The Top 3 Pregnancy Myths

Now that I'm pregnant, I feel compelled to discuss some myths I thought were true before I got pregnant.

1. There is no such thing as morning sickness. Morning sickness is a complete lie made up by someone who has clearly never been pregnant. It should be renamed All Day Sickness That Gets Worse At Night (ADSTGWAN). In fact, waking up you feel fine and then as soon as you stand up and walk around, boom! You feel like total crap.

2. You will not be, nor feel like, eating for two. There is no need to "eat for two". My doctor told me it's more like eating for one and one third. The baby is extremely small and especially at this early phase I'm in there is little increased desire to eat. The women who go all out and start eating huge amounts of food are probably suffering from psychological problems and stress rather than true need for nourishment. Furthermore, the thought of food is mostly repulsive because of the aforementioned ADSTGWAN. Something you liked yesterday becomes your least favorite food tomorrow. This is particularly troublesome because I have ended up wasting a lot of perfectly good food.

3. You are not superwoman, and you can't have it all. I think certain women have made it their business to ruin being a woman for everyone. Maybe it's in my head, but there seems to be a huge faction of women (mostly in women's magazines) trying spread the myth that all women are somehow capable of being sex goddesses, mommies, and high-powered workhorses all at once. I get the impression that if I were a "real" woman, I'd be making babies and the CEO of my own company too. I'm sorry, but if I was still employed full-time, I would either be useless or on the verge of quitting because being pregnant is very tiring. I can go from feeling fine to feeling like I'm about to pass out from exhaustion within minutes. I've read that just sitting around, my body is working harder than someone who is climbing a mountain.

I know every woman is different, and some women really get a boost of energy during pregnancy, but all those women who prance around and talk about how women can have it all (without a full time nanny and housekeeper) are big liars.