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more preggers surprises

#4) I am surprised at how complicated the months and weeks of my pregnancy are.
I don't get it. I am currently in week 23, but month 6. How does that work out? The math of a four week-month doesn't add up. I know when this baby is expected but I still don't get how weeks and months work.

#5) I was surprised that it took a while for us to get pregnant.
I can't complain...it didn't take us forever. But I was genuinely surprised to read (while we were trying) that the average woman in her 20's trying to get pregnant will usually take a year before she finds two lines on her pee stick. A whole year. And this is the average amount. It is still hard for me to believe this when it seems like plenty of young girls can get pregnant accidentally. And it just doesn't seem right that I know so many friends who are trying desperately for the same result.

When I took the pregnancy tests I couldn't believe how hard I was willing for a second line to show up. I thought of my announcement post during one of these unsuccessful tests, thinking it was so, so crazy how badly I wanted to see two lines show up.

#6) I didn't get weepy emotional.
I keep waiting for this to happen. It still might. But so far, my emotions are less weepy and sad as they are short fused and annoyed. My inability to find my patience at moments makes me think that this is how my irrational emotions have played out. I had just assumed I would cry a lot.

#7) How much Rory would want to be a part of this whole thing.
Rory came up to me just a few days ago and said, "I can't wait for the baby to come. I really want it to come now." And I replied that he could wait and that we would not want the baby to come right now. And he commented, "Well I know that, but it's just not fair that you get to have the baby with you all day long. I just want it out so I can spend that much time with our baby too."

He will stop dead in his tracks if I tell him the baby is moving. He can't get enough.

5 comments:

margaret harrington said...

Rory is going to be such a good dad!

Stephanie said...

1) I am relatively sure it takes the average woman in her 20's 3 months to get pregnant, and nearly half will get pregnant on the first try. Trying for a year unsuccessfully is the medical definition of infertility, and only 12% of all couples of all child bearing ages will meet it.

2) I think the pregnancy emotion is irritation. At least at the end. Weepiness is for the newborn period, but that is really just sleep deprivation.

3) yes, Rory is going to be a great dad!

Becca Groves said...

See, Stephanie, this is EXACTLY why I think you should have your own babysite. Thank you for clearing up my misinformation AND for validating my irritability!

Stephanie said...

I didn't mean to be quite so definitive about the pregnancy emotion thing, just sure about the statistics. Surely some people are weepy. Or sentimental or glowing or some other Hallmark thing. *I* was just cranky. Really really really cranky. As I am now. Your niece has just got to go to sleep already! I want to watch the Informant.

Kristin said...

I love it. I can't wait to meet your short stranger. Stephanie...you crack me up. Did you pull the statistics out of that cute curly head of yours or did you have to look them up?