Week 26 - Top Ten List: You know you’re pregnant when…

You know you’re pregnant when… 

1.  Your button flies off your spring jacket (Subway commercial style).  And bending over to pick it up almost doesn’t even seem worth the effort.
2. You realize after going to the bathroom for the 10^th time in 4 hours at work that you haven’t zipped your fly in 3 months – because maternity pants don’t HAVE flys (or have fake ones)!
3. Your biggest concern every morning is having enough food stashed in your desk or work fridge to last you through the day.
4. You find yourself coming out of a gas station at lunch with a roll of Tums, Hot Tamales, and a Pepsi Freeze, and think, one of these has GOT to either wake me up or soothe my heartburn, and I’m willing to take my chances!
5.  You cry watching almost every show on TV, including but not limited to: The Office (come on, Michael is leaving!), Bethanny Getting Married, Pregnant in Heels, the local news, and several commercials I won’t mention to save my dignity.
6. You start surveying your friends with kids – do YOU practice the 5 S’s?  (Swaddling, side/stomach positioning in parents' arms, shushing, swinging, and sucking)
7. EVERY time you hang out with anyone with kids it turns into a Morse Interview session and only ends when we’ve crossed the line into TMI-land, or when you are sufficiently terrified of what is to come.
8. You realize your 3-story office has not one elevator, but TWO!  And that you are now the #1 customer.
9. You have to do laundry religiously every week so that you can wear one of your five pairs of maternity pants.  (Because they are NOT fun to shop for!)
10. You are DYING for warmer weather so you can expand your wardrobe options to waist-free dresses and capris!