About Pregnancy:

• Take pictures during pregnancy.  You may not want to — especially toward the end when you no longer fit in vertical shots, but you’ll enjoy laughing at them years later!
• Have backup names.  You never know if your baby just won’t look like his/her chosen name.  Like my husband for instance.  When he was born, his Mom decided that the name “Susan” she had chosen for her baby just didn’t fit. 
• About Pee.  Sometimes, especially in the last month of pregnancy, Moms experience a phenomenon called Involuntary Voiding of Urine.  This is also known as “peeing when you’re not really peeing.”  It happens.  But sometimes PWYNRP can be a sign of your water breaking.  In this case, get to the hospital!
• Enjoy sleeping on your stomach while you can.
• Enjoy sleeping while you can.
• Don’t eat too much.  Yes you are now “eating for two,” but don’t get confused and eat for 3 or even 4, because if you do, you will later need to eat for 1/2 to lose the extra weight!
• Invest now in a comforable Baby Carrier — like a Bjorn.  Carriers are a great way to keep your hands free while holding your new baby and still doing other important things at the same time — like showering, jogging, and driving. 
• Don’t register for the Wipes Warmer.  In reality you will be holding a clean diaper in your teeth while changing your baby on the back seat floor of your mini van and digging through your diaper bag for whatever wipe you can find — regardless of its temperature.
• Diaper Champs are great.  Diaper Champs use real bags not special refill bags and it’s easy to stuff and flip dirty diapers in.  But watch out.  Once babies are standing up it’s also easy for them to stuff and flip your car keys.  We’re pretty sure this is the way we lost our Fisher Price Loving Family Mommy, leaving our Loving Family as a now “blended family.”
• Don’t be embarrassed about False Alarm trips to the Hospital during the last month.  I heard, “No, it wasn’t your water… just pee again” a couple of times before finally making it to the Hospital for the real thing!
• Give Up Dignity.  Yeah, go ahead.  You might as well do it now.  Your stomach will be touched and patted by strangers.  And your previously-private body parts will be prodded, examined, and measured many, many times.  It’s all part of the initiation into motherhood.  Plus… it’s also preparation for Game Day when you will have an audience of 5 or 6 down there watching the Big Moment! 
• Enjoy every moment!  You are a Mommy.  Congratulations!