Tick Tock on the Clock but the Party don't stop.....

Pregnancy is a long, long waiting game. Let's take a look back and think about all the things you have to wait for.....

If you are trying to get pregnant, you begin each month by waiting to ovulate. Then you wait to find out if your period will begin. After an unable-to-be-predetermined amount of time you reach SUCCESS! But then the REAL waiting begins.

You wait for your 1st OB/GYN appointment. You wait until it's "safe" to tell your friends and family. You wait to hear the heartbeat each month. You wait for that day you NEED to put on those maternity pants. You wait (impatiently) for your ultrasound so that you can find out the sex of the baby. You wait to decorate the baby's room. You wait to register. You wait for your baby shower. You wait, and you wait, and you wait. Then at the end, you are just waiting..... for the waiting to end.

But I really needed to wait for those events. It made the 9 months bearable. If I had found out I was pregnant on Sunday, learned it was a boy on Monday, and turned into a whale on Tuesday, I wouldn't have made it. Those milestones were little celebrations along the way that kept me excited and happy.

The waiting that remains is the scariest of all. I'm waiting for labor to begin. I'm waiting to see how long my labor lasts. I'm waiting to meet my little boy. And I'm waiting to find out what kind of parents Art & I will be....