My First Trimester Top 10

Top 10 Pregnancy Joys
1. Watching Stephen become excited about being a father.
2. Seeing our baby and hearing its heart beat via ultrasound.
3. Learning about our baby's amazing weekly growth and development. (This week, it's forming skeletal bones, buds for teeth, and producing 250,000 neurons every minute!)
4. I have a completely valid excuse for surprise hormonal attacks. Yay.
5. My everyday bra is capable of producing results that could rival a Wonderbra.
6. I finally have a justifiable reason to buy some new clothes.
8. For the first time in years, I can eat fast food without feeling guilty about it... hey, at least it's getting something in my stomach.
9. I can let myself rest and be unproductive for large spans of time without feeling guilty about it.
10. Seeing adorable children in public and knowing that one day soon we will have our own adorable child to love and enjoy.

Top 10 Pregnancy Annoyances
1. Afernoon, evening, midnight, and morning sickness.
2. Indigestion, and all the unpleasant conditions it causes.
3. I was prepared for the alcohol abstinence, but not the deli meats. Nine months without a Subway sandwich is cruel and unusual punishment.
4. Not being able to cook due to lack of energy and inability to withstand the smells of cooking... hence way too much fast food eating.
5. The list of foods I can think about eating without feeling queasy is even shorter than this list. Food aversions stink.
6. The return of my high school complexion.
7. The return of my middle school hormonal roller coaster.
8. Feeling like I haven't slept in days, even if all that I've done all day is sleep.
9. Worrying about the financial stress that our little bundle of joy is going to bring with it.
10. Seeing crying children in public... and knowing that is going to be our reality very, very soon.