What no one will tell you...

You will pee your pants.
You will glow one day and break-out and swell up like a balloon the next day.
You will love your husband one minute and then find him an a$$hole one minute later.
You won't actually feel pregnant until about week 26.  Until then, you will feel as if you have a "food baby".
Labor is intense, but YOU CAN DO IT. 
Be flexible with your birth plan. 
Plan before anything, a safe and healthy birth.
You are not doomed to "suffer" post-partum depression despite being bombarded with questionnaires telling you that you probably will be.
If you do feel depressed, talk to someone.  Never be too proud to admit to post-partum depression.
If you happen to have an un-medicated birth, you will feel as if the baby is exiting your bum...not your vagina.
And to wrap it all up...bringing it back to the first statement...you will eventually, after birthing children, do think unthinkable in your shorts...#2. 

There you go.  I am giving it to you straight.  I have never been considered one to beat around the bush...and I will sacrifice my modesty and pride and throw it out there.  Because, well, when I was pregnant, I wanted honesty. 

This might all seem horrible...but it is glorious!  I'm grateful to be a mother and to have gone through it all.  I'm stronger.  I'm more patient.  And I feel and give more love than I could have ever imagined

Be Well!
MLC