Month Eight: Your MoodsYou will read What to Expect When You're Expecting as if it is your fortune teller. You will compare your belly to the bellies in book and you will scoff at how fat and ugly the women in the book are. Or you will scoff at the publisher for displaying pictures of women who are not as fat as you are. If you are a raving lunatic by this point, you might call the publisher and threaten to sue. You will read about all the possible diseases that your baby could have. You will dream of combinations of diseases and you will spend many sessions in therapy talking about what you and your husband will do if you have a baby with ten congenital diseases. Finally, the therapist will tell you to just worry about the stuff that you are sure exists. The only thing that will be sure is that your therapist let you waste five sessions talking about irrelevant diseases. You will yell at your therapist. And you will not apologize because you pay him.
Month Nine: Your Labor |
