Dear pregnant ones,

I am so very sorry to any of you if I ever made comment on your belly. Whether it was to say that you have ‘really popped’ or you were ‘really showing now’, I’m sorry.

As a current pregnant woman myself I am so exhausted by all the comments on my ever expanding stomach. Believe me when I say, I know I have popped, I know my belly is growing, and I know I still have 10 weeks to go. I especially don’t need to hear that I am ‘spreading’ or ‘loosing my curves’ as I can’t really see much past my swelling belly so I thought I was just kind of the same, with a baby in me.

I am sorry that I had completely forgotten what feels like to have every second person comment on your growing girth, while every third mentions the lack thereof. I seem to have one person ask me how long I have to go, then widen their eyes when I say 10 weeks, while the next tells me how small and ‘compact’ I am. One person will tell me I look like I’m having a girl as I’m carrying around my hips, then the next will say I’m having a boy, because I’m carrying out front.

We can feel the stretching of stomach muscles, so we know it is increasing in size, and wouldn’t we hope that it was getting bigger? As the baby grows, so will we? Isn’t it kind of obvious that we are growing, and if we weren’t, shouldn’t we be worried?

I really hope that to most of you pregnant ones I just said ‘You look beautiful’ and promise from this moment on that is the only comment I will ever make. I know I had forgotten because I hadn’t been pregnant in over 9 years, or before that not at all, but I swear on my growing pregnant belly that from now on you will simply receive a smile, and the honest, heartfelt words of ‘Your body is amazing’.

PS for anyone who would like to tell me I look beautiful, or my body is amazing, these comments will be welcomed with a hug, any other words on my body please refrain from sharing.

Alicia xxx