Reading is for mothers

Oh shit, as I typed the title of the post, it's the first time that it really hit me. I am going to be someone's mother! Yes, I always understood that there will a baby at the end of all of this, but I see babies all of the time - this one will be ours and we will be responsible for it. Crap! What have we gotten ourselves in to? What if we fuck it up? Bah, I'm putting it out of my head for now. There are more important things to worry about such as my intake of folic acid. So, back on topic....

I went to the library last night and checked out some mammoth 'everything you need to know and probably stuff you never wanted to know cause it will makes you go crazy and over analyze every little thing that you do' books. I couldn't help it, I need to research. I blame my mother (Hi, Mom!).

Things I've learned so far:

• I'm not supposed to eat cold cuts, aka deli meat. What a pain in the ass. We bring our lunches every day and sandwiches are easy. No problem, just plan ahead and take some leftovers you say? Do you know how hard that is for me? It's hard, but I'll do it, because I don't want to mess around with the evils of Listeriosis.
• Fatigue is a normal symptom of the first trimester of pregnancy. Thanks for clearing that up, books. I feel less like a freak when I want to go to bed at 8pm.
• I should be eating a well rounded and healthy diet. I need extra calories, but the 1st trimester isn't the time to be gaining weight, but shouldn't be trying to lose weight either. Thanks books, you've really cleared that up.
  

There is more, but I don't want to bore anyone with too many details. There are just so many things to know and I feel as if I need to know them ALL now. Can't someone just crack open my brain and dump all of the info in? Oooooh now there's an idea for my next patent submission.

While reading this post over, I realized I swore a tiny bit. Maybe I should clean up my potty mouth and be a good influence on this spawn of ours. I'll take the idea under consideration.