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What You Should Know Before You Conceive
Veteran Advice Before You Conceive
By Shel Franco
And just when you think that the hard part is over -- your egg managed to be infiltrated by one lowly sperm, you managed to make it through the first trimester without miscarrying, and you some how passed a watermelon through an orange-sized hole -- you are now a parent.
"I had no idea how difficult and exhausting having a newborn can be," says Beth Skarupa, a former Babies Today diary writer. "But I don't think anyone can really know this until they experience it themselves."
"Exhausted" might be an understatement. For some new parents "incoherent" is a better word. If you are a person who wants or needs a large amount of sleep to function properly, before you conceive is the time to figure out how you will handle this joy of parenting.
"For years I had yearned for a baby, took care of relatives' children and thought I'd be a great mom," says former Babies Today diary writer Megan Byers. " ... But it is so different when it is 24 hours a day, seven days a week."
Crazy, isn't it? Parenting is the only job on this planet that requires total self-sacrifice without so much as one measly sick day in return. And to think that after experiencing all of this, someone, like former Babies Today diary writer June would say, "I never thought I would have loved someone enough to give up my life for them."
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