If you're lucky, you'll be pregnant with a friend

Last night, I think I wore my Uniqlo skinny jeans for the last time before the baby arrives. Those jeans were incredible - 17 weeks and 1 day. I could MAYBE squeeze another week out of them, but it would be an uncomfortable week. As my friend said last night, for your first pregnancy, you sort of are in denial about the fact that you will be needing maternity clothes so you try to get through as much as possible without them. Then, when you start wearing them, you're like, "Why didn't I do this a long time ago?". ha ha ha

But that's not what I'm going to wax on about today. I did enough of that yesterday.

Today I am going to give you the top 5 reasons to have a baby with a friend. I don't know if anyone actually PLANS to be pregnant the same time as friends, but we have hit the jackpot with pregnant friends lately. We have two friends that are having a baby in the same MONTH as us (August) and another couple that is due 3 weeks after us. Not to mention the people scattered about between now and then. It never fails that every few weeks, we get the news that someone else is expecting.

So, in no particular order, I give you the Top 5.

5: You will always have someone that knows what you are going through, at about the same time as you. I feel really lucky because my friend MB is 3 weeks ahead of me and my friend HC is 3 weeks after me. This way I can get the heads up from MB but also give some heads up to HC. These two women have been a godsend - never failing to make me feel normal through email or a quick phone call. I foresee this being helpful after giving birth as well - since some of my friends will have overlapping maternity leaves as me.

4: You have someone to whine to other than your husband. I think my husband is incredible and puts up with a lot of whining. But sometimes, I think it might be too much for him, so I know I can whine to someone else about it since they likely will be whining about the same thing. (One could argue that i do a fair share on whining on this blog!)

3: If your pregnant friend lives near you, your kids might be friends. You at least have play date potential with people you already know and like.

2: Again, if the pregnant friend(s) live near you, you can research childcare options together, or even contemplate nanny sharing.

1: This is like #5, but for the husbands. Most days, by the time I get home and do some sort of workout, I am on the couch for the rest of the night and in bed no later than 9. I can rally for special events, but there has been a lot of home time lately, something that my husband and I aren't that good at. Thankfully, HC's husband, A, is there to go out on dates with my husband. They recently went to a Vampire Weekend concert together and said they were one of the few 2-guy couples there. I joked last night that I might make them T-shirts that say, "Our Wives Are Pregnant".