I'm Pregnant!: Recent Episodes
Baby Babble
We'll going to let you in on a little secret that no other baby blog will tell you: being pregnant is not a major deal for an otherwise healthy woman. It isn’t.
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My extensive research (see: frantic Google searches) indicates that there is no hard and fast rule dictating the best time to break the “I’m gestating!” news.
However, most blogs, books and formerly pregnant people suggest that it’s best to wait until after the first trimester to announce the proof of your fertility to the world.
Eating can consume the mind of a pregnant woman, who's not thinking...“Am I going to throw up? I don’t want to throw up. I think I’m going to throw up. Yup. Here it comes.”
My pregnant lady bliss lasted one whole week. During that week, I glowed, I had the energy of ten women and I wanted to have sex ALL THE TIME.
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Calisa is anticipating her first prenatal doctor’s visit, which she is sure to be as magical as the movies promise.
She fully expects that she and her boyfriend will be ushered into a private room by a kindly OB who will reveal my itty bitty baby-to-be on an ultrasound screen and give the couple all kinds of reassuring advice before sending them home with an armful of pamphlets and some free prenatal vitamins.
You know those movies where the woman doesn’t know she’s pregnant until she finds herself throwing up (oh so cutely) in the morning? Or (even more adorable), when her favorite pair of jeans gets a little snug? Cue the pregnancy test scene, backed by pop music, and that poignant moment when she tells her significant other, family and friends.
My “OMG I’m pregnant” moment was nothing like that.