Compare & Contrast

The day before I was induced to give birth to Owen and William at 37 weeks, my mum took pictures of me in an itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny, blue, green and yellow patterned bikini. I don't think I ever published the photo results on the blog, but I would often look at them over the course of the next three years and marvel at what my body had done in order to produce my gorgeous children. I was huge! How can skin stretch like that? How on earth did I breathe when my lungs must have been so compressed? The mind boggles.

I'm now 36 weeks pregnant with my third child and am once more amazed at the human body and the whole process of growing a child. And growing is the operative word, let me tell you. Although I don't feel quite as huge as I did with the twins, its still quite hard to adjust to the basketball strapped to the front of my body. I'm assuming that sometime in the next three weeks, I'm going to go into labour and we're going to have a little girl in the house. That idea is also sill taking some getting used to, but I don't think we could be any more prepared than we are at this point. I've packed my hospital bag, figured out who to call in the middle of the night to come look after the big-brothers-to-be (this would be you, Amber!) and spoken at great length to those boys about what will happen when their baby sister decides she's ready to meet them. So really, all that was left to do was take more photos.

Photos on the left are the twin bump. Photos on the right are the girl bump.

If anyone makes a mocking comment, you're dead meat.

Note how Jack managed to position himself in exactly the same pose as well. He wanted some continuity for the shots too.

I should add that I have my 36 week appointment on Monday and will hopefully find out if my daughter is still breech (I've been feeling a lot of kicking at the lower end of my bump, so I think she probably is), and if that then means I will be going to the hospital any time soon to have her turned. If that is the case, I'll probably also be induced at the same time. I have no idea what the timeline is for any of this (I have lots of questions for my OB on Monday), but I'll keep you posted as to what's happening and if this means we're going to have a newborn sooner rather than later!