Nothing but a bump

It's so strange. As soon as you become pregnant, or rather I should say as soon as your pregnancy begins to show, people stop regarding you as a person and start regarding you first and foremost as a pregnant person. The things that people would normally notice about you fade away and the pregnancy is the only thing that defines you. Today I had my leaving morning tea at work and received a figurine of a pregnant woman. A rather lovely one, but still, I wonder what to do with it in six or so weeks when I am no longer pregnant. Or even now, when I am. It seems everyone else is much caught up in the "magic" of pregnancy than I am. For me it has been very much a slow physical grind.