I knew from the time I was a child that I wanted to have a baby. I couldn’t wait to feel that tiny body growing inside me. I couldn’t wait to touch its soft skin and smell its sweet baby smell. Like everything else in my life, I fantasize about all the positives and choose to ignore what might be viewed as a challenge. Being pregnant, giving birth, and raising children are truly beautiful experiences but peppered with difficulties and uncertainties. Here are a few things I wish I’d known before getting pregnant:
- Crying babies will give you such a sense of helplessness – like you’ve never experienced.
- Babies don’t smile for the first few weeks, but when they do, you’ll think you’ve never seen such a beautiful sight.
- The Terrible Twos are nothing compared to the Threes and Fours!
- Pregnancy is uncomfortable, and childbirth is excruciating, but 5 minutes after it’s over you know you’d do it all again (and probably will) for that miraculous little being.
- Your relationship with your husband will never be the same. Not that it will be worse, it will just be different.
- You will look at your parents in a completely different way. You will see them now more as experienced equals.
- Shopping with children can be like an obstacle course. Rare moments when you get to shop alone will be like a treasure hunt.
- You will eat lukewarm food for about 5 years.
- The sight of your child being rejected by other children or scolded by an adult will teach you what it means to have a broken heart.
- You will wish you could apologize to every mother you’ve ever met on whom you’ve passed judgment believing that you would handle a situation differently (better).
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