I think part of being a woman is having an intricate network of internal paranoia. By internal I mean only our BFFs and significant others truly know how deep it goes. They see all of the parts of us. For the sake of illustrating my point, I will allow a brief glimpse into my internal paranoia factory. First I will simply tell you the 2 simple ingredients that it took to bake today's paranoia cake: my sons strange eye color and one egg. Now here's the recipe.
It all started yesterday when I realized Bishops eye color hadn't changed in a long time. He was born with blue eyes and around 4 months he got this brown patch on his left eye. I just assumed his eye color was changing because neither of us has blue eyes and I don't know of anyone in our family with blue eyes. They never changed, they're still like that. Although now his eyes just look grey. So I looked it up on the internets and it's called sectoral heterochromia. The most likely explanation is just some weird genetics going on. However, one of the rare explanations for any type of heterochromia is chimerism. That's where 2 separate fetuses fuse together very early in development and you end up with one seemingly normal person with 2 sets of DNA. My first thought was if that's true, I could possibly have twins in the future (which is scary).
Of course my rational brain remind me that this is very unlikely and my son is not a chimera. But now I just happen to be thinking about the possibility of having twins and how hard that would be, etc.
Then the final nail in the paranoia coffin: I was making eggs this morning and I cracked open the second one and there was 2 yokes in it! My first thought was "OMG, this egg is twins, is God trying to tell me something?!"
Then my rational brain enters the room and says "you're not even pregnant.... why are you worrying about fictional babies?"
The answer: because that's what women do, worry about fictional scenarios. We are prepared for ALL OF THE THINGS!
It all started yesterday when I realized Bishops eye color hadn't changed in a long time. He was born with blue eyes and around 4 months he got this brown patch on his left eye. I just assumed his eye color was changing because neither of us has blue eyes and I don't know of anyone in our family with blue eyes. They never changed, they're still like that. Although now his eyes just look grey. So I looked it up on the internets and it's called sectoral heterochromia. The most likely explanation is just some weird genetics going on. However, one of the rare explanations for any type of heterochromia is chimerism. That's where 2 separate fetuses fuse together very early in development and you end up with one seemingly normal person with 2 sets of DNA. My first thought was if that's true, I could possibly have twins in the future (which is scary).
Of course my rational brain remind me that this is very unlikely and my son is not a chimera. But now I just happen to be thinking about the possibility of having twins and how hard that would be, etc.
Then the final nail in the paranoia coffin: I was making eggs this morning and I cracked open the second one and there was 2 yokes in it! My first thought was "OMG, this egg is twins, is God trying to tell me something?!"
Then my rational brain enters the room and says "you're not even pregnant.... why are you worrying about fictional babies?"
The answer: because that's what women do, worry about fictional scenarios. We are prepared for ALL OF THE THINGS!
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