The emotional ups and downs caused by the fluctuation of hormones during pregnancy can be endless. You cry at the drop of a hat and have absolutely no reason why. You find yourself laughing hysterically at something that no one else considers funny. Your life is like a yo-yo constantly feeling all the ups and downs and even the twist of the string as it catches in your fingers. Face it girl, your life is a mess. You’re pregnant!!!

In the first trimester, or first third, of your pregnancy, everything in your life seems to be topsy turvy. You are excited to no end at finding out you are pregnant and terrified at the same time. This is all new territory to you and you have absolutely no idea why your body is acting the way it is. You are tired all the time and certain odors can have you rushing to the bathroom where find yourself spending more and more time in a relationship with the john as you make deposits on a regular basis. Your breasts are so sore you wonder when you could have possibly caught them in that vise. You are sad and cry most of the time and it takes next to nothing to set you off. Sometimes you even wonder if you are losing your mind. You talk with your doctor and he tells you it is all normal. NORMAL? It’s normal to feel as if some stranger has taken possession of your body? That is exactly what is goi
ng on. Your hormone level is creeping up at a steady rate and your thinking patterns are all over the place. Your husband is so confused; he is beginning to wonder where the woman is that he married. This could be a great time for a talk between the two of you.

Things should begin to calm down as you enter your second trimester. Your nausea is finally abating and you begin to realize there is a part of life outside the four walls of your bathroom. Your energy is up and you feel a lot calmer and you are now far enough along in the pregnancy that the horrific fear of miscarriage has finally left you brain. Those strange little flutters that you feel become the realization that your baby is starting to move, your baby. So now you begin to anticipate the bundle of joy.

It’s finally here; the last trimester and now you have new things occupying your mind. You have never been a mother before. Will you know what to do and be good at it? Should we have had the baby now? On top of that, you are so full of baby that you feel like an over-inflated balloon. You can’t breathe; you can’t get comfortable; and you fear your husband is losing interest in you as a sex object.

Finally, the big day arrives and you and your husband are taking turns cradling the new love of your lives. Nothing matters anymore but the tiny new life you brought into the world. It wasn’t so bad after all and it was well worth the trip.