My pregnancy was something I dreamt of since I was a little girl, and something that never left my mind. I role-played motherhood my entire childhood, and pictured my future pregnancy from my early teen years to my actual pregnancy, at 25; from the perfect person I’ll fall in love with, and decide to have a family with, to finding out that we were pregnant and so on. But the truth is, I never imagined any of it the way it actually happened. Getting pregnant was a battle full of difficulties and step-backs that we fought through for years. I know that life changing experiences, or ones that you’ve spent decades envisioning and planning for rarely happen the way you imagined, but my experience towards and through pregnancy was far from what I had in mind considering my struggles with endometriosis and infertility.
Now when I fall asleep every night between my husband and son, I wouldn’t change a thing of how everything unfolded. However, looking back on my pregnancy, there are without a doubt things that I’d do differently if I had known better. Some of these advices are ones you hear all the time from the people that already have children and know what’s to come once your baby will be out, but that you choose to dismiss thinking you know better. And some are the ones you actually need but no one tells you because they just think that telling you to sleep is a priority (and it is!).

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