Bellamy is 3! It's been a very busy week, filled with family, friends, food, and even the police (what!?!) but all is well and I am happily exhausted.
Oddly enough, I read some prego email I got last week about the top twenty pregnancy fears most women have,which ranged from having a c section, to lagging sex lives, to gaining too much weight. Something about the list bothered me...and it struck me today while I was at work. There was no mention of stillbirth. A c section is scarier than giving birth to a seven pound corpse??
PLEASE. Not that I want to talk about it all the time and scare the shit out of preggos around the world, but I definitely feel as though it's something that is never ever mentioned ever, until it happens to you. Maybe if more attention was placed on kick counts, 30,000 fetuses wouldn't die in utero in the US every year and women wouldn't have to be asked questions like "do you want an autopsy?" and "are you going to bury or cremate?" as they are in the process of giving birth to the child in question.
Maybe if people were more open about it, awareness would increase, and more research could be done to try and find out how to stop it from happening. Just saying.
Other than that, I am eagerly awaiting my next ultrasound (August 15th!) to find out this little squirts gender. The suspense is torture! Mama wants to know what's goings on in there.
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