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Feeling old and gross.  In the last year I’ve gone from 2 grey hairs to lots and lots.  And being pregnant is making me weird and lumpy and telletubby shaped and my skin is blotchy.  And my breasts and stomach are getting stretched out.  And I will never look 25, or even 30, again.

But then I remember that my paternal grandmother was 43 when she had her eighth (!?) child.  And her hair all went white and her teeth got so bad she had them all pulled out and got dentures.  And she was pregnant at my parents’ wedding and when my aunt was born, my grandmother’s neighbors asked why my parents didn’t “keep the baby” but instead had my grandmother take her.  And everyone thought my grandmother was actually her daughter’s grandmother so she started dying her hair brown.

So, it could be a lot worse.