Contemplating My Naval…Literally!

What am I contemplating exactly?

Well, maybe it’s not so much contemplating but lamenting the loss of my belly button I knew that pregnancy would cause strange things to happen to me, but I seem to be rather preoccupied with the fact that my belly button is no longer in the right place. What is worse is that it is ever so slowly becoming an outie. Not that there is anything wrong with having an outie, but I have been an innie my whole life and this experience is rather unnerving. Logically I knew it would happen eventually, but knowing it and having it happen are two completely different things.

Who knew that something as strange and insignificant as this (when compared to actually having a child grow inside me) would disturb me so much. Maybe it is my body’s way of having me deal with the stress of pregnancy, besides the TMJ Perhaps my brain knows that I can’t deal with some of the more comman issues, such as is my child healthy, will I be a good mother, what is labor going to be like, etc. Instead, my brain has chosen to focus on something small and silly; something it knows I can handle.

For whatever reason, I seem to be very fixated on the loss of my belly button as I knew it. I knew I wasn’t completely crazy when I saw an advertisement for these: Popper Stoppers. Apparently at least a few other pregnant women have contemplated their naval as well

For me, it has become an obsession. Just ask Jonathan, I ask him almost every day if it is shallower than it was the day before. Oh well, at least I am entertaining

While I’m not quite in need of the popper stoppers yet, that day is fast approaching. So, if you see around and I look deep in thought, I’m probably just contemplating my navel. And whatever you do, do not ask how the belly button thing is going or I’m liable to introduce you to the latest fashion in popper stoppers

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