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At 31 weeks of pregnancy, I've become a little obsessed with my belly button. As far as I can remember, it never stuck out when I was pregnant with Riley, but this time around there's a definite . . . protrusion. Not the belly button itself, which is stretched flat and taut like the straining top of a balloon (this is skin that has never seen the light of day before, and I can't stop poking it: so smooth! So weirdly furled! So incredibly clean and lint-free, for the first time ever!), but the-oh, what do you call it? The flesh above the belly button area. The . . . hood? (God, that sounds wrong.)
My profile, which resembles the capital letter B these days, now has a strange little nubbin appearing mid-belly. It's hidden if I wear more than one layer, but otherwise my navel pokes out through my shirt like Baby's First Periscope. It's oddly embarrassing, in a way I find hard to explain. Maybe it's that it seems too intimate: this normally-hidden body part, now rudely lunging outward.
The belly hood also ever-so-slightly extends the outermost perimeter of my personal space, which is the last thing I need. This extra quarter inch could mean the difference between sliding past a fellow grocery shopper in an unobtrusive manner-and physically gliding my belly along the back of their coat like I'm trying to cop a feel.
Ah, pregnancy. Gives a whole new meaning to navel-gazing, really. So tell me: did your belly button poke out towards the end of your pregnancy, or did it stay politely within the confines of your stomach?
My profile, which resembles the capital letter B these days, now has a strange little nubbin appearing mid-belly. It's hidden if I wear more than one layer, but otherwise my navel pokes out through my shirt like Baby's First Periscope. It's oddly embarrassing, in a way I find hard to explain. Maybe it's that it seems too intimate: this normally-hidden body part, now rudely lunging outward.
The belly hood also ever-so-slightly extends the outermost perimeter of my personal space, which is the last thing I need. This extra quarter inch could mean the difference between sliding past a fellow grocery shopper in an unobtrusive manner-and physically gliding my belly along the back of their coat like I'm trying to cop a feel.
Ah, pregnancy. Gives a whole new meaning to navel-gazing, really. So tell me: did your belly button poke out towards the end of your pregnancy, or did it stay politely within the confines of your stomach?
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12-16-2007 @ 11:24AM
Michelle said...With my first pregnancy I really did feel the belly button was a turkey timer because it popped the day I went into labor. This time I noticed it doing the same thing yours is doing (although I failed to come up with words quite so wonderfully descriptive as "belly hood"). In other words, my bb is definitely behaving in an unruly manner and has no respect for anyone's personal space.
You look fantastic, by the way! :)
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12-16-2007 @ 11:31AM
divrchk said...Mine never popped but it definitely was flat with a little of the edges sticking up.
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12-16-2007 @ 12:44PM
Di said...Oh, I remember the belly button! I decided it sort of looked like an eyelid, and probably because it freaked out The Husband, I referred to it as "The Eye of Sauron" But we're geek like that.
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12-16-2007 @ 12:25PM
Anji said...My belly button popped out somewhere around the 6 month mark (I was huge, ate way more than 'for two' and my son ended up 9lb 10oz so it was quite early).
I always thought it made my tum look very much like a third breast, with the belly button forming the nipple. It made people quite uncomfortable when I mentioned it though, no idea why! ;oP
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12-16-2007 @ 12:46PM
Mary O said...My belly button popped up really early during both of my pregnancies. From like seven months on it was just sticking way out there!
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12-16-2007 @ 6:04PM
Melissa said...Towards the "end" of my pregnancy? Mine popped out at 20 weeks! I'm 27 weeks now and the outie adds another not-needed centimeter or so to my enormous girth.
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12-16-2007 @ 10:57PM
samantha jo campen said...I'm almost 24 weeks and my belly button is taught, like you mentioned, but not sticking out YET. We're on Belly Button Watch because I just know it's going to happen in the next month or so. And I, too, rub it all the time because it *is* so freaking smooth!
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12-17-2007 @ 10:46AM
akinvt said...My belly button popped! One day I was standing at the copier and my young, single, male coworker walked up to me and asked if that was my belly button protruding through my shirt. I hadn't thought it was quite that obvious, boy was I wrong!
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12-17-2007 @ 11:23AM
Ginitag said...Oooooh yeah, It happened with my first pregnancy and also with my second. I don't htink my belly button had really gone back to normal after the first time anyway (not that there was much time between the two pregnancies, Nicholas was only 8 months old when I got pregnant with Sebastian). I know what you mean about it looking and feeling weird, at least yours is a slight protrusion...my belly button looked like a NIPPLE on a huge BREAST. It was so disgusting looking (to me) that I would but a band aid on it to keep it down...ah the joys of pregnancy....
GG
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12-17-2007 @ 1:41PM
biscuit said...I'm 35 weeks + my BB hasn't popped out. I doubt it will. It's stretched out to the max, nothing left to stick out. I like how it's so easy to clean.
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