You’ve just found out that you are pregnant. How do you react?
10. You send your husband to the store to buy a second test. The more high tech, the better. If they came out with a pregnancy test that could verbally tell you, “Congratulations! You’re pregnant!”, you would probably buy it.
9. Take a photo of the pregnancy test and post it on the Pregnancy forum on Families.com to see if your forum buddies think it’s positive, too. “Is that a line? Is it an evap?”
8. Google “early pregnancy symptoms” and mentally check off any that you are feeling. You worry if you’re not experiencing every symptom. You may actually bring on certain symptoms, such as nausea, just because you think about them so much. You begin to attribute every bout of fatigue, indigestion, short-term memory “blip”, and mood swing to your pregnancy.
7. Sign up for weekly pregnancy e-mails. You begin living life by the week. You calculate how many weeks you’ll be at each holiday. You may even mark the weeks on your calendar. You always know exactly how many weeks or days you are pregnant.
6. Start shopping for maternity wear online. You dream of being the ultimate maternity fashion diva, showing off that bump in all it’s glory. No muumuus for you!
5. You push your abdomen out every time you look in the mirror. Admit it, you’ve done it at least once! You also begin referring to your early pregnancy bloat as “the bump,” even if your baby is still only the size of a sunflower seed.
4. You fill your shopping cart with Prenatal vitamins, decaffeinated coffee/tea, pregnancy magazines, tums and 100-calorie snack packs (for your purse, of course). You may also pick up a copy of “1,000,000 Baby Names!!”
3. Your burn your last box of tampons. You toss the pads. Good bye, Aunt Flow, see you next year (maybe).
2. You start pouring through baby name books and lists, searching for “the one.” You pick out a temp name for your baby while you wait to find out the gender. (We called our son “nugget” for a while.”
1. You call your mom and say, “Hey Grandma, what’s up?”