My Biggest Fear About Having The Baby

Friday, June 1, 2012 My Biggest Fear About Having The Baby First off, let me make this clear: at 41, I am profoundly grateful that I am about to become a first-time mother. At nine months pregnant, I love my son already. This kid has been prayed for and paid for. He was a surprise to us, conceived naturally a month before our wedding. The morning we flew to Rome to get married, my fertility doctor -- a superhero who had performed corrective surgery on my uterus, frozen my eggs, seen me through two miscarriages, a post-miscarriage D&C, and one round of IVF that had to be punted into an IUI -- told us compassionately that my pregnancy hormone levels were low, the fetus was abnormally small, and the chances of a miscarriage during the wedding weekend or honeymoon were about 80 percent. There were no tears, just grim expectations, and we flew off to celebrate our marriage with 75 of our closest friends and family. For the full article, click here. WATCH: Toddler Hears Mom For The Very First Time How Spelling Bee Champ Learned To Spell Bedtime: A Never-Ending Game Of Whack-A-Mole? WATCH: Intense Kid Gives Parents 'Sex Advice' Sheryl Sandberg's Cute Story About Thinking Like A Child BLOG POSTS Mia Redrick: How Women Lose Themselves in Motherhood So many women lose themselves in motherhood. I call this the "Silent War," the process of slowly fading away from yourself, your interests and your passions without even realizing it's happening. Jason Alderman: Prepare Your Kids for Summer Job Expenses If your kid is fortunate enough to find work this summer, there are a few things he or she -- and you -- should know about the economic and tax ramifications of temporary employment: Alex McCord: Baby Name or Weapon of Mass Humiliation? What's the worst thing you've ever let your older child do to the younger one? David Katz, M.D.: Unjunking Ourselves! We are, no doubt, all familiar with the expression "you are what you eat," but given how most of us eat, it's quite clear we don't take it very seriously. Sharon Greenthal: How Did She Get That Way? A Mother Reflects On Her College-Grad Daughter As a stay-at-home mom for twenty years, I did a lot of teaching, modeling, explaining, hand-holding, comforting... I also did a lot of learning from both my son Adam, a junior in college, and my daughter Katie, who graduated from Boston University in May.

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