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Josie
Aunt Mimi and Dean both offered to go with me to my check-up with my obstetrician, but I declined. After all, I needed to get used to doing things like this on my own. Silently amending my thought, I decided that I wasn’t actually alone… I had Little Bit with me.
Two women and their doting significant others were sitting in the waiting room of Dr. Wilkes’ office. Both women appeared to have swallowed fully-inflated basketballs. I couldn’t help but wonder if I would soon look like that. Absently rubbing a hand over my own slightly protruding belly, I wondered if it was even possible for my skin to stretch that much. It seemed like it would rip from the strain. Visibly wincing, I tried to distract myself from that horrific thought by flipping through the old, well-worn People mag
