Sympathetic pregnancy? Or is Jarad just eating at McDonalds a lot?

As you can clearly see, Jarad's breasts and belly grew and now look much like those of a pregnant woman. He is also suffering from spotty memory issues, similar to those experienced by many pregnant women.  Now at our apartment, things go missing everyday.  Ordinarily, upon misplacing a library CD that I know was last seen in this apartment, I might think to myself, "I must have put it somewhere that it definitely doesn't belong when I wasn't paying attention".  (I currently have a higher tendency to put utensils in the desk drawers, or pens in the refrigerator.)  But now I have to wonder, could Jarad have done something strange with the missing CD? He claims to know nothing, but with his "pregnancy brain" like symptoms you never can be too sure.

Couvade Syndrome, also known as Sympathetic Pregnancy is a common condition of people living close to pregnant women. This, however, includes mainly the behavioral and internal pregnancy symptoms, such as labor pains, food cravings and postpartum depression. So it does not account for changes in physical appearance.  Thus, I have two theories to explain what you see in this picture.

Theory 1: Jarad has been eating at McDonalds a lot. The hormones and chemicals in their food increased his estrogen hormone levels causing his body to develop more feminine features and a gut.

Theory 2: Jarad is experiencing a more advanced version of Sympathetic Pregnancy. He's taking the syndrome to a new level never seen before by humans. Who knows, he may actually give birth too.

When is baby coming?

I finally have the sensation of carrying a light bowling ball in my belly. I think that is good news on the development front.

For a while, even though I could see that my belly was bigger, I couldn't actually feel it protruding.  I would often find myself getting stuck in spaces that I used to fit through.  When Jarad and I would hug I would think to myself, "why is he sticking out his belly at me?".  Then I would remember my body actually existed several inches beyond where it used to. But times are changing and with it my sensory perception.  Hopefully this means I won't get stuck between the doors of bathroom stalls any more.

Now that I am starting to feel more of a load I think it is time we let the guessing game begin.  When do YOU think baby is coming?

Guesses:
Talia: December 4th.
Jarad: December 16th.

Nesting

According to the charts I'm rounding week 34, which roughly gives us another month or two until baby arrives at our front door. How perfect! Oh yeah, there's that birth thing we have to do...

Actually, I'm looking forward to giving birth. But lets focus on these darn nesting tendencies. Now when I watched a video a month or two ago that followed several couples through pregnancy and birth, I laughed at the woman who kept re-folding and re-organizing her baby clothes. "Ha", I thought, "I'm definitely not going to do that!"

Well folks, I admit it. I have re-organized our baby clothes several times and I am always looking for an excuse to count them, look at them, smell them, hang them on the walls, etc. At least I finally have them organized appropriately. The top drawer has all the smaller clothes we will use first and the bottom drawer has the bigger clothes. Eh, eh...great idea huh? No? Bad idea? You're right I'll go re-organize them right now.

I'm not sure if I'm doing anything else that might be considered "nesting" because this overwhelming urge to prepare as if the baby will be here tomorrow feels so normal.

Does anybody else have any fun "nesting" stories?

P.S. More pictures are coming soon.