“Your baby’s due when?” …sigh… Yes, I’m due to pop late August of ‘08, that’s right, I’m the first pregnant woman in history to have a baby born that time of year, the first woman to be stuck being hugely pregnant mid-Summer, the first - a pioneer if you will.

I can’t tell you how many people have ‘warned’ me (if you could call it that) from the moment I mentioned that I was pregnant and uttered my due date, “You will be miserable!” Gee, thanks, or perhaps I should say, Wow that’s helpful I’ll consider that. I was feeling rather determined back in April when it was still cold and I could hide the belly underneath a decent amount of layers, miserable ha! I’ll show them, I’ll be fine, sure I’ll be much larger and the weather will be much hotter but criminy, I’m NOT the first woman to be big and preggo through the long hot summer and I’m sure there are bigger women in hotter areas of the world that have endured worse.  read more »