Good luck on the certification exam!
As for the pregnancy and such, I'll just offer a giant hug & a smile. I think you're awesome.
Thanks Shari! I just have to remember to breathe and I should be fine. WHY DOES EVERYTHING HAVE TO BE SO COMPLICATED?
Think endorphins. They'll show up and whisk you through. Then you'll have a little baby and then it will be 5 and then 30. Whoosh. Just like that. I'm for skipping the 14-21 part, though. There should be a nice warm place to keep those little darlings, throw meat to the corner of the cage, that kind of thing.
The term "natural childbirth" was coined by men.
You don't need advice (it gets even more insane once the kid is out), but here's mine: get an epidural.
After one with and one without I wonder why I even hesitated.
Here's another bright note: panic attacks diminish after middle age. Everything you could panic about has already happened. Feet up, exhale.
Good luck on your exam!
Now I know I have no business commenting on this one--but I think all this nature stuff may be correct, in principle, but it discounts the fact that sheer terror and angst and rabid paranoia are part of the natural state of the human animal, and you are about to figure out why women are so tough, why Esther Guttierrez who clung to me in high school science class making me promise to be her partner and cut the frog open eventually took the scalpel away from me and seemed to take sheer delight in working on that frog, much to my nausea, and just watch women's roller derby for chrissake. You'll be fine.
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