Welcome to the two-week wait! That is the mind-numbingly annoying stretch of days between ovulation and peestick time.
Let’s simply get the nonsense out of the best way: Exercising received’t knock the infant unfastened. Consuming a margarita (or hell, plural margaritas) earlier than you understand you’re pregnant received’t make your child’s mind develop inside out. Sleeping in your aspect/again/abdomen received’t trigger/forestall a miscarriage/ectopic being pregnant/a child with flippers.
The human race? We are literally a reasonably hardy bunch. We existed for a lot of many years with out early outcome being pregnant checks and six-week ultrasounds and Folic Acid dietary supplements. Clearly, stuff occurs — and lots of instances that stuff will get handled very early on in life within the type of a spontaneous miscarriage, however there’s little or no YOU can do at this level to sway the end result. So pop a prenatal vitamin, take a swig of no matter beverage you rattling nicely really feel like swigging, cross your fingers and hope for one of the best.
And this goes for anybody who already is aware of they’re pregnant and is now scouring via the sooner weeks in a panic due to “one thing” they did improper earlier than they knew. That hour within the scorching tub…that fall on the icy sidewalk… the vodka shooters at your pal’s bachelorette celebration. Did I damage my child?
I used to be proper up there with the Better of the Neurotics throughout my first being pregnant. Each twinge and cramp meant hours of fear and fretting. I checked the bathroom paper for blood each time I went to the toilet. A fall down some stairs at a restaurant introduced me to hysterical tears and despatched me to mattress for the remainder of the day. And you understand what? It didn’t change something, besides that each one my reminiscences of early being pregnant are coloured with quite a lot of stress and worry. I went on to provide start to an honest-to-God tank of a child, and to want that somebody had simply slapped me early on and instructed me to CHILL OUT.
So my purpose for this being pregnant is to do exactly that: CHILL OUT. And to do not forget that not the whole lot is inside my management, that Each Unhealthy Factor can’t be prevented by obsessing over vegetables and fruit and low-mercury fish alone, and that anticipating the worst doesn’t make The Worst damage any much less if it occurs. So…deep breath…take pleasure in it, Self. (As a lot as you’ll be able to take pleasure in one thing that makes you so gassy and drained and bloated.)
And for any pregnant girl becoming a member of me alongside the best way over the following 30-odd weeks or so, hopefully I would be the written-word equal of that slap within the face. You sit back too! That’s an order! Take a look at how chilled out I’m! Eeeeeeeee!
