A girlfriend of mine gave me a really great pregnancy journal for my birthday this year back in March and I was so excited to get it. I immediately started answering the questions and adding pictures to it. Only problem is, I haven’t opened it in three months. Now every time I walk in the nursery and see it on the shelf I feel guilty. It’s like an extra credit summer assignment that’s sitting there saying to me “you know you want to do this”. I do. I really do want to complete it. I just don’t know where to find the time. Between work and all of the to-do list items at home the pregnancy journal gets pushed to the end of the line. My girlfriend told me that she kept one and her son who is now six loves to look at it and read about the time when he was in mommy’s tummy. Now I feel like a terrible mother. I already have parental guilt. She hasn’t even taken her first breath and I’m letting my little bug down. With only ten or so weeks left to go before the baby girl makes her arrival into the world I’m thinking I’ve got to be able to find an evening here somewhere to at least make a dent in all those empty pages. Scary thing is, this is just the pregnancy journal that I’m concerned about. I haven’t even started her a baby book yet!
Did you keep a pregnancy journal or are you feeling the guilt of not completing one?
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