August 29, 2008

Nope, not twins, but thanks for asking.

Oh my goodness. I have a riot on my hands after posting that pre c-section picture of me. I swear it is just the angle of the picture because I felt pretty whale-like. I was by no means "little" as many of you say. I had gained the average 30 pounds and had a glorious amount of stretch marks! But apparently the way I was standing makes me look smaller than I was (although to me I look pretty darn large!). And aside from the comments, I was even getting emails about it, so I thought I would post a picture of me a week before I had Cora to hush you all up.

In these pictures I was already 2 weeks over due. By this time my whole body had swollen up and I had gained 20 pounds of water weight in those 2 weeks (which was the same amount of weight I had gained up to that point!). My toes were webbed and I had a gross case of cankles (I know, if Mark were not in these pictures you would probably think I swallowed him). I was miserable and huge (oh and keep in mind this was a week before I had her, therefore giving me plenty of time to pack on another 10 pounds of water weight and sink further into a state of depression!).

So here you go. Does this make you happy. Now stop the madness and the hate mail!


4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Selfishly, this does make me feel better.

Jessica said...

I didn't know they still let women go that far overdue! I was 3 weeks overdue (when I was born I mean), and I just think that was crazy. I had no idea there are still cruel doctors out there! You should have been induced 2 weeks earlier!

Andrea said...

I, too, now feel vindicated.

Monica said...

Thanks Amber, you just made all of your diligent baby having readers feel so much better. I have been a little behind on my blog reading, so I did not comment but I was thinking the same thing.