Thrills and spills

Here's my personal list of the pros and cons of having a baby so soon into a marriage:

Pros
1. Hubby is pleased that the world views him as a premium sperm-producing stud.
2. The gob-smacked expressions of the people around you as you break the news to them just when they enquire if you'd developed your wedding pictures yet.
3. You get to 'recover' the ang-pow monies in the soonest time possible come Chinese New Year.
4. You can attribute turning up late for work and why you hadn't even started on that project that was due 3 months ago to an excessively intolerable bout of morning sickness.
5. You can finally stop walking around like you've got a grenade stuck up your a#@ and let it all hang out. 'Well, i suppose i'm just one of those who shows really early' you reply indignantly when they enquire about your big tum tum.
6. For the first time, you develop a cleavage!!! (that is enough reason to want to get knocked up fast.)
7. You can make hubby do all the housework while you watch telly and eat ice-cream because its hard work enough having his baby.
10. You have the perfect excuse to launch into a no-holds barred shopping frenzy.

Cons
1. Everyone else is bitching behind your back that you two have absolutely no self control and "there was definitely a bulge under her dress on their wedding day!"
2. You lose that gorgeous sexy figure that you dieted so hard for just to fit into the wedding dress almost as soon as the wedding ends.
3. You haven't even settled the credit card bills for the special floral arrangement that you ordered for your wedding reception and now you got to start buying bottle sterilizers from toddlers' paradise.
4. Suddenly you realise you can't run after a cab, jump across the drain to get to the other side, skip when your boss gives you a raise, lie anything but sideways when you sleep, etc...
5. Giving up some of your favourite indulgences like your montly massages, soft-boiled egg with your kopi and kaya toast at yakun, once-weekly drinking sessions with your galpals, sigh...