There is a lot to hate about being pregnant but there are also a few things to enjoy. I thought that I would struggle to come up with 5 but here are my top 10 things to enjoy about being pregnant.

1. Being able to suspend the gym membership without guilt.
2. Being able to eat anything and blame it on cravings (not that I really believe in cravings but I am willing to keep the illusion up for the good of all pregnant women everywhere.)
3. Saving money on clothes because nobody wants to go shopping for clothes when they look like they have an oversized watermelon stuffed down their top.
4.  Being able to do absolutely nothing yet at the same time be completely productive. I read somewhere that in the first trimester you expend as much energy as a mountain climber so at times I am quite content to sit back and mountain climb away.
5. Thinking of names for the baby and shocking relatives with prospective names.
6. Feeling the baby move and your stomach contort.
7. Being part of a life giving process which is pretty amazing.
8. Getting caught up on all the celebrity gossip of a month or a year ago as I sit in doctors’ waiting rooms reading old magazines.
9. Having really bizarre dreams.
10. The anticipation, not of the birth, but of new life and the possibilities that that life contains. (Also the anticipation of pregnancy ending).

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