What Not to Read...

Don't read The Smart Mother's Guide to a Better Pregnancy. I was expecting some food and diet advice, exercise suggestions...anything but what I found. Essentially, the first two chapters are about the difference between family practice doctors, midwives, ob/gyns, and all the other different people who you can choose from to deliver your baby. Essentially useless to me, because I already have my doctor and am quite happy with the practice.

The rest of the book is about all the things that could possibly go wrong at all the points in your pregnancy, none of which you can do anything about, and all the things that can go horribly wrong with your baby and/ or your reproductive system.

I can't read it anymore. I don't need another list of things to worry about. It's not that I want to be in denial, I just don't need MORE reasons to worry about tummy twinges or heartburn or the baby's shoulders getting stuck in the birth canal or the placenta detaching too early or the placenta not detaching fully and turning my uterus inside out (uh, yeah. That can happen, for real), or the umbilical cord coming out of....places...before the baby is born, or stillbirth, or a baby with physical or mental disabilities....

I'll be moving on to the birthing options book pronto.

Yikes.

In other news, one of our close friends at church just told us that they're pregnant--they found out the day after we told them that we were. I am just so thankful that I am pregnant too, because if all of my friends (who started trying after we did) were pregnant and we were still trying with no results? Yeah, I'd be in therapy. Now I can just be happy!

I don't know if anyone else has experienced this, but now that we're pregnant, I feel like I want to spend so much more time with everyone--like, I can't get enough time with my husband. I just want him to be around all the time! Not in a clingy way--I just am really enjoying hanging out with him all the time and all the conversations that we're able to have. I've also really wanted to be more social with our friends, especially since most of them are also having babies. I think I'm feeling the time crunch til we're homebound!