I have tubercles! (Montgomery’s tubercles. They’re sweat glands. Brett looked it up this morning.) They’re weird little bumps on my boobs. I’m so knocked up! Eek! I’m happy, though. Brett’s gloating in an I-told-you-so kind of way. He hasn’t doubted it for a moment.

Since I have a doctor’s appointment today, and they’ll probably be poking at my boobs, I decided to shave off those hairs in the shower this morning. While I was doing that little chore, I discovered these bumps all over my areolas. I got out, dried off, and showed them to Brett. He said, “Yeah, you’re supposed to get those.” So I went and looked at my breasts in the mirror; they’re covered with light blue lines too: veins supplying blood flow. My breasts at least are definitely pregnant.

I’ll get good news at the doc, and I’ll finally call my mom tonight. She’ll be stoked. I just don’t know why I’ve had to have cramping and bleeding — practically a full-on period. Aren’t you supposed to be period-free when you’re pregnant?

hCG = human chorionic gonadotropin, a hormone

On vegetarian moms and soy products: “A study published in the January 2000 issue of the British Journal of Urology indicated that vegetarians are five times more likely than nonvegetarians to give birth to boys with hypospadias, a condition where the urethra opens along the bottom surface of the penis rather than at the tip. The study authors speculate that the high phytoestrogen content of soy products — which can be especially prominent in a vegetarian diet — may interfere with a male baby’s developing reproductive system. (Phytoestrogens are chemicals that mimic the female hormone estrogen.)

“But vegetarian women, or those with a heavy soy diet, shouldn’t panic. “This is the only study to consider the role of diet in relation to male genital malformations. We need confirming evidence before becoming worried about the findings,” says Jean Golding, PhD, one author of the study and a research scientist at the University of Bristol, in England.”
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