Wowsers, I’m suddenly getting feeling back in my belly button.

You see, I have always had a very sensitive belly button. To the point where I think I may have kicked my husband a time or two early on in our relationship, when he thought it was cute to stick his finger in my belly button just to “tickle” me. It wasn’t so much a tickle as a NEVER DO THAT AGAIN.

When I got pregnant I was a little concerned about this sensitivity of mine, because if it was this bad now, how bad was it going to get?? People would warn me that it was going to hurt later. I waited for it.

And instead, my belly button went numb. And I mean completely numb. It nearly popped at the end (but not quite), and I would poke it and play with it. It amused me. I could wiggle it and there were no shooting pains, no feeling like a bug was crawling up my tailbone, nothing.

A week or two ago Den was poking at my belly button and mentioned that I still didn’t jump when he did it. I said, “Did what?” Ummm, yeah, so it was still quite numb and I hadn’t even known he’d poked me.

So it was rather a shock when just now I was trying to clean out the belly button (it’s a full innie again) and YOW. Felt like I’d just stabbed myself right through my midsection. It’s seriously weird, am I freak or are there other people who get these horrible shooting pains when trying to clean their belly button?

Well that’s one thing back to normal. Now if my belly button could have a little chat with my face, my hair, my stomach muscles, and possibly my uterus. (Hello AF? It’s been 9 weeks now. I won’t be sad when you come… I just want to get started, okay?) Of course the one thing that’s back to normal is the one thing I would happily have done without!