Why the detail?

I just wanted to give you all a little background on why I feel it’s necessary to write down every boring pregnancy symptom I am cursed blessed with. Yesterday my mom called to see how I was feeling and we got to discussing when she was pregnant with me. Apparently she went skiing, horseback riding, lifted bags of feed, fed the cows & pigs etc. However right after she found out she was pregnant she started bleeding and she doesn’t remember it being any big deal.

Now maybe it wasn’t to her, but it could have been. I will never know, because all I have is what she remembers and she doesn’t remember it being any big deal. She also told me she thinks she was in the hospital for a week when she was pregnant with me for a cyst. Now while that is interesting, what I would really like to know is how did she feel. Was she worried, was she concerned. None of these things are written anywhere, and as we all know, your memory fades.

Twenty or Thirty years from now when my children start having children I want to be able to remember what I went through. How I felt, what I worried about, etc. So, I want to keep as detailed of a record of it as possible. Which is why, at times, this site will go into much more detail than you care to read. I figure I will leave all the boring TMI details here, and that way people can chose to read, or not to read.