Realizations about pregnancy

So now that I am almost getting into the home stretch with this pregnancy (11 to 14 weeks left, depending on when I deliver) I am starting to realize some things about pregnancy that didn't make as much sense before.

• Weight is a completely irrelevant issue right now (thank you Lord!)
• Where in the past it would make you pee your pants if you saw lumps rolling across your abdomen, right now it's endearing.
• When pregnant women hold their tummies, they're just checking to make sure nothing has ruptured.
• The going to the bathroom thing wouldn't be so instantaneously important or frequent but for the fact that you have someone in there who waits until your bladder hits that magical amount of critical mass and then decides to do a canon ball directly onto it.
• I no longer own my liver, it has become my child's favorite play thing.
• While a normal person maybe OK with the temperature in a room being slightly elevated, right now, the portable heat generator I'm carrying keeps me constantly warm (I was always cold before, but Mike is loving my constant need for fans and AC as long as I don't make him too cold).
• Pregnant women waddle because that is the most comfortable way to walk so as to stretch the torso for extra space.
• Things that fall on the floor, stay on the floor. There is no lady-like way to bend over and pick things up while pregnant. In not too long there will just be no way to bend.
• Unfortunately for Mike, the sense of sympathy for the husband at this time is something that has to be coaxed to come forward.
• I have come to look at breathing normally as a luxury I will not have for the next several months.
• Athletic endeavors of any kind would be perfectly fine for pregnant women. However they are squelched by three of the previous issues- the portable heat generator, the feeling of something popping out, and the not breathing normally.
• God's interesting sense of humor allows the belly button to pop out just about the time you can no longer bend over to check that it's still intact. How convenient.
• As if the aforementioned items don't make sleeping interesting enough, random charlie horses make a whole other challenge.

Don't get me wrong, I actually love being pregnant. This is such an amazing time. I'm constantly amazed by the way God has designed my body to work to create a person! There are still times that it is hard to wrap my mind around and it doesn't seem real- and then he rolls over sending a wave across my tummy. It's just that I can finally understand why some women are so miserable at the end of their pregnancy that the thought of labor is actually a relief. We won't discuss the labor thing now though. I still haven't quite reached that point. I may be a little uncomfortable, but labor still just sounds painful.