Pregnancy is No Joke

After my experiences during the pregnancy of my daughter, I vowed to never give unsolicited advice. I've been trying to hold myself back but today I can't. I need to share this with you in the hopes that you can learn from my mistake and save yourself some post traumatic stess.

At my six week checkup with the OB, he and I decided that an IUD was the best method of birth control for me taking into consideration a number of factors, one of them being that my husband and I want to wait 2-3 years before giving Sophia a sibling. My doctor, a now close friend of my husband and I, suggested that I tell David (my husband) that I was pregnant as a joke. I, being the loving mature wife that I am, thought that was an amazing idea and called him, at work, to tell him I was knocked up. Incase any of you women get a similar urge and think that telling the father of a six week old that his wife is pregnant would be good for a laugh let me save you the time... they don't find it amusing. (That was piece of advice number one.)

This week I had to go in to make sure the placement of the IUD was correct. My doctor pauses during the ultrasound, looks at me, and says, "You wont believe this but congratulations, looks like we've got a David JR in there! Lets pull out that IUD!" Can you imagine?!? Being pregnant again with only 2 months off? I was just beginning to fit into some of my old clothes! Our home is nowhere near big enough! I'm barely surviving the one I already have for crying out loud, which I was about ready to do (or take the ultrasound wand and start bashing in the computer monitor) when my doctor bursts out laughing and barely manages to gasp out, "AHHHH-you should have seen your face!" After calming down by treating myself to a grande iced latte at Starbucks I arrived at my second piece of advice, and the moral of this story. An OB telling the mother of an eight week old that she is pregnant is NEVER good for a laugh AND, what goes around comes around so watch yourself. With that this very NOT pregnant mommy bids the day a good night.