"You know you have to be 18 to buy dry ice, right?" and other favorite comments as of late...

Well, you know you reach the un-cute stage of pregnancy, when friends, family, and strangers start saying things like:

There's only one baby in there?

Wow! You look like you are about to pop!

Well, you sure carry big, don't you?

Any day now...right?

Are you sure you're not carrying a boy. It looks like you have a basketball in there. It has to be a boy.

You must be ready to be done.

Wow! Has it been THAT long since I've seen you? You're huge!

Man, that bun has gotta be baked by now! How much longer?

Oh, look at your swollen ankles!

So are you just dying to have that baby or what?

You're past THE point, aren't you?

Let's compare which is bigger you or the watermelon.

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I have actually been able to enjoy most of the comments like these--especially in retrospect.  And there have been a few strangers who actually managed to say something in regards to having a baby without referencing one of pregnancy's physical downfalls.  One lady at the grocery store came up to me and said, "I'm sorry, I just have to tell you--you are the cutest pregnant lady, and you are just glowing! Enjoy it while you can!" Another one of my favorites was a lady in an elevator who simply said, "Oh, congratulations on the baby!"

So, I say to the world--bring on the comments--you only have a short time left to judge the size and shape of my stomach without receiving a snide comment or a sneer in return. Also--if there's some chance that you could explode all your opinions about my body rather than my soon to be born little girl, that would be fabulous.  I hear the comments only get worse once your baby's actually here (which, of course can't be soon enough, because yes--I'm about to pop, past THE point, AND am bigger than a lot of watermelons).

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NESTING, as defined by the internet: "Around the fifth month of pregnancy, the "nesting" instinct can set in. This is an uncontrollable urge to clean one's house brought on by a desire to prepare a nest for the new baby, to tie up loose ends of old projects and to organize your world."

etsy seller

Does baking a 7 pound ham for just Christian and I to eat count as a sign that I'm nesting? How about bringing home lots of free stuff (2 couches, a piano, 4 chairs, a dresser, 3 bookshelves, and a bench) in the past month? I don't really think so...but I'm hoping for signs of this instinctive mother-to-be nesting phase...I just don't feel anything close to it yet.  I only see a desperate mama bird collecting other people's throw-aways and cooking way too much food for dinner (stuff I'm likely to do at any given time in my life). The only uncontrollable urge I have is...nothing. I have an urge to do nothing.

I think nesting would be more natural for me, if all I had to do was build an actual nest!! Fitting pieces of twigs together sounds like a breeze! I've never really been an organizer, or very particular about how I clean stuff, and I don't really make things pretty. I'm not careful when I fold clothes, and I rarely iron anything. I also have a bad habit of forgetting where things go...or not even assigning things a place to begin with. I have an entire room of "projects" that need all of those things, and worst of all, I don't really mind living in this chaos!

And THAT is why I am really counting on this nesting instinct to kick in--to bring some type of method to my madness. And for Christian's sake (can you even imagine what it's like living with me??), I hope it's sooner rather than later.