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One of my daughters recently asked me, as I was laying on the couch and drifting off from fatigue, "Mama, is it nice being pregnant?" I'll tell you what I told her. "Well, honey, not always. Sometimes it's really hard. Sometimes it hurts. Sometimes it's beautiful, especially feeling the baby move. Sometimes it's wonderful to sit and dream up their names and their futures. Sometimes it's boring and you'll forget you're even pregnant. You'll eventually forget the nausea, the discomfort, the heartburn, the leg cramps, the insomnia. You won't forget holding your baby for the first time, or sitting with your six year old reading a book on the couch, or talking with your preteens about their own hopes and dreams. The juice is always worth the squeeze."


So is it hard, yes. It's physically, emotionally and mentally taxing to be pregnant and birth a lot of babies. After they're here and you're raising them a strange thing happens; the more children you have the easier it gets. You chill out as a mother, the older siblings set good examples for the young ones, they become close friends and enjoy taking care of and playing with each other. But pregnancy and post partum are things we mamas are primarily burdened with.


There are things that you can do to help. Staying fit, lifting weights, eating nutritious food, getting good sleep all help, regardless if you have a nice, boring pregnancy and vaginal delivery or if you have a complicated c section delivery.