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I had done a lot of research on random things before getting pregnant-- I was ready to try a few months before our agreed upon TTC start date, so researching made me feel better. I'm a weirdo. So I had picked out our hospital and had a rough birth plan (all natural, because if I could do it, why not, and I didn't like the idea of being stuck in the bed with an epidural if I could help, if you were wondering ) I knew I wanted to breastfeed and had read a ton on here about it, plus talked to my sister a lot when she was doing it, but that's about all the research I did on that until she was here-- when I started obsessively googling and researching during our marathon late night nursing sessions!

A lot of the other stuff we took as it came. Like, the 12 week u/s, we got mostly because we wanted to see the baby sooner than 20 weeks. We pretty much signed up for whatever tests seemed to be the norm and didn't give it much thought past that. Parenting philosophies I felt like, and still feel like now that C is 5 weeks old, I would do what felt right to me in the moment, not what one book says I should do.

At this point I think they only things you need to worry about are picking a doctor/hospital, if you haven't already, and making sure you know what to avoid during pregnancy particularly meds (basically don't take anything without asking your doctor). You've got plenty of time to think about the other stuff.

The beginning of my third tri I started researching all that. We took books on vacation and read all we could. I also read a lot of gear guides from HB.

I probably researched sleep most heavily.

I started researching once I hit my second trimester - that was when I really started to feel OK about the pregnancy and not constantly worrying that something would happen.