Comments on untanglingknots.com: Belly Confessions

I look at it this way...My whole purpose in life j...

2006-08-08T23:18:00.000-04:00

I look at it this way...

My whole purpose in life just may be to make other people feel better about themselves. And, I am GOOD at it!!!

It's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it.

After I lost my first baby (second trimester), I sometimes had a difficult time dealing with emotions of how the next baby would not be here if the first baby hadn't died.

I have never reconciled that.

Wouldn't trade my son in for anything, but I DO still have those feelings, 26 years later.

My body wasn't all that was changed.

My emotions still emote strange and sundry feelings.

They never really leave us, those offspring who go on before us. They have their ways of reminding us that no matter what, they were here and they were real.

I find that strangely comforting.

Have you ever read Jenny McCarthy's books?? I thin...

2006-08-08T16:50:00.000-04:00

Have you ever read Jenny McCarthy's books?? I think you would enjoy her writing style. Belly Laughs, Baby Laughs and Life Laughs. Check them out!!

Even with permission I can't hate you! You've ear...

2006-08-05T14:10:00.000-04:00

Even with permission I can't hate you! You've earned your hot body with your careful eating habits and running. You rock!

You will probably have the same kind of pregnancy ...

2006-08-05T09:36:00.000-04:00

You will probably have the same kind of pregnancy (minus the high risk part) this time around, too. I am pregnant with number 6 right now, and have had bascially the same kinds of pregnancy each time. If you didn't get heartburn, you were eating right to start with. None of that other stuff *has* to come with pregnancy.

When you have it easy, you do run the risk of being called a breeder, or someone who was made for childbirth. Something tells me you're in a position to appreciate that, though.

Well I think you are entitled to feel however you ...

2006-08-04T12:34:00.000-04:00

Well I think you are entitled to feel however you want. Given your circumstances I can see how you can not get past the trauma of the day Ava was born and passed away!

Karla I am so excited for you and cant wait to see this beautiful healthy baby at the end of this journey!

Hmmmm, I want to be insanely jealous of you, reall...

2006-08-04T12:17:00.000-04:00

Hmmmm, I want to be insanely jealous of you, really I do. However, given the circumstances, I suppose I am lucky. Perhaps you have given me the insight to overlook the awful things pregnancy has done to me and look at what I got from it. I might, might, even refrain from rubbing it in the faces of my kids one day that they did that to me...but I doubt it. Let's just hope that this time, not only do you get a stretch mark or two...but also a beautiful baby to match!

I was already not thin when I got pregnant, so I h...

2006-08-04T11:25:00.000-04:00

I was already not thin when I got pregnant, so I had no issues whatsoever with my body.

I was lucky enough to have never vomited or any of the other symptoms you mentioned, either.

I was high risk though, so I guess it made up for the lack of all that.

Would have rather had some pregnancy mask than worrying.