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radegundResult from that blood test on Monday morning: I do not have gestational diabetes. Yay! Of course, now I feel entirely justified in having whined and bitched so much about my sixteen-hour fast, as it was officially All For Nothing.
I encountered a curious little gulf in understanding yesterday. I was chatting to one of my fellow altos before choir, and mentioned (looking down at my belly) that I was starting to feel rather large. Later, at rehearsal, she and I were talking to our neighbour, and she paraphrased me as having said I felt "fat" - and it was evident that she had heard my statement as negative, though in fact, it had incorporated an unspoken "finally! it's great!". At break time, someone else told me I was looking "very pregnant" - and then apologised for drawing attention to it. (I responded that at 30 weeks, I bloody ought to be looking pregnant, and we laughed...)
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. It's just that for me, "pregnant-large" (cf. "great with child", "taobhthrom torrach", etc.) is entirely separate from "fat". Now, I acknowledge that I've never had to deal with being outside a socially "acceptable" weight range, so my perspective is presumably simplistic. Also, I'm not really interrogating my belief that my objection to the term "fat" springs not from a socialised desire to avoid the negative label but rather from its inaccuracy (see under: my GP is concerned that I'm not gaining enough weight, which, as the foetus appears to be developing normally, means that I may in a sense have "lost" weight so far this pregnancy; see also under: it's a gravid uterus, actually, not adipose tissue). But "I feel fat" isn't what I said, and I find it sad that some (many?) people can't seem to avoid plugging the pregnant shape into default body-image assumptions.
For the record, in case you were wondering, I'm totally in love with my current shape and am greatly looking forward to my increasing curvaliciousness over the next couple of months. I keep catching sight of my profile in mirrors and windows and getting the warm-fuzzies. I may try to be more explicitly positive about it in future conversations.
I encountered a curious little gulf in understanding yesterday. I was chatting to one of my fellow altos before choir, and mentioned (looking down at my belly) that I was starting to feel rather large. Later, at rehearsal, she and I were talking to our neighbour, and she paraphrased me as having said I felt "fat" - and it was evident that she had heard my statement as negative, though in fact, it had incorporated an unspoken "finally! it's great!". At break time, someone else told me I was looking "very pregnant" - and then apologised for drawing attention to it. (I responded that at 30 weeks, I bloody ought to be looking pregnant, and we laughed...)
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. It's just that for me, "pregnant-large" (cf. "great with child", "taobhthrom torrach", etc.) is entirely separate from "fat". Now, I acknowledge that I've never had to deal with being outside a socially "acceptable" weight range, so my perspective is presumably simplistic. Also, I'm not really interrogating my belief that my objection to the term "fat" springs not from a socialised desire to avoid the negative label but rather from its inaccuracy (see under: my GP is concerned that I'm not gaining enough weight, which, as the foetus appears to be developing normally, means that I may in a sense have "lost" weight so far this pregnancy; see also under: it's a gravid uterus, actually, not adipose tissue). But "I feel fat" isn't what I said, and I find it sad that some (many?) people can't seem to avoid plugging the pregnant shape into default body-image assumptions.
For the record, in case you were wondering, I'm totally in love with my current shape and am greatly looking forward to my increasing curvaliciousness over the next couple of months. I keep catching sight of my profile in mirrors and windows and getting the warm-fuzzies. I may try to be more explicitly positive about it in future conversations.
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Date: 2007-10-04 10:04 pm (UTC)We may already have had this conversation. Don't mind me. Got enough clothes?
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Date: 2007-10-05 08:57 pm (UTC)Many times :-) It bears repeating.
Got enough clothes?
Not really - most of what I have is (a) summery or (b) getting tight. Tried to rectify this in H&M (in the Dundrum Nth Circle of Hell) this morning, but their autumn stock was fairly drab. Scored 2 x dark trousers, 1 x RED top. I'll be hitting the Dublin 2 maternity-clothes circuit next week, I reckon.
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Date: 2007-10-07 04:42 am (UTC)30 week already?