After a brief hiatus from blogging, I'm back! No house updates for now...soon enough I'll have a few pics of the nursery to show you.
When you are pregnant you gain much attention…some is positive and welcomed and some is…well, not so much. As I close out the last month of my first pregnancy, I thought it would be fun to look back and laugh at all of the funny, strange, awkward and sweet things people have said to me over the past 9 months.
Here it goes…I’ll let you be the judge of what category these comments fit into:
· “You better sleep now” or “I’m just glad I’m not going back to the newborn stage ever again.” – I totally understand that the reality of having a newborn = sleep is limited and disjointed but the sheer amount of people that have made this comment to me is unnerving!
· I now know more intimate details about almost every co-worker that has ever had a child…either their Labor and Delivery story or that of their wife! I work with a lot of old guys so this is a bit disturbing and awkward, especially when I could be their daughter! Previously I may never have known their wife’s name or that they even had a wife but now I know HER entire L&D story for each and every one of their kids! “My wife went 4 weeks early with both of ours…you better get your bags packed.”
· While I’m talking about co-workers, one guy told me about his niece’s son that was recently born with some sort of cyst and they almost had to remove his arm. Seriously?! I have no words…this same gentleman went on to tell me about his sister being a L&D nurse for 30 years and had never seen this happen until it was her own grandson…but his sister (the L&D nurse), gave birth to a stillborn 2 days before her due date because that was way back before they did kick counting. No, I’m not kidding, I wish I was…this conversation actually happened. I avoided this guy like the plague after this awkward encounter.
· “You don’t have <insert any of the following: a name picked out, the car seat in, the nursery done> yet?” immediately followed by “When are you due?”.
· "Pregnant ladies are hot mamas"...my response "Hot in more than one way?!?!"
· Luckily most of the comments about my appearance have been positive…I’ve been extremely lucky to not endure a lot of swelling that normally comes pregnancy so I like the “you look really good” comments…keep those coming, even if I don’t! J Luckily my wonderful husband is helping to make sure I get my feet up so they don't balloon!
· “I can’t even begin to describe how your life is going to change…for the better. It truly is an amazing experience.”
· “You are going to be a great mom.” For all of you that have told me this, I sure hope you are right! Luckily I’ve had some pretty great role models between my own wonderful mother, my awesome mother-in-law, my grandma and Grammy Petska and all of my friends who recently become moms themselves.
· “I think it’s a boy because they say that girls steal the mother’s beauty and you still look great.”
· Lastly, and topping my list as one of the nicest things anyone said to me was “you look really happy.”
So...as you can see, it's been a wild 9 months and I truly am so happy and feeling so lucky to be blessed with this journey. No doubt it will change our lives...for the better and I know it will all be so worth it. Can't wait to meet our little one!
XOXO - j
