Fat Face

Last week I was talking to one of the fertile four and she was saying how she'd have "Fat Face" when she would have to get her driver's license photo taken as she'll be into her third trimester when the time comes. The thought then occurs to me that I'll not only be in the third trimester when my 29th birthday rolls around, but I'll be 38 weeks by that point. So I look at a lot of pictures of preggos I know when they are very pregnant, and yes most of them do have noticeably fuller faces than they normally do. Not all of them do though, there are a few who's faces don't look much different.

This past weekend I went searching for pictures of my mother where she is clearly pregnant. Out of all the family albums I found just one photo of her pregnant. She was pregnant with me (I was her third and last baby) and it was about a week before she had me, so she was just past 38 weeks pregnant. Her face didn't really look fuller. Maybe I too shall escape "Fat Face." That is the good news. The bad news, while her face didn't expand, her rear did. She said it happened each time she was pregnant. Oh well.... It will be worth it, no matter where I get fatter.

Now speaking of pictures, last fall when I went through all of John's family pictures for a project I was doing, I also only found one picture of his mother undeniably pregnant. It was while she was pregnant with her first, Jimmy. Was it common for women to not have pictures taken when pregnant back then? I mean there are pictures all around that time frame of other people at family events and stuff, but I could only find one of my mother and one of his mother with a noticeable baby bump. Even if I do just look big and fat, I will have pictures of myself pregnant and I will save them and be able to show them to my children and say "There you are, right in there."