Steve and I looked through all the pregnancy books at Big & Chain bookstore this weekend, looking for one that might somewhat share our attitude. (We are trying to eschew all the fear-based advice and long lists of things to avoid.)<\/p>\n
One book that I dismissed out-of-hand was What to Expect When You’re Expecting<\/a>, based only on the fact that the cover featured a quilt-like background and cheesy illustration of a mom-to-be. (Wouldn’t you put this book down, too?<\/a>) I know that the book is a classic, but I’m also trying to avoid all the irritating lovey-dovey books. Anyway, my parents chose that book to buy for us, and a good thing it was!<\/p>\n Once I finally started reading through it, I found it to be very balanced and useful. Much of it is in a question-and-answer format, and last night a few of my actual current questions were addressed.<\/p>\n The most important one was the fear I mentioned yesterday of the embryo just slipping out unnoticed. According to the book, once the embryo is implanted, it doesn’t leave without a fight. Namely, if you’re going to miscarry, you generally experience lots of pain and bleeding. That was a relief to hear.<\/p>\n Another related question was something like, “I don’t feel pregnant. Is everything OK?” The answer was that many women don’t experience many symptoms at first. Surprisingly, almost half<\/em> of pregnant women experience NO morning sickness, despite what everyone thinks. I guess I should just start enjoying my (so far) easy time of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Steve and I looked through all the pregnancy books at Big & Chain bookstore this weekend, looking for one that might somewhat share our attitude. (We are trying to eschew all the fear-based advice and long lists of things to avoid.) One book that I dismissed out-of-hand was What to Expect When You’re Expecting, based […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pregnancy","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}