Archive for November 21st, 2009

This week I’m going to let Diane take the center stage and share her wonderful pregnancy horror stories. This originally appear on her blog Tocket.info last week but it was good enough to post here. As for me, I was recently hired to do some blog post for a new site about dads called Daddy Outpost. Feel free to check them out and enjoy the awesome world of being a father!

Let’s face it. We’ve all heard the crazy horror stories that practically every mother goes through while being pregnant. I’ve heard tales of 3 month early babies, excruciating back pain, inappropriately timed morning sickness, 30 + hours in labor, and just about everything in between. So I just want to say that I’m thankful that I turned out to have one of those rare normal pregnancies.

To all those women who told me their crazy stories I appreciate it, but you guys suck! This was my first pregnancy and while I know you were trying to help, scaring the crap out of an impending mother pumped full of hormones is not cool. After every story I’d look down at my round belly and whimper. Silently sending thoughts to my little one with pleas of “Please don’t hurt me!” I’d cringe at every sordid detail until I realized that I wasn’t going through any of that.

I’m going to go through a list of Scare Tactics vs DieDie Facts for my pregnancy. Read the rest of this entry »