A Bump in the Road, things I wasn't expecting

We're having a baby! A human baby! Fred and I are thrilled, though in what is surely the most unpopular confession in the blogosphere; this was not our initial reaction, it probably wasn't even our second!

Our path to pregnancy is best described as the World's Biggest Oops. Seeing the blue lines was the single most shocking and terrifying moment of my life, especially as I had done just about everything I could to ensure their non-appearance! Fred's first words were "What?! No way!" closely followed by "Wait, did you pee on this?" before thrusting the baby wand back at me. Always one to focus on the important issue is Fred! I'm not sure what my first words were as I couldn't speak for a long time, it was also quite a while before I stopped shaking. 

But here we are, about to embark on what will surely be the most thrilling white-knuckle ride of our lives! And as we take these first steps it has become glaringly apparent that I am completely unprepared for pregnancy so I've decided to share some some of the things that shocked me most!

1. You can get pregnant at any time. Yes just like the scary nun who taught your sex education class told you all those years ago, you can get pregnant even when you track your cycles and count days and avoid fertile windows, I was days away from mine when the magic happened. Your body is a sneaky little fertile dynamo that way.
Moral: If you don't want it to happen, don't let it happen.

2. There is no correct reaction. Finding out that you have created a human life is a preeeeeeetty massive thing to process and that's before you even make the selfish associations like "Can my life accommodate a baby", "how sore is labour really" and most pressingly "WILL I SURVIVE WITHOUT WINE?" In truth I found it completely overwhelming. There was so much to think about and so many emotions to take it process that everything stopped and I was totally numb. As a married woman who (in theory) wanted kids I thought the correct response was joy, there was no joy. At least not for the first few days. The absence of joy was one of the hardest things to deal with, it made me feel like a terrible person, almost like I didn't deserve to be a mother! I'm nearly certain this winding guilt trip is due to spending too much time on Instagram admiring highly-efficient, perfectly coiffed, beaming Mommy Bloggers, BLEUGH! This phase (eventually) passed and now I'm enjoying pregnancy and looking forward to bringing home a human.
Moral: Feel all the feels, they're your emotions and are entirely acceptable!

To conclude: YAY SURPRISE FOETUS!