1. No matter how much you want to have a child or how much fantasizing you do about what it will feel like to be pregnant, this is one of those times in your life when you have no control over the kind of experience you will have. Pregnancy is a runaway train on a one-way track and you are simply along for the ride.
2. Even if you read up on all the disgusting things that can happen to your body during this “precious” time, you will experience even grosser ones that the books don’t tell you about.
3. As soon as you begin to have a complicated pregnancy, doctors become way less nervous about putting you on drugs and it seems you can dose yourself up with any number of pharmaceuticals without them batting an eye.
4. The inability to move as you normally do can radically alter your personality.
5. All the people who told you pregnancy is hard are right.
6. All the movies that portray pregnancy as a magical time are speaking to the 10% of women who actually experience it that way. For the rest of us suckers, they also have a bridge to sell us.
7. It is actually 10 months long and feels like a year.
8. As excited as your husband is to become a parent and no matter how supportive a cameo he plays, the pregnancy journey is one you take alone.
9. Despite the difficulty, the pain, the interminable length, and the general discomfort, you will not stay pregnant forever.
10. A little baby can withstand the slings and arrows of a challenging pregnancy and emerge perfect into the world.
Comments (4)
All very true!
ialready delieved baby 3 yrs back but she died of heart disease.But now i am planning and i am unable to conceive.Can u tell me about my conceiving days if my periods are on 14 every month
Gudiya, this is Kate, an editor at Health.com. I am sorry to hear about your loss. We are journalists and not doctors, so I cannot answer your specific question. Your doctor can help you get the answers you are looking for. Good luck!
WOw, I so agree. My mom always said she never felt better in her life then when she was pregnant. I figured mother like daughter, NOT! Pregnancy is hard and I am one of the lucky ones with M/S into the 2nd trimester, severe congestion and catching every cold there is to be had out there. My mom thinks it must because at 30, I am so much older than she was nad that must be the reason. Oh well, no comfort from mom.