What to do and what not to do when pregnant.

What to do: Eat what you crave...even if it's pepperoni subs with avocado, tons of McDonalds Cheese burgers, spaghetti noodles with olive oil and garlic salt, SHIRLEY TEMPLES, sour licorice ropes, popcorn or chef boyaredee raviolis.


What not to do: Do NOT, under any circumstances, get a quad screen blood test to check for downs syndrome because you will most likely get a false positive and stress out FAR too much for no reason!


What to do: Tell everyone your pregnant. Everyone wants to talk about it and feels like they can relate, even if they've never been pregnant. It's fun.


What not to do: After you tell people, and they respond with, "I could tell your face was swollen like mine gets when I'm pregnant" or "I totally knew way before you announced it" or "yeah, you've got that glow", or "You aren't showing but your hormones are"....DON'T PUNCH THEM. I know it's hard. But even though I don't glow, my face is the only thing NOT swollen and you did NOT know I was pregnant before I told you, its probably not safe for the child to be getting into fist fights at this point.


What to do: Find out the sex in a creative way. Today we had an ultra sound and our tech saw the gender and we had him write it in an envelope, I sealed it up, and we took it to a bakery to have a special baby cake made. We gave the baker the results without us knowing. She's going to put blue or pink frosting INSIDE the cake, so when we cut into it on Friday at our reveal party...everyone will find out the gender together. It was really hard to pass off the results, but I'm SOOOO excited for Friday.

What not to do: Don't eat a huge bowl of taco soup right before bed because you will wake up in the middle of the night with horrible heart burn and throw it all up.

What to do: Tell people close to you what you need from them. I've discovered through this process, my needs are always changing. Probably because of all the hormones pumping through my blood, but I noticed when my mom wasn't checking in on me as much as I liked, or my husband wasn't hugging me on the rare occasions I wanted affection, or I really wanted icecream but there was nothing in the house, I had to voice what I needed or I just got frustrated at people without communicating what the issues were. Cut yourself some slack. Allow yourself to feel whatever your feeling, just don't expect everyone around you to get it unless you speak up.

What not to do: Don't forget this process. Write down what your going through so you wont forget the little things. This blog is my pregnancy journal. I'm going to try to write down little details so I can look back and remember Shirley temples were the best thing ever.

Even though being pregnant is stressful at times, it is such a gift. This is my first baby, so I'm learning what to do and what not to do in my next pregnancy. But all in all, I'm so thankful for this opportunity and we love this baby so much already. I can't wait for Friday so I can finally start buying stuff for the nursery. Stay tuned for baby Jamison's name and gender! Life is good. We are so blessed.