Getting ready for pregnancy! (Preparing for Pregnancy)

Member Name: stephbond89

Product:	Preparing for Pregnancy
Date:	04/05/09 (52 review reads)
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Advantages: Getting everything ready!

Disadvantages: Too much conflicting info!!

Well as I have said in a few of my reviews and ops recently, me and my husband have decided to start trying for our first baby. Its come after we have been married almost a year. My husband was dead set against having children this time last year, but over the last few months, the issue has come up alot more and over the last month we have decided we are ready in our relationship and in ourselves to have a baby, we have discussed everything through the changes which will take place and the differences to our lives, and we are confident that although it will be tough, that the love of a child will overturn every sleepless night and dirty nappy.

And so, 3 days ago we decided that I would come off my Mini-Pill contraception, and start trying to conceive and so thats what we have done.

I read that after you come off the pill, it can take a few weeks, months for your body to get back to normal and that conceiving can be difficult. But I am hoping that everything will go ok, and that in the next couple of weeks I will be taking a positive test...probably very naive of me to think that it would happen so quickly! Tends to be the ones who want a baby will try and try but the unplanned ones come along on that one night you forgot to take your pill!

I have an older sister who has three babies, and I was there the whole way through her pregnancies so I feel I am quite clued up on it all...at least I hope so...!

I know that folic acid is very important to help stop miscarriges and illnesses like Spina Bifida in baby, and so its somethign I am getting in the next couple of days to take throughout conception through to around 12 weeks pregnancy.

I know about what I'm not suposed to eat:

Some cheeses (blue cheese, some brie and camemburg)
Pate
raw meat
unpasteurised milk
raw eggs (i.e. homemade mayonaise)
liver and liver related products
Oily fish

And I should limit my caffeine and alcohol intake...
of course alcohol should be near enough cut out of my diet once pregnant, but I know that something like 1 unit every so often is no danger, and there are debates as to whether there is any danger to babies, its difficult to kno what to do there!!!

Other than this, I am kind of flummoxed, I am excited about getting pregnant and giving birth, and I already have a book on order from amazon about conception, pregnancy and birth, and so I am looking forward to reading all about it, and hopefully getting myself knowing everything!!!!

Its the after birth sex I'm worried about...! I have read it can dry up completely!!! :-o lol!!!!!

Summary: I can't wait.