Knocked Up Confessions Of A Mother-to-be

Apparently, life is not what happens to you when you're busy making other plans. Life is what happens when there's an open bar.... Newspaper columnist Rebecca Eckler is the first to admit she's never considered herself mother material. What kind of mother lives on Fruit Loops, never misses a party or a night out on the town, and doesn't even own an oven mitt? When Eckler finds herself pregnant at age thirty, she is forced to address these and other questions, including: How will being pregnant affect her job (will the Sexy Young Intern steal her column?), her love life (her fiance lives in a different city), and her goal of having Janet Jackson abs? In this sidesplitting, hormonally challenged chronicle of getting bigger by the minute, Eckler reveals the truth about Pregnancy Books: "I am never studying another pregnancy book again until I absolutely have no choice. It will be just like high school. When I start having contractions, I'll cram." Cravings: "If I don't get a Starbucks iced latte in the next five minutes, I. Will. Kill. Somebody. I will actually physically hurt whoever gets in the way of me and my iced latte." Brushing up on the Basics: "This little piggy went to the market. This little piggy went to...the zoo? The superstore? The spa?" Labor: "If six billion women can have a baby come out of them, so can I. But what if I'm the one pregnant woman who can't?" Daddy's Empathy: "Are you going to puke? Because tell me if you are, and I'll tell the driver to pull over."Eckler, Rebecca is the author of 'Knocked Up Confessions Of A Mother-to-be', published 2005 under ISBN 9780345475756 and ISBN 0345475755.