What Having a Honeymoon Baby Is Really Like

1 Pro: You Don't Have to Worry About Whether or Not You Can Get Pregnant

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Maybe you watched a friend struggle to conceive or heard about your own mother's fertility issues and worried that you'd experience a similarly hard time getting pregnant. Instead, you've moved straight on to a new set of problems: the realities of pregnancy.

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2 Con: You Won't Have Time to Work Out the Kinks

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You're just coming down from the high that was your engagement, wedding, and honeymoon, and bam, you're dealing with the nausea, bloating, and exhaustion that's so often involved in creating new life. All that gestating makes it hard to focus on working out the kinks of married life, and in fact, can create a lot of new problems you never anticipated.

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3 Con: You'll Have a Lot of Stressful Decisions to Make Right Away

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When I got pregnant with my honeymoon baby, I lived in a fourth-floor apartment, without an lift or first-floor storage space for a stroller and with a dog who still expected to be walked multiple times a day. Even in my clueless, kid-less state, I knew that probably wasn't going to work long-term. So not only were my new husband and I preparing to be parents, we were also looking for a new home and considering moving to a new town to find one. Double the stress.

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4 Con: Your Friends Might Not Be in the Baby Stage Yet

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In my experience, weddings come in waves within friendship groups. If you were at the beginning of that wave, you're probably going to have to attend lots of what should be superfun engagement parties, showers, and weddings with a belly bump, completely sober, and praying that at least one of your friends comes home with a honeymoon baby, too, so you'll have someone to commiserate with.

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