Table of Contents
Introduction xi
Chapter 1 The Real World 1
Chapter 2 How Daring All the Wrong Guys Led Me to the Right One 19
Chapter 3 Should I or Shouldn't I? Coming to the Decision to Cet Pregnant 31
Chapter 4 What Being Preggers Is REALLY Like 41
Chapter 5 What I Didn't Expect When I Was Expecting 51
Chapter 6 Labor Day 65
Chapter 7 The New Mom Daze & Haze 79
Chapter 8 On the Boob 93
Chapter 9 If You Don't Snooze, You Lose 105
Chapter 10 The Shortest & Longest Year of My Life 113
Chapter 11 Regaining Your Sense of Self 123
Chapter 12 The Pressure to Give Your Child (and Yourself) a Pinterest-worthy Life 133
Chapter 13 The Terrible & Not-So-Terrible Twos 139
Chapter 14 One & Done 145
Chapter 15 Cotta Love the Grandparents 153
Chapter 16 Southern Charming 161
Conclusion What You Cain as a Mom (Besides Baby Weight) 175
Acknowledgments 185
