People Become Very Brave Around Pregnant Ladies

I heard stories, before I was pregnant, about how people would go up to pregnant women

and feel their stomach or make comments like,

"You know what causes that, right?" (To a mother of 3) or

"It's a girl. I'm always right." (How exactly do you follow up with that?)

I've had a few questions that I ponder afterwards like,

"What do you a want?"

I know this is a common question, and while my first instinct is always to answer with the cliche,

"We just want a healthy baby"

(b/c ultimately that's all you really want),

I often answer with,

"We need some boys in our family."

I feel like if I say,"I want a boy" and I have a girl growing inside of me

that she'll feel neglected. I know that sounds silly,

but I want her to know from conception that she is wanted and loved no matter what she is.

If it IS a boy, then that's great too, b/c we really are outnumbered in our Neufeld clan

with 2 boys and 7 girls.

I haven't had anyone come up and start rubbing my midsection yet b/c ppl are still trying to internally figure out whether I've just put on 15 pounds in one specific location or if I really am growing something in there. 

I can see their wheels turning when they see me.

I often put them out of their misery and announce what the cause is of my growth.

To which they breathe a sigh of relief that there's not a mysterious tumor in there.

Or maybe they're disheartened that they didn't discover the next medical mystery.

I digress.

Yesterday, as I was running, there were some African American men washing a car near us.

After announcing that I was the only one not cheating

(we were supposed to run to the pole and back),

I told him, "And I'm the only one expecting!"

So, my next time around, he looked at me and asked,

"Is it a male child?"

I looked at him perplexed.

"Is it a boy?"

I explained that it was too early to tell just yet, but that question still makes me laugh.

It was like he was so convinced that it was a male.

And he was declaring, "It's a boy, isn't it?"

I actually look forward to the onslaught of questions I have yet to receive.

I think I'll work on my witty comebacks now.

In cased you missed my preggo pull-ups, here ya go...