17 Weeks

I started to feel movement this week. At least I hope it's movement otherwise I spent the better part of 15 minutes having a conversation with my bowels. I have yet to purchase a stitch of maternity clothing. A jerry-rigged rubberband is the only thing keeping my trousers up. A bump is slowly starting to emerge like I swallowed an entire cantaloupe. I'm still undecided about "belly" pictures. I'm leaning more toward the NO bare belly pictures because I have this small tendency to find them revolting and contrived. But it's early days yet and who knows what uncharted territories this pregnancy is going to take me.