| My pregnancy calendar was invaluable when I | | | | each day of my pregnancy. Some times it was about |
| became pregnant with my first child. I had little idea | | | | the baby and what stage of development it had |
| about the way a baby grew during pregnancy. I knew | | | | reached. Sometimes it was about my pregnancy, |
| how it began, how long it would take, and even the | | | | giving information about things I may be feeling or |
| options on how the baby would come out, but not | | | | experiencing throughout the various stages. Other |
| much about the actual process. | | | | times it was general information about keeping the |
| I found the pregnancy calendar online on the morning I | | | | baby and I healthy, e.g. on exercise and nutrition. |
| discovered that I was pregnant. Having stopped | | | | From my pregnancy calendar I learned what tests |
| dancing around with excitement, I wanted to know | | | | would be undertaken during each trimester, why these |
| when the baby would be born. A quick internet search | | | | were taken and what the procedure would be. Each |
| revealed several places where I could get this | | | | month a new diagram would show me how the baby |
| information, and having checked a few of them out, I | | | | now looked, and how my body was adjustinginternally |
| decided that one looked like it would help me the most | | | | to accommodate the new life within it. |
| in my quest for information. | | | | From the day I had the positive result, until the day |
| At that time, I had no idea how much I would come to | | | | before the baby was born, the first thing I checked |
| rely on the pregnancy calendar that I was able to set | | | | each morning was the pregnancy calendar. |
| up once Id filled in the necessary information to get a | | | | Occasionally I did get impatient and read ahead of my |
| due date. At first I thought it was just a trimester by | | | | actual stage, but this just allowed me to prepare |
| trimester account of what to expect, but within a few | | | | myself in readiness for the path ahead. With the |
| days I learned that it was far more than that. | | | | pregnancy calendar's guidance I felt safe that I was |
| The pregnancy calendar gave me information for | | | | doing things right and that all would be well. |