Some thoughts on the matter-

1) drawstring pants suck.

Believe it or not, they are a pain when you’re pregnant. This being because should the strings that hold up the fabric covering your butt get tangeled, you’re screwed. By this time I havnt been able to see my toes for three months, let alone something DIRECTLY under this mammoth of a child on my front end.

So you have two options a) wear the damn things with out tying them and pray that your ass alone is enough leverage to counteract gravity or b) elastic waistbands only.

(I’ll tell you that neither is a teriffic option and that “cracking people up” is just a part of the gig.)

And 2) one of the couples in our birthing class weren’t there last session and low-and-behold they had just gotten done birthing. Granted, she was 20 some days early, but nonetheless, it brings it home hard that our lil stinker fish could come at any time. I’m not planning on the kid being early (it doesn’t have a history of showing up on time – remember how many tests I took?...) but we are in our “birth month” when anything could happen.

The couple will be coming by our last class and let us know how their birth went, and I would assume, try and re-coup at least some of the cash they forked on a half used birthing class...