was trying to measure her heart and kidneys. They couldn't get a clear shot, but you could see actual body parts imprinted in my skin. Funny, huh?
I keep waiting for my belly to get bigger than my boobs, but it might not happen. Only a few weeks to go, but it might help me feel more pregnant and not just look like I had a huge lunch....(now you are left to wonder if my tummy is just small or my chest is the size of the Rockies....)
My husband is kind of wierded out by the whole huge belly thing. He isn't the type to look at it and think it is totally hot. But he does like the enlarged Mt. Whitney mountain range.
One time one of our babies was thrashing around, and for a millisecond there was a distinct hand print pushing through the skin, as if Lois' belly were thin like a rubber balloon. It was one of the coolest, trippiest things I've EVER seen.
An artist friend made a plaster mold of his wife's pregnant torso and it hung in his studio. He'd also made some castings from the mold. It was awesome. I always meant to make a mold too, but never got around to it. I think you guys are cool enough to hang a fiberglass torso somewhere in the house. It doesn't need to be in the living room.
The thing that I miss the most about being pregnant is watching the baby move. It's freaky and cool at the same time.
Did you watch American Idol tonight? If you did, did you see the contestant sing "Alone"? Thought you might be interested, if you're still being obsessed with that song.
I love, love, love that time of pregnancy.
Other Half is freaked, freaked, freaked. No, he does not want to feel the baby move. No, he does not want to see the arm go by. No, he does not want to feel the bum.
Like I said, 1950s. I did not marry a new age guy.
I think that is the one thing I'm really sad about--knowing I'll never feel that simply amazing feeling ever again.
I am currently pregnant and love to feel the baby move but that video on you tube is disgusting. You tube finds are way to make lovely things not so lovely. I hope you start feeling better soon. At least you know you'll feel better by May for sure!
This reminds me of the days of my first pregnancy. My husband was mostly working out of town. Every evening, after reading a little, I would sit on the couch with my bare belly and watch my very active baby roll around and stretch. I never got bored of it. You have much to look forward too!
(And Matthew--my husband feels the very same.)
wow you have lovely lady lumps!
I'm amazed because Nigel always said that he never felt the baby move and now he's saying he saw a hand? Is this a different wife?
It always kind of weirded me out. It felt like kittens or something in there.
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