Bumptastic: 9 great things about being pregnant
Perhaps everybody and everything in your life seems to be reminding you of just how difficult and challenging pregnancy can be?
Maybe comments on stretch marks, AWOL pelvic floors, varicose veins and enormous bottoms are ringing in your ears? Getting you down, even?
Take a deep breath. Push those thoughts aside. Because we’re here to tell you that there are lots of great things about pregnancy too.
Let us begin:
3. Extra helpings. Double scoops.
We know that ‘eating for two’ is a bit of a myth, but growing a baby actually is a heck of a lot of hard work, up there with building roads, being on a chain gang (whatever that is) and working on the complaints line at Aldi, come Saturday afternoon.
When you’re pregnant, it’s an open secret that nobody can a) get between you and food AND b) question your intake, no matter how outlandish it may seem. Those are just the rules, guys. Soz.