I couldn't manage to look at anything about actual childbirth until I was about 6-7 months pregnant, it scared me too much.
When I was six weeks pregnant, my sister lent me a book called Giving birth: What it really feels like. I thanked her and then put it far, far away. I also didn't follow the advice my pregnancy book's advice to read the book cover-to-cover early in pregnancy. I could deal with information about the first trimester, and a little bit of information about the second trimester, and that was it.
Around 5 1/2 months, I started being interested in reading about labor and delivery, but it was still too early to get into many actual details about parenting, or buying baby supplies. Now I'm finally ready to do serious thinking about parenting an infant.
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Date: 2005-01-05 04:05 pm (UTC)When I was six weeks pregnant, my sister lent me a book called Giving birth: What it really feels like. I thanked her and then put it far, far away. I also didn't follow the advice my pregnancy book's advice to read the book cover-to-cover early in pregnancy. I could deal with information about the first trimester, and a little bit of information about the second trimester, and that was it.
Around 5 1/2 months, I started being interested in reading about labor and delivery, but it was still too early to get into many actual details about parenting, or buying baby supplies. Now I'm finally ready to do serious thinking about parenting an infant.
Hope you're feeling better.