WHAT THEY DIDN'T TELL ME

When I was pregnant all I did was Google everything, read books, and Google more. Seriously. It would be embarrassing to show everything I "asked" Dr. Google. I was obsessed with knowing what labor and delivery would be like, what post partum would feel like, and how to get my newborn to sleep through the night by 6 weeks! HA! (I literally just laughed out loud at that one). Anyways, after all of my obsessive research (I call it nesting), I was still surprised by a lot - good things and bad! 

CONTRACTIONS: you can have contractions weeks before you go into labor. I'm not talking about those annoying Braxton hicks. I'm talking belly so tight I thought it was going to explode. Not to mention the lightening crotch. Google if you don't know. Every step felt like I was getting electracuted those last couple weeks. I was scared of labor until then...I wanted this baby OUT! 

LABOR: ugh! I should write a separate blog on my birth experience. But let me just tell you, no one told me contractions would feel like a dull knife stabbing me every 3 minutes. However, I would choose the dull knife in place of the CHAINSAW-FOR-AN-HOUR-STRAIGHT pain that I had during transition. Yup. No one told me. 

AMNESIA: see above as to why I don't believe that "amnesia after birth" crap.

POST PARTUM IS GROSS: I obviously knew labor was gross. After is way worse in my opinion. I won't go into too much detail (if you're a dude you may want to stop reading), but it's a murder scene. Tip to new soon-to-be mommies: please please please do not wear or buy anything you want to wear ever again. You're welcome. 

PEE, PEE EVERYWHERE: Not me, I promise. No one told me that during those first few weeks, during every diaper change would be a shower of pee. I tried everything to prevent, block and dodge it. Plus, with a boy it goes everywhere. It rivaled my childhood waterguns for sure. One time it went right up into Connor's face, hair and possibly his mouth but it was semi-dark so I am in denial about that last one. 

POOP OBSESSION: My fellow mommy friends can relate. I am so surprised I don't care about changing poopy diapers. I was so worried about it, really. Ok so this is going to sound weird but I love poop! It's like constant reassurance. "Yup, he is healthy! He is getting enough food!". When Ryan watches Connor , the first thing I ask him when I get home is," did he poop?" "What did it look like?" "What color was it?". I need to know these things or I cannot function. Weird, but I guarantee once you're a mom, you will be the same way! 

THE LOVE: On a more serious note...No one could have prepared me for how much love I would have for this child. One might say "I literally can't even!". You always see these cliché phrases online like, "he is my world" or "my whole life". But it's true. Nothing else matters except for this tiny human! It hard to write this because it is that hard to explain. So I'll leave it at that. 

I could go on and on about everything that I've learned along the way but I thought I would share a few. Please share any "wish you knew" moments of pregnancy or motherhood!