Ten Tips for Expecting Parents

1. Hormone roulette is real and scarier than you can possibly imagine. The best defense is a good offense and HUMOR is the only thing that can save you.
2. Listen to everyone and ignore all of them -> They are all well meaning, but this is your experience and it will be far different than anything they experienced.
3. Be safe and make the right decisions for you -> if you are high risk, take that seriously, if you aren’t high risk, take that seriously as well. Make the right decision for you and your family.
4. The Borg will consume you! How did our parents and their parents have kids that lived to see their 2nd day without all the crazy stuff you can buy at Kids-r-Us or anywhere else?
5. Have as much sex as possible… (partner willing).
6. Men are affected by hormones as their wives are (at least I was – poor @mjkaiser).
7. Delight in every moment, from the messy to the sublime.
8. Make fun of the baby classes and those that attend (including yourselves) – People are crazy, they should be ridiculed mercilessly.
9. Don’t listen to your Dr. about sports, @mjkaiser was playing soccer into her first trimester (until she got nailed in the belly by the ball), tele-mark skiing well into her second trimester and sail boat racing well into her third trimester.
10. Ignore this post completely!