Pregnancy: Pros and Cons

Please indulge me while I try to maintain some sense of humor (with 1.5 weeks left to go in my pregnancy). Here is a quick hit-list of the pros and cons of gestation.

Pros:

- People encouraging you to eat - and thinking that the bigger your belly is, the cuter you are

- Strangers assisting you with doors, carrying bags, doing anything

- A constant source for conversation - no lulls with a belly like this!

- Bonding with the new baby before anyone else gets to

- Feeling like you're a living miracle every single day and being amazed at the awesome things your body is capable of

Cons:

- Having your hands, feet and ankles serve as a human barometer for the humidity that day (or how much salt intake happened in the past 24 hours)

- Purchasing parachutes instead of bras to accommodate the new size of your boobs (which is only a con because if the "full body package" of growth that accompanies these knockers)

- A limited wardrobe - which is primarily dedicated to flat shoes and tops that cinch at the ribcage and have lots of bows, ties and ribbons

- Calf cramps throughout the night (to make sure you're REALLY not getting enough sleep between that and the fact that you're up pee-ing at least twice)

- Comments from complete strangers about your weight gain - as if it really isn't your body at all, but a fat suit that you've rented for 9 months

- Knowing that just around the corner... you're going to have to diet again (and ice cream has become such a fun reward at the end of the day)

But to be honest, if someone told me that Keith could do all of this in my place - there is no way that I'd want that to be the case. For all these little "nasties" in the cons section... there is something so special about pregnancy!