Last night, a classmate told me she was three months pregnant, and I immediately looked at her mid-section.
That's not the first place most guys would look.
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Tom Scola - May 11, 2005 6:37:08 am PDT #3217 of 10001
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sarameg - May 11, 2005 6:38:04 am PDT #3218 of 10001
Oh god, I did the same thing not two weeks ago, Jesse. Partly because the woman in question is so teeny-I think she might reach my shoulder-and wears sleek clothes , I couldn't believe I hadn't noticed.
It was noticeable. Really noticeable. And yet....
She's already looking very pregnant and isn't due until October. Her husband is almost 6'6", so I'm guessing it isn't going to be a teenysized baby.
Cashmere - May 11, 2005 6:41:09 am PDT #3219 of 10001
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That's not the first place most guys would look.
Men who've been through the pregnancy thing with a partner are usually looking to see if the boobie fairy has visited.
sarameg, is this her first baby? Second babies tend to show sooner. And with teeny women, they tend to show more, because they have not place to hide it. I don't think I looked pregnant until 7 months.
Jesse - May 11, 2005 6:43:37 am PDT #3220 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It was noticeable. Really noticeable. And yet....
Oh, I'd never notice either. Honestly, I just don't inspect people's bodies that much. The classmate was actually looking a little pudgy in the middle, but just like she ate a lot of fast food during finals or something.
Oh! And she's a great example of the fun non-ethnically-appropriate name thing. She hyphenated her last name, so she has one short latino name (her own) and one long Finnish name (her husband's).
sarameg - May 11, 2005 6:43:52 am PDT #3221 of 10001
It is her first and really, there is nowhere else on her for it to go but out.
sarameg - May 11, 2005 6:47:10 am PDT #3222 of 10001
Oh & that tall thin coworker (in a different building) who I'd wondered if she might be pregnant at the christmas party because she was wearing a loose sweater that wasn't her usual style? Was. I figured this out when she came back from her 3 month maternity leave. In march.
Observant, I am not.
§ ita § - May 11, 2005 6:52:53 am PDT #3223 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Some chick at work tugged on my skirt in the caf this morning. Skirt goes to Goodwill. Not because she touched it, but because it looked like she had to. The lining is possessed.
flea - May 11, 2005 6:54:32 am PDT #3224 of 10001
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What you cannot do when someone announces her pregnancy is PAT her stomach. Luckily I have a frosty New England reserve, or so I am told, and no stranger ever laid a hand on my belly.
Jesse - May 11, 2005 6:56:05 am PDT #3225 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Dudes, if there is one thing I would never do, it is pat someone's stomach! Ew.
Edit: But I am glad to know that my anti-hug vibes should carry through into anti-belly touch vibes if I ever get pregnant.
§ ita § - May 11, 2005 6:59:24 am PDT #3226 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
if there is one thing I would never do, it is pat someone's stomach! Ew.
I've never patted a pregnant belly. I have cupped one or two, though. But I'd never do it to someone I hadn't already, say, hugged. Hugged a bunch of times, too.
I'd pat Jesse's tummy lots.