In Full Voice

I sang O Holy Night at Grace Cathedral Sunday night. The high G just flew out of me. I think my voice and range are in really good shape right now. A friend who's at the same stage of pregnancy as I am is a singer and voice teacher and she told me that when she's been pregnant her voice is really great because of the hormones. I'm noticing the same thing. My diaphragm has migrated to who-knows-where and is headed for my shoulder or something, but even so I feel great. I noticed on one gig that I didn't seem to have the long notes I was accustomed to, but I think I've since adjusted. Perhaps now that I think of it, I had the same issue on O Holy Night; if I try to do a long melisma I don't always have enough breath to go all the way through, but I think the brilliance of tone and the ease more than make up for that. Yesterday while vocalizing I could easily go to an E above high C, which is my normal top-of-range (never in performance, of course) and surprisingly, I could go an octave below middle C as well, which is unusual.