The bonus of Pregnancy

Morning sickness, feeling bloated, Heartburn, Hemorrhoids, back pain, breast pain, swollen ankles, feeling faint, constipation, headaches, tiredness and mood swings; these are some of the things that you can look forward too from conception through to the birth of your child, Oh the Joys!

The miracle of life is happening inside your body and you are paying for it big style your body is in revolt and it gets you down and this is just the build up to the big event.

Excruciating pain a feeling of being torn in two, try pushing a water melon through the eye of a needle, and then baby is here, remember that needle? they will use that to stitch you up after that little head tears you apart without the use of anisthetic.

Childbirth is the miracle of life but as they say miracles dont come easy.

Most women that i know who have given birth all say that it was worth every bit of suffering, that as soon as they saw their new son or daughter all of the pain and suffering was forgotten forever.

Yeah Right At every opportunity they get together with their girlfriends they re-live every gory detail and compare what each other went through from conception to birth each trying to out do the other and scaring the pants off of their girlfriends who have yet to experience the miracle of childbirth for themselves.

Of course Pregnancy is not all bad and it gives you an excuse to do things that you normaly wouldnt even think about doing and you can get away with it because you are pregnant.

Being pregnant is not an illness but you will find that some of the people around you treat you differently as though you were seriously ill, they wont let you lift a finger to help, they wont let you carry heavy bags and God forbid you if you even try to do something exciting like cleaning the outside windows of your home you will be shot down in flames.

This is the time you begin to realise that pregnancy has its advantages as well as its many downsides, this is the time that you realise that you can do so many things that you wouldn't dare do if you were not pregnant and because you are pregnant you can get away with it without anyone batting an eyelid.

10) Manners are thought to be a thing of the past but during your pregnancy you will find strangers holding doors opened for you and offering you their seat on the bus.

9) You are allowed to cry during romantic movies or true stories when you are pregnant without being teased about it by your darling other half, your hormones during pregnancy make you a little over emotional sometimes.

8) Playing with all of the toys in your local toy store research is important you know.

7) You get to shop till you drop and your partner cannot say a word about it, highchair, cot , stroller etc etc.

6) Morning sickness can have its upside too, you can tell your partner that he will have to do the cooking because you are feeling nauseous.

5) You get to flip out at your partner for no reason whatsoever and he will let you get away with it blaming your hormones again, How dare he bring you a strawberry tart when you have a craving for chocolate.

4) Talking of Chocolate you can eat as much of it as you desire without feeling guilty about it because the baby wants it.

3) You can go to bed at 9pm and then sleep till lunchtime the next day because this pregnancy business can be very tiring.

2) Shopping again how good is it having to buy a whole new wardrobe to last the 9 months of your pregnancy it makes you feel so good and the positive vibes from you are picked up by the baby.

1) Last on the list but well worth the wait the best thing about being pregnant is that you get to fart as much as you want in public and if anyone looks at you all you do is smile and say it wasn't me it was the baby. what more could anyone ask for an excuse to save you the embarrassment of farting makes the whole pregnancy worth while.

If you have read any of my recent articles you will know that my wife is pregnant with child number four and that most of my recent articles have been baby related.

last week Alison had an ultrasound scan and we discovered the sex of our little miracle.

Everything is running smoothly and as expected and our baby is due into this world on August 21st 2010.

If you would like to know the sex of our unborn child I will tell you later when there are 10 correct votes in the poll.

we are getting very excited and have already chosen a name for the baby and as a clue the baby is named after a Hubpages friend of mine.

Thankyou to everyone who has been asking me to update the information.