Belly Billboard; Or, Another Pregnancy Milestone

Here's one way to cover the costs of a new baby: sell advertising space on your burgeoning belly.

Particularly when you've just made the magic metre mark - the full 100cm around the middle.

Have also developed sausage fingers and feet, and have had to ease off my ring with liquid detergent. My left hand feels naked now, and the tan mark only serves to remind me how long that ring has been there and how keenly its absence is felt.

One more week of work, and then it's time to just focus on getting ready. Which probably means a frenzy of eleventh-hour shopping and packing and rearranging furniture. Just like going on a trip.