Coincidence, or Something Else?

First and foremost, Happy Easter. It's allegedly the earliest Easter "ever" and it will not be this early again for 60 years.

So today at Easter I learned the second troubling thing I have in common with Grandma Jane in my pregnancy with the Little Man. The first thing is that I had to have a root canal, and she did too when Uncle Eric was upon us. That would have been good information to have when we decided to virtually rid ourselves of dental insurance in December (I decision we will rectify during our "life changing event" in May) because "my mouth feels fine, how is yours?" was not a good decision making process.

The second thing is kind of funny actually. I don't know how many of you readers are familiar with the Linea Nigra, which is this line that runs from the sternum all the way down to....and actually everyone has but when you are pregnant there is some pigmenting or something that goes on that makes it show up. Usually it's just white and blends in on those of us who are super fair skinned. Anyways, as that emerged on my belly as it grew, I started to notice that my belly button seemed to be shifting to the right ever so slightly. As the weeks have continued to add up (this is day one of week 35 for those of you keeping score at home) I've noticed that it wasn't that it seemed to be shifting. It flat out moved. In fact it's relocated like a full half inch to the right.

Well today future Aunt in Law Jennie was admiring my girth and I think GJ might have caught a glimpse and I heard her mutter something about her belly button having moved and it never went back. I was stunned. I had mentioned this to childbirth class when we split up into mom and dad groups, and I was the only one who was having this happen. I mentioned the root canal thing and again, I was the only who who was having this happen. Apparently the Zundel/Anhold female gene leads to bad teeth and mobile belly buttons during pregnancy. What next I wonder...

"Yeah, I'm a legend. You know, they call me the cautionary whale."