Belly laughs!

I'm currently reading Jenny McCarthy's "Belly Laughs."  A couple of weeks ago my mother in law told me about JM's book "Baby Laughs" and told me I should read it. She brought it over for me (thanks Patty!) and I started reading it. It's about Jenny's very honest, raw experience with birthing her first baby and beyond. But after getting a couple chapters in, I realized I wanted to read her book "Belly Laughs" first.  Baby Laughs = about having a new baby.  Belly Laughs= about being pregnant with your baby. And as I'm still pregnant, I thought it'd be satisfying to read about the pregnancy first. So I hopped (ok waddled) over to the library and took the book out.

Now I've never been a big Jenny McCarthy fan, I've never hated her, just have had no feelings towards her at all really. But I have to say, I think everyone should read this book! Women who are pregnant, women who have been pregnant, women who want to be pregnant someday, women who aren't sure if they ever want to go through pregnancy and whose pregnant friends are scaring them even more and sending them straight across the pond to adopt cute little Chinese babies (hello Gina ;)), and most importantly, the men in our lives! Because, while it's not incredibly well written (the author is still Jenny McCarthy people!), it is quite the honest, funny, unforgiving experience of a pregnant woman! And I'm not talking about you "i never felt sick once pregnancy is so wonderful and beautiful i wish i could be pregnant all the time" girls. You girls go read something serene and calm and annoying. Everyone else, who has actually experienced the PAIN of pregnancy (not labor, I'm not there yet, I have no real knowledge), I'm talking pregnancy pain, you should be reading this book.  Because for the last few months I have talked to waaaay too many of those "I loved every second of my pregnancy and was not uncomfortable until 39 weeks" girls and was starting to feel like I was the most incompetent preggo ever! Then I started reading this book and seriously, me and Jenny, TWINS. Every time I get to a new chapter (which happens every page and a half, again guys, Jenny McCarthy writing), I'm like "I HAVE THAT TOO!" Seriously, every chapter!! (Well ok except for 2 chapters. I don't think I'm retaining water yet and I have not, as Jenny has, cracked two ribs out yet because of how ridiculously stretched out my body is, but I'm chalking that up to the fact that I'm only 25.5 weeks and some of these symptoms don't show up until later in the 3rd trimester ... oh yay more to look forward to! haha) 

The book is really short and to the point so it only took me a couple of days to read, but I have it out of the library for another couple weeks and am trying to figure out how to get my lovely hubs to read it.  Jenny, very blatantly, shares the ridiculous symptoms that no one else talks about being pregnant because, well, they're kind of inappropriate to bring up in conversation, but it has been so satisfying reading that someone else (a former playboy bunny for God sakes!) has felt the same ickiness (we're talking way more than nausea here!) that I have :) And I think it would help Scotty to see that I'm totally not crazy and demanding, that all pregnant women are like this (and we have no control over it) and that while it's not entirely his fault if I cry because he doesn't dust the coffee table enough, he should still do it more often anyways just because. :) (For the record, he's starting to dust the coffee table and wipe the kitchen counters without me having to ask or cry! Success!)

Anywho, if you're looking for a quick read and want to know what really goes on in your body (besides the whole miracle!) during those 9 long months, stop by the library (its such a quick read it may not be worth your money to purchase), and check out the book! I'll let you know how Baby Laughs is. I've got to hold off reading it for another month or so because I already want to be holding my baby boy and it will just make me more anxious!  And as bad as being up all night with a crying baby is and as bad as your sore nursing breasts hurt, it still can't be as bad as the pregnancy pains because you actually have the baby there to remind you how lucky and blessed you are and how worth it it is/was :) (102 days!!)