When you’re pregnant with your first child, you have no idea what to expect. I remember thinking about all the things I absolutely would and wouldn’t do to my child – completely forgetting that I was growing an entirely new human being here and human beings come equipped with personality, and opinions and desires of their own.
Of course, six years on, I am pregnant with our third baby and I’ve got a much better handle on reality. Pants are totally optional if we’re at home and as long as no one is bleeding or dying, then we’re doing okay.
It’s funny how your expectations change.
Of course, this has been helped along by having both children on the spectrum, Amy with auditory processing issues and Isaac with sensory issues, chewing issues, bowel issues, toilet training issues and a multitude of things I cannot control. I’m way less concerned about what the general public thinks and more concerned about being the best parent for my kids.
This is why when I was asked to contribute to the book “The Things They Didn’t Tell You About Parenting” I was very keen.
Along with another 31 of Australia’s best parenting bloggers, I have a piece in this book, which the quote above is drawn from. Profits go to benefit Foundation 18 and I encourage you to buy a copy, not just for my writing, but for the other pieces inside as well. You’ll laugh and nod along and it’s probably good preparatory reading if you’re pregnant with your first child.
You can buy a copy of the book here.
Absolutely agree with your quote!
It’s probably an excellent book, but I just don’t need a copy. I don’t even know any pregnant mums I could buy one for……………wait a minute, there’s a girl at work…..how much is the book?
It’s an eBook, River, and it’s $5.
Absolutely agree with that quote , one kid here eats everything the other not very much .
Oh, it’s an e-book.
Looks like a great book! Before i wasn’t relying on pregnancy books, i listen to friends and family stories and check some websites. Then i have seen this movie Labor Pains, then saw this book they featured, from that day on i started buying pregnancy books and i can say it really helps a lot! 🙂
Smug mothers give me the absolute pip. I always remember a friend of mine commenting on her condescending sil waffling on about her drug free first labour. On and on and on and on – and mainly in the presence of Ann Marie, who had bravely admitted she found labour exceptionally painful and had taken some pain relief. When the sil had her second baby, my friend did very well and did not laugh out loud when her brother told her “Yeah, she screamed a bit. Had to have some drugs”. Not, of course, because Anne Marie was wishing pain on this stupid woman, but because the stupid woman finally got it. It’s luck. If you were lucky, be grateful, not smug.
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