About My Second Puberty

Do you remember puberty?

I sort of do.

I remember my mom and my aunt looking at my hips and my aunt saying "She's already getting stretch marks? Shame."

I didn't know what a stretch mark was or why I should be ashamed of it.

I remember having bigger boobs than everyone else.

I was always hairy, but boy my hair got out of control during puberty.

And I remember being disappointed because I wasn't growing any taller. And I never would. I'd be stuck at 5'2 forever.

____________

Hi, I'm Jenea, the author of this here blog.

I'm an American living in Dubai, in my 30s, and having a baby.

I'm married to a handsome Scottish man who I met in Beijing, China. Our life together has been incredible, and now we've got this wonderful baby to join our whirlwind of a fairytale.

My Second Puberty was launched to explore the weird world of pregnancy - that kind of feels like a second puberty. Bigger boobs, stretch marks, growing belly, weird bodily things happening, and much more that I don't know about yet because it's still early days.

I've challenged myself to write as many days in a row leading up to my delivery date, and beyond if I can keep it up. I think it'd be fantastic to look back on this time and read all the things that went through my head, that I experienced, and that I thought to be true, but were completely false.

I've just decided to share my journal with the world because there has to be someone else out there who can relate, right?

See you inside x