31 Weeks

Random stories about Brooke.....

1) At our first birthing class last week, one of the activities was to break up into groups of 5 couples and come up with a list of things we have in common. One woman in our group asked, "who's planning on delivering naturally?"...and of course everyone except Brooke raised their hand. We felt like we were in the scene of Baby Mama when the teacher asks everyone pretty much the same question:

"How many of you are planning on doing natural child birth?
.....that's a good show of hands. You're all so great!

How many of you are planning on using toxic western medications
to drug your baby for your own selfish comfort?"

If you haven't seen the movie, here's a clip.

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2) Pregnancy has turned Brooke's brain to mush....
One night last week Brooke and I took two baskets of clothes to the laundry room. It was fairly crowded, so we decided to wash only one of the baskets. The next morning I went downstairs to find that Brooke had neatly folded the entire basket of dirty laundry.

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3) In the middle months of pregnancy, Brooke could sense people in the neighboring laboratories were staring at her belly, but no one would ever say anything. She would frequently come home and say "they all think I'm just putting on weight". It wasn't until around 28 weeks that people would finally question Brooke about the pregnancy. Part of me wants to defend these people. After all, Brooke does like to wear frumpy clothing at work, plus it's always better to err on the safe side when suggesting someone is pregnant. Another part of me thinks that they're all blind. You've seen the pictures....Brooke looked like she was smuggling a cantaloupe at 28 weeks.
She would never really do it, but I know Brooke fantasizes about responding to their late inquiries with a blank stare and a "huh? what are you talking about?" just to give them scare.