What to Expect. . .

My two older sisters were pregnant with their first children at roughly the same time. My first niece was born in December of one year, the second was born the following February. There was understandably a lot of excitement surrounding these events, and I got swept up in it by reading one of the many copies of the pregnancy bible What to Expect When You're Expecting that were floating around our homes at the time. It is a book that both demystifies and terrifies. It's the size of a brick, and while it is generally a positive, upbeat book about the miracle of pregnancy, approximately 89% of its contents are about all the ways in which genetics, environmental factors, acts of god, and human error can wreak havoc on your childbearing experience.

I've been revisiting it (and a stack of other pregnancy books) recently, and it reminded me of a little comic I drew years ago. If feels far more relevant to me now than it did when I drew it for obvious reasons:(click to enlarge)

We're now less than two months away from our expected due date, and all seems to be going well. (Please knock on some nearby wood, dear reader, just to be safe.)