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30 Pregnancy Stories to Make You Laugh Out Loud

Pregnancy is a battle, and sometimes if you don’t laugh, you’ll cry, so making the most of it through humor is key! If you’re pregnant or have been pregnant, you know you can’t go through it without there being some funny stories to tell. I absolutely love hearing funny pregnancy stories, so I thought I’d share a few that I’ve collected from some other mamas who were generous enough to share a funny pregnancy story or two with me!

“My mom and I were driving to my brother’s house for thanksgiving and I saw a pie shop. I started sobbing, while saying “I want pie mama” and she laughed so hard it made my crying worse. Very embarrassing moment, because she told my entire family”

“I have this issue that started sometime in my third trimester and hasn’t stopped even though my kid is 3 now…If I get sick and go into a coughing fit I pee myself. I had to start wearing bladder leakage pads when I have a cold!”

“I taught high school science when I was pregnant up until I had the baby. I obviously have many interesting stories but the best was on my due date. My students were super confused as to why I was at school and not having the baby. One of my super naïve students asked me in front of the class if he could catch the baby because it was my due date and I was going to have her. He added that he’s a football player so he can catch pretty well. And he was 100% serious, hand motions, crouching and everything. Needless to say the other teachers in the room and I died laughing; the other students were either appalled or in agreeance and we decided to have a little discussion about birth… And I peed myself laughing…but it was worth it”

“They had my walking around in the hospital when my water broke and I slipped and fell on my ass. The nurses were frozen until they realized I couldn’t get up because I was laughing so hard.”

“I tripped and fell on lunch break from work at Taco Bell. I’m a nurse so when I got back to work the girls wanted to check my bumps and scrapes and bandage me up, etc. I probably hadn’t shaved in two weeks. I could barely reach or keep my balance in our tiny shower so I really only shaved if I had a dr. appointment. So embarrassing!”

“My son came very quick and I just had eaten curry. I pooped on the table and I know it because I had no drugs during my labor. The nurse was nice and handled it but I was embarrassed!”

“My first son was born in November, and I worked right up to my due date. The entire office was on red alert watching over me—the office manager had contingency plans in case I went into labor at work during a snow storm. I think it involved covering the break room table with newspaper…Also, one of my male co-workers would throw all kinds of weird breast feeding advice at me because his wife was a La Leche League leader (he meant well…)”

“When my water broke with my son it wouldn’t stop! (Duh!) My daughter kept telling people after that mommy was leaking all over the house!”

“I really wanted vegetables one night. Like a hearty roasted vegetable salad. We couldn’t think of anything and finally settled on Pick Up Sticks. I was so disappointed, angry, frustrated and hungry!! And I started to cry saying that it wasn’t fair!”

“When I was 9 months pregnant with my daughter I lived in Hawaii and there were geckos living in the house. One day I was washing grapes and dropped a few on the floor. Not being able to see my feet, when I stepped on something squishy that popped under my foot I thought it was a grape. So I wipe my foot on the kitchen rug and go to clean up what I thought was a grape only to realize it was a gecko that I stepped on! Being an overly-emotional pregnant woman I cried like a baby and buried the tissue with the gecko guts and what was left of the gecko behind our house.”

“I put the cheese in the drawer and the knife in the fridge. My husband was deployed, I continued to eat, feed my kids, etc… I only found out only 4 days later when my drawer smelled. Then I cried about it for a good 15 mins.”

“I was flying solo back home with my son while pregnant with #2 (husband deployed again), I packed up, pulled my kid out of school, had a friend drop us off, and was ready to check in. I found we weren’t flying until the next day.”

“I didn’t get emotional and cry during my pregnancy, I had laughing fits! My husband would say something or something would pop up in my head and I’d start giggling only to not stop for like, half an hour. When it would start my husband would turn to me and go “oh no”, haha!”

“I talked utter nonsense in my sleep where my husband was left tired and confused.”

“Literally, I would pee myself when I sneeze or cough! Like, I had stash of clean undies in my purse when I’m out of the house so I can change. LOL! Until now, I find myself crossing my legs when I’m going to do both to hold it in. I no longer pee myself now but I think my muscle remembers it so it does it automatically. LOL!!!”

“I put the cheese in the drawer and the knife in the fridge. My husband was deployed, I continued to eat, feed my kids, etc… I only found out only 4 days later when my drawer smelled. Then I cried about it for a good 15 mins. Another time I was flying solo back home with my son while pregnant with #2 (husband deployed again), I packed up, pulled my kid out of school, had a friend drop us off, and was ready to check in. I found we weren’t flying until the next day.”

“I didn’t get emotional and cry during my pregnancy, I had laughing fits! My husband would say something or something would pop up in my head and I’d start giggling only to not stop for like, half an hour. When it would start my husband would turn to me and go “oh no”, haha!”

“I ordered lemonade and then cried about it in the Chick-fil-a drive through! I hate lemonade.”

“My husband and I were visiting his family. Suddenly I felt sick, so I ran to the bathroom. As I was throwing up, I also managed to pee myself. Thankfully, I was able to get his attention from around the corner to let him know that we needed to GO!”

“I naively went to a standard OB appointment for our surrogate. She was about 6 months pregnant with our daughter at the time. After the appointment, I waited outside the door for her to come out. A few minutes turned into a half an hour. As soon as she opened the door, she burst out loudly, “My hoo-ha is purple! Like Barney the dinosaur purple!” Trying to keep my cool I asked if I should be worried? Her response, “nah the Dr just treated me for yeast infection”. Ahhh… awesome. So I left to get back to work. A few minutes after I sat at my desk, I received a text message. It was an under carriage picture of a purple vagina in all of its glory. My eyes will never un-see that. To this day, I hate the color purple.”

“While standing in line at the grocery store once, a random woman came up to me and rubbed my 8 month belly. I of course, feeling violated immediately returned the gesture. Yes, I rubbed her belly!
She was disgusted. She started “you can’t just…” she never finished. She just walked away. One lady to the side of me laughed hysterically while another woman in front of me kept saying, “good for you!” It was my first “mama bear” moment.”

“While attending MommyCon at 6 months pregnant, I lost my wits over avocado. I wanted to eat, but all the lines for food were 45 min long. So I stopped at submarina and ordered a chicken breast something…with avocado. They were out of avocado. I don’t know why but I went to the restroom and bawled my eyes out because they ran out of avocado. I was so hungry and tired and just wanted some dang avocado!”

“During my first pregnancy. I put dish soap in the freezer, strawberries on top of the fridge and an empty lunch bag in the refrigerator….all in one day.”

“I almost strangled my husband for eating my sweet treats. I bought some I specifically New he didn’t like. He them and all the other “sweets” He even ate a snickers bar I had hidden. I never really craved sweet while pregnant but when I did the craving was strong. To be fair he was preparing to take the CPA exam, but I damn near almost killed him. In the end I just cried.”

“One time my baby was kicking so hard, she woke my husband up. Apparently my pregnant belly was snuggled up to him and the movement jolted him awake.”

“I was pregnant with my first child and sitting at home alone on the couch watching Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. It had gone to commercial and was running one of those ASPCA commercials for abused animals. When my husband walked through the door all he saw was me sitting on the couch bawling my eyes out. He instantly ran over to me to see what was wrong and all I could say was I wanted to send money to the abused animals! I’m not usually a big animal lover, so he really cracked up since this was so out of the ordinary for me. The combination of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and that stupid commercial mixed with the pregnancy hormones had me such a mess lol”

“I am not a small woman – 5′ 10″ and never could be called skinny. But my first pregnancy I was ENORMOUS!
We lived in an old farmhouse with a wonderfully comfy claw-foot tub, the kind where the slope of the back is just right for leaning against while you read in the tub. My husband had been out of town on business and was coming home that evening. I did the chores and fed the chickens, then went up to have a bath. I got in the tub at about 1 PM, with a book and a cup of tea, ready to relax. As the water chilled I used my toes to turn on the hot and add a little. After about an hour I set aside my book and started to get out of the tub. I couldn’t do it. I could not get my legs under me far enough to stand up – my belly was in the way. The tub walls were too high for me to pull and push myself up with my arms and too narrow for me and my belly to turn around and get on my hands and knees and get out that way. My husband got home about 7:30 and called out to me. I answered that I was in the tub. He came upstairs and I asked him to help me out of the tub. As he did so, I explained what had happened and how I had been trapped in the tub for over 6 hours; he laughed so hard I thought he was going to drop me back in the tub!”

“I have a super embarrassing one lol but no shame in my game. When I was pregnant with my daughter over the summer, she was sitting really low and in my back. Towards the end she was constantly pushing on my bladder and I constantly felt like I had to pee or poop. I was at my husband’s gym helping him clean and I was super gassy. Decided to let one rip to see if it would help and shat myself.”

“So I was pregnant with my son and we were pulling into a store’s parking lot (it may have been target…) and I feel this huge pressure. I tell my husband I need out of the car immediately and he’s like babe I’m going to pull through this parking spot to be facing out (like he does at every opportunity) so I finally get out of the car and am trying to get to the store and my water breaks. So I’m half jogging to the store but freaking out and of course the women’s bathroom has three women coming out of it as I’m desperate to get in so I’m kinda pushing people out of the way ruder than I’ve ever been in my life. I have no idea who saw me doing my weird pregnant lady run or who had to clean that mess off the floor….can never forget where I was that day. Haha.”

“I was pregnant with my son and at the ultrasound, we were told the umbilical cord was attached to the side instead of the center. I was extremely upset by this news and couldn’t stop crying on the way home. Have you ever heard of a person having their belly button on the side of their body instead of being centered? Yeahh, me neither! So of course I was very distressed my child would grow up with his belly button on his side and was worried how other people would treat him. My husband even gave my unborn son the nickname “little Sammy side door” to try and find some humor in the situation. My husband ended up calling his mom, who was a pediatric nurse, to give her the distressing news. He calmly explained the bad situation and her response in a very stern voice, ‘Derek, that’s absolutely the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard it my life! It’s not possible for your belly button to be on the side of your body! The Dr. meant it was off center on the placenta, not the baby’s actual body!'”

Aren’t these amazing?! I honestly feel like I can’t even top these funny pregnancy stories!! But I have pregnancy-farted in public and blamed a dog or someone else, I’ve peed in the shower because it was just more convenient, and when my water broke, I showed up to the hospital wearing an entire towel as a pad. Trust me, whatever happens during your pregnancy, laugh at it, because you will never again have as good of an excuse to pee your pants a little bit!!

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Five Truths that Sum Up Motherhood

There are so many feelings that describe what being a mom is really like. Truthfully, I could never comprehend the intensity of motherhood before I had kids. If you’re reading this and are pregnant with your first, just know that everything everyone says is true, but you won’t really understand how real it all is until your baby is here. I know that probably won’t make a lot of sense, but I promise it will once your baby arrives.

We spent the last week traveling to see family, and unfortunately we were all sick. My daughter was up multiple times each night, and during one of these midnight rocking sessions, I started thinking about what intense, raw feelings motherhood encompasses. I tried to sum it up in 5 phrases that ring very very true for me:

Five Truths that Sum Up Motherhood:

You’re Tired.

If you don’t have kids yet, I’m sorry but you don’t understand. Before I had kids, I thought I understood what was coming. NOPE! The exhaustion is just unreal. I’m honestly a little worried about having a newborn again; those first few months of the newborn stage are such a blur to me sometimes because I was in such a fog of not having slept! Sleep does get better of course, but it doesn’t mean you’re not still sleep deprived in some way or another!

You’re Worried.

I worry about everything. EVERYTHING! The ridiculous things that cross my mind of potential things to worry about is insane. I’d love to meet a mother who isn’t worried constantly, because I truly want to know your secrets. I realize that 90% of the things I worry about won’t ever happen, but it doesn’t mean I don’t still worry about them.

You’re a Hot Mess.

I’m super envious of all the Instagram moms I see that look gorgeous, have this beautiful hair and makeup, are all looking perfectly slim and beautiful in nice outfits with a couple kids attached to them. This has never, nor ever will be me. The other day when we were flying back from Pennsylvania, I had banana all over my outfit. ALL OVER. Nothing is sacred here anymore. Food is on everything. I can’t even count the number of food or item particles that have ended up in my hair. My fashion sense is just ridiculous, but even if it wasn’t, I couldn’t keep a pretty outfit free of toddler messes. I wish I could be like those Instagram moms, but I’m just not. And I’m ok with it! Mostly. I still wish I had perfect skin that only needed a tinted moisturizer, or a cute little body that looked great in just jeans and a chunky sweater. Or hair that held a curl…I’d take that too.

You’re Annoyed.

I feel like my patience levels have been drastically altered since my first pregnancy. I honestly can’t remember how patient I was before I ever got pregnant, but now I can tell you I’m way more annoyed than I ever remember being. Not at my kid, but just random things in general, and mostly I’m annoyed at myself. And maybe some of this is due to being pregnant again, but it’s the little things. For example, I wanted to buy a gift card for someone at Target. I went to Target, got a bunch of stuff and came out with NO gift card, and didn’t remember until I got home. WHY!? Why can’t I remember ONE THING?! Because #mombrain. It’s real.

You love like you’ve never loved before.

This is the piece of the puzzle that (for me) makes motherhood the best thing in the entire world. You can’t even imagine the kind of love you have for your baby until s/he arrives. It’s unbelievable. My heart literally aches with love for my daughter, and even my unborn son that I haven’t met yet. I was never someone who always wanted to be a mom, yet when I think of the things that define me now, the only thing I hold on solidly to is being a mother. It feels like it’s the only thing I never knew I wanted, until she was here. The love you have for your children is something so special, it will always make every single hard day worth it. If you’re pregnant or waiting for kids of your own, get ready to be amazed at this incredible love that you never knew you even had in you.

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Perfectly #basic, homemade-by-mom, amazing chocolate chip cookies

Perfectly #basic, homemade chocolate chip cookies that are amazing. You'll never need another recipe again!

Chocolate chip cookies are my favorite cookies to bake; I especially love making them at Christmas time because of the nostalgic memories I have from baking with my mom during the holidays as a kid. I’m never one to re-invent the wheel when it comes to a good recipe; I’ve used this chocolate chip cookie recipe for years, and love it. Here are my tips for making a perfect batch of delicious and easy chocolate chip cookies:

·       Use the recipe I’ve linked above. It’s SUPER EASY, and the cookies are delicious, I promise. It’s basically foolproof. I guess to make things easier I’ll write it out below, but all credit is to Dora from All Recipes!

·       Refrigerate the dough overnight. I have no scientific proof of why this makes the cookie so good, but it does. Trust me. Let it thaw out for about an hour or so, and then get to making your balls!

·       ALWAYS USE PARCHMENT PAPER! Don’t be spraying your cookie pans. I honestly never started using parchment paper until about a year ago, and now I’m like wtf was wrong with me that I never bought this stuff?? I now buy it in bulk at Sam’s Club because if I run out, I won’t know what to do. I use it for anything that goes on a cookie sheet, and into the oven. Just buy it and try it. Again, I promise you won’t be disappointed. 

·       This recipe made exactly 3 dozen cookies for me. I make the balls a little smaller than a golf ball, and I don’t flatten them.

·       Bake them at 350 for about 10-12 minutes depending on your oven (mine were about 12 mins). Open the oven, and using an oven mitt, grab the pan a bang them about 5-10 times until the puff in the middle of the cookie is deflated. (I got this idea from Sarah Kieffer, a local food blogger)

·       Bake them again for 3-4 minutes, and repeat the banging to remove the remaining center poof. Once they’re done, they should look like this: Perfect. Instagram-picture-worthy. Santa-worthy. Dunk-in-milk-worthy. #basicbutbeautiful.

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Perfectly #Basic Home-Made-By-Mom, Amazing Chocolate Chip Cookies

The only chocolate chip cookie recipe you'll ever need to make gorgeous and delicious chocolate chip cookies!

Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes
Servings 3 Dozen

Ingredients

  • 1 Cup Butter Soften it! Take the sticks out and let them sit there for an hour or so.
  • 1 Cup White Sugar
  • 1 Cup Packed Brown Sugar
  • 2 Eggs
  • 2 tsp Vanilla Extract
  • 3 Cups All Purpose Flour
  • 1 tsp Baking Soda
  • 2 tsps Hot Water
  • 1/2 tsp Salt
  • 2 Cups Semisweet Chocolate Chips (sometimes I use 3)

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350. 

  2. I mixed the butter and sugars together, then added the eggs, and everything else. Basically just mix it up in the order it's listed here, then refrigerate the dough overnight.

  3. When you take it out, let it thaw for a while until it's pliable.

  4. Form into balls a little smaller than a golf ball, and put them on a parchment-lined cookie sheet. Bake for 10-12 minutes, then bang the pan 5-10 times on the oven rack to remove the "cookie poof".

  5. Continue baking for another 2-3 minutes, bang again to remove remaining poof, and then take out to cool!

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Here’s some pictures of my steps along the way. If you have any questions feel free to reach out!! Enjoy!

This is what the cookies will look like before you bang the “poof” out of them. (This is after about 10-12 minutes)

Bang the pan several times on the oven rank to remove some “cookie poof” in the center. They should look like this.

Bake them for another 2-3 minutes (you want the edges to be a little brown). Then, bang the pan again to remove all center cookie poof.

Voila. PERFECT and gorgeous chocolate chip cookies!! Super moist, a little crunchy on the outside and chewy on the inside!

How to Decorate A Small Powder Room for Christmas

In my opinion, powder rooms are the easiest rooms to decorate. They’re usually smaller (ours is really tiny), and only have a couple options for decorations, which makes it really easy to find key pieces to accent for the holidays!

My favorite holiday is Christmas, and of course I’ve been getting a head start. Bath and Body Works is my first and favorite stop for getting in the Christmas Mood. You just can’t beat their candle scents, soaps and wallflowers, and I always stock up on sale days (and you can too, because they’ve donated a $50 gift card to give away to a reader!! Hit the bottom of the post for that!).

This year I picked up some of my absolute must-haves from B&BW for the powder room on our first floor (in addition to every other room, but this post is about powder rooms…HAHA!):

1) Fresh Balsam Hand Soap
2) Fresh Balsam Wallflower and Tree Plugin
3) Evergreen 3-Wick Candle  (you totally thought I was going to say Fresh Balsam right? Don’t worry… that candle is in our kitchen… lol)

Clearly I love Fresh Balsam and Evergreen scents. I have two seasonal favorites that I will never cheat on: Leaves for autumn, and Fresh Balsam for #theentirechristmasseason. I did pick up a ‘Tis the Season 3-wick candle because that scent is pretty amazeballs (my new favorite word that is so dumb but for some reason I love), but in general I stick to my favorites.

Back to the Powder Room:

When I know we’re having guests, I always make sure the powder room is clean and pretty-looking (because, duh). I stick a Bath & Body Works hand soap on the sink, a wallflower with a cute plug-in into the outlet, and a candle on top of the toilet tank. For Christmas, I got this really cute bell from JoAnn’s to adorn next to the candle, this Christmas hand towel from Target and some random Christmas wreath to hang to complete the festive look (I got this silver one from a yard sale), and BOOM. Done.

You can accomplish this look in seriously two stops. Hit up Bath & Body Works on Black Friday for some killer deals (or any time, really, because they always have some great deals going on), then hit Target for a cute towel and some type of holiday wreath or adornment piece, and you’re done! Yes, maybe this is the very simple and lazy mom’s guide to decorating a room for the holidays, but HEY. It works, and I think it looks pretty cute!!

What are your favorite easy ways to decorate for the holidays?!

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Hedgehog Gifts for Hedgehog Lovers, 15 under $15!

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15 gifts for the hedgehog lover in your life! And, they're all under $15!!

I adore hedgehogs–I always have. My husband got me my first hedgehog, Stella, as a Christmas present. She has since passed away, but we will always have a special place in our hearts for hedgehogs. She was the sweetest and cutest thing! If you have a hedgehog lover in your family or friend group, check out these awesome hedgehog gifts for those that love hedgies! Best of all, they won’t break the bank, and all are under $15! Click on each item for more info!

1. This super adorable stuffed hedgehog


2. This cute hedgehog kitchen timer

3. This pretty hedgie scarf

4. A really adorable hedgehog basket

5. This hedgehog cleaning mitt, which comes in multiple colors!

6. This pretty hedgie pillow

 

7. This hedgehog toothbrush holder (I have this–it’s so cute!)

8. These hedgehog dryer balls, which might be too cute to actually use!

9. Hedgehog stickers!

10. A cute hedgehog lunch box

 

11. This hedgehog tote bag

12. This cute hedgehog mug

13. This little hedgehog notepad

14. A little hedgehog coin purse

15. This gorgeous hedgehog necklace that you can have initialed! (I want this so bad!!!) 

 

Which one is your favorite?!

 

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15 gifts for the hedgehog lover in your life! And, they're all under $15!!

The One Pregnancy Symptom You Might Be Missing

If you’ve seen this Instagram post, you know that we’re expecting Baby #2 in April! I’m feeling pretty good now that I’m a couple weeks into the second trimester, and now that my brain isn’t as foggy, I wanted to share the one pregnancy symptom I had this time around that should have been a no-brainer that I was pregnant. Turns out, it’s pretty common, but I totally missed it!

Anyway…

The symptom?

FORGETFULLNESS.

AKA “Pregnancy Brain”.

It’s real.

And it takes over EVERYTHING!

I thought I had typical Mom Brain this last week (because folks, that’s real, too. You go from Pregnancy Brain to Mom Brain without skipping a beat), and I even thought to myself, “jeez, if I didn’t know any better, I’d think I was pregnant!” insert foot in mouth now

Here’s what I did:

Monday: Drove to the car dealership in my socks. I got halfway there before realizing I was driving with no shoes on. Luckily, my husband was meeting me there, who promptly laughed at my sans-shoes appearance and “you need to go inside because I just don’t have shoes anymore” comment.

Tuesday: Was cleaning out my car, and removed my daughter’s car seat. FORGOT her car seat when I went to pick her up, and then had to text our daycare provider that I was going to be late past the time she was open until, to go BACK home (obviously) and pick up the car seat. I then broke down in tears at daycare, and now I’m pretty sure our sweetheart daycare lady thinks I’m a psychopath.

Wednesday: I forgot to put the car in park. And it started rolling down the driveway. And I had to chase it. Not my proudest moment.

Thursday: Nothing…that I can remember! HA!
Friday: Drove my daughter to daycare and forgot her shoes. So I had to go back and get them, and bring them all the way back to daycare.

Literally, you get the point, right? I forgot SO many things. Honestly, the last couple of weeks my brain has been MUSH, and I’ve chalked it up to quitting my job, the stress of thinking about my new job, and all that comes within that. (Why yes, I’ll take a new job with a new company with a side order of new baby please!! Haha!!)

Turns out, forgetfulness is a common pregnancy side effect. It didn’t take effect on me until further into my first pregnancy (more like third trimester), but it struck early on this time around!

Luckily for me, I have never left my daughter anywhere or forgotten about her. I would probably just lose my bananas if I ever did that, but truth be told my brain needs some assistance right now!

So, how do you combat pregnancy brain (or in my case, pregnancy AND mom brain combined)?!

GO SLOW.

Just go slow. With everything. Every morning, I ask myself (and my daughter) out loud, if I have what I need, and I recite all the things. This was a big step for someone who hates talking to themselves, but since my daughter is there, even though she can’t intelligently answer me, she listens and mumbles something cute!

Write things down. I stuck up a magnetic dry erase family calendar on the fr
idge, and I write our big things on it. It has helped A LOT. I also started using a physical planner again, and not just my phone. I need to write everything down, and recite it several times in my head so I don’t forget it. Hence why I’m writing this post a couple months in advance before I for sure lose my nuggets with this pregnancy, a new job, and a very busy toddler that’s into all the things!

Good luck!! Do you have any tips for pregnancy brain?!

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