Being pregnant is like a science experiment. You mix some ingredients together and there is a reaction. You can monitor the progress of your experiment to some extent but much of it is unseen.
The updates I get on my app tell me that our baby is developing reflexes right now and producing urine and storing it in its tiny bladder. Its ears have also moved into their normal positions and the eyes have transferred from the side of the head to the more human front of the face. All of this is awesome, and I realize that it’s an extremely important point in our lives….but I don’t think that I get it quite yet.
I’ve never been an overly emotional person but I thought I’d have more ‘oh man there is a person growing inside me!’ moments than I’ve had so far. Perhaps that will start to happen when I look more pregnant or can feel the baby move. Maybe it will start when we can see the baby tomorrow during the ultrasound. Or maybe it will happen when my hormones kick into even more of an overdrive than they have already (had my first cry fest the other night).
Maybe it won’t really hit me until after the baby is born and no one else tries to claim it.
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