OMG! It's been forever since I've been pregnant!
Many moons ago, back in 1979, when I got knocked up, things were not like they are now.
I was around, 136, sicker than a dog, that tips over the trash can the first few months.
Once I got over that, it seemed like a free for all. Sometimes.
I ate HOT mexican food like it was my job, but Pizza Hut sauce made me hurl.
Tuna gave me heartburn to no end, but I also ate gallons of chile followed up with raspberry sherbert!
Given what my life was like at the time and we were more poor than church mice, I walked a lot. I had no choice, Dh had the only car and he drove it to work.
So, to the original ?
I was around 136. Nine months later, at 195, I delivered twin boys, that were a shade over 6 pounds EACH! Natural delivery!
In my opinion, the first time is a crap shoot, we don't know what we are doing! I didn't! I had no clue, I was gonna get big as a barn, and have twins, natural, gain a ton of weight and that the first would look like a cone head from Saturday Night Live, thanks to a lump on his head from the *salad spoons* and that his younger brother, who was hanging out cross ways, under my ribs, would need the CPR, beating on my chest to shake his lazy butt loose so he could be born.
Could I have done better, yes, I could have, but the first time is such an unknown.
Life, did not give me the opportunity do have anymore children. However, having lived through the first time, experience would have changed some things, and not changed others.
On the flip side. I have 4 awesome grandchildren! The most recent born Friday night! Enerson Paige!
I now have Devani, (a girl as in Coach Bob Devaney,Devaney stadium, yup Husker fans here), and her new sis, Emerson. And Allie Cadence, and Anderson Hayes, my other sons children.
The best advice I would give to a first time pregnancy, be patient, take a breath, and learn from it. While your OBGYN is a good source, the other women in your life, that have "been there done that" are also a great source of life experience!
The medical community and the advances in it, does give those who practice, tons of education, but, women have been doing this since time eternal, and there is wisdom, in those that have gone before us in this life experience!