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Everyone I know is pregnant, was pregnant, or will/wont be pregnant soon. And even though I am pregnant too, I feel a little left out. Maybe that is because I am not focusing so much on my own pregnancy. They are such delicate things. I think most of us are afraid to look directly at a pregnancy for fear that, like the black dots that swim in you eyes, they will disappear upon close inspection. Oddly it is not all that different once you have the real and present baby. When Nyssa was an infant she was such a perfect and pure thing (original sin is a total piece of shit, and teh idea of it is probably responsible for a lot of negative things in this world...I am pretty sure Nyssa has yet to sin... which is not to say she's not a demanding handful.) I was terrified of tainting her and convinced that she could decide in a snap that she was done with me. But my own parents are not that easy to get rid of, so how could I be?
What I am getting at, poorly, is that there are so many myths and mores that it is almost impossible to have a true conversation about pregnancy, birth, or childing. We all talk at angles and in code and I guess maybe it is necessary, and I guess maybe it is sometimes infuriating. Everyone I know is pregnant, was pregnant, or will/wont be pregnant soon, and some of them wont talk about getting pregnant or not, about their births, what sex it might be, or what name they are going to give it, there are hundreds of things people wont talk about, but they'll read loads of books that don't talk about it either.

For those of you unfamiliar, this is what pregnancy (and progeny) look like:



What? No nudity yet?

Here is Nyssa with her best friend (and arranged marriage partner) Baby Jack Frohnauer. This is an older photo, but they got to spend Friday and Saturday together and had a lovely time.



Even Annie is thinking about babies: