Item #423 that they don't tell you when you get pregnant: There is TONS of homework.
For you ladies out there, I guarantee the most effective form of birth control is flipping through the "Guide to Your Pregnancy and Newborn." They should make this mandatory reading for all teenage girls.
It turns out there many things that happen over the 9 months that they NEVER show on TV or movies (my main source of truth). I had thought it only really gets bad at the end, but man...it is all a lie. There are things in there that I am too afraid to write about. Let's just say the body can do some strange things...
It doesn't end there. The books also do a great job of mentioning everything that could possible go wrong to the mother and the baby from conception until they graduate college. I'm convinced the purpose of these books is just to scare you out of wanting one.
Not everything was bad though. For example, I learned one of the top three concerns for an expectant father is whether the child actually belongs to him (along with the safety of the wife and the safety of the kid). They even recommend the mom to reassure the father on this fact. God bless America.
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The good news is Monica had the good sense to choose Rishi to be the father of her children. Not every guy is willing to do their homework. Now she just has to work out an equitable feeding and diaper policy. She does all of the feeding, so Rishi does all of the diapers!
Rishi, I hope you are creating cliff notes on all the knowledge you are accumulating! I am glad to hear that you have an excel sheet on the items to purchase(heard from Joohee and Lee).
All of this effort isn't exempting me from diaper duty??
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