Nobody Tells You: Urine Samples

Throughout your pregnancy you will visit your obstetrician and during every visit you will be asked to collect and hand over a urine sample. Nobody tells you how hard it is to pee in a cup as the months progress. At first you won't even notice. But as your baby grows, so will your belly. In no time, your arm will feel shorter than before and reaching down below to catch pee in a Dixie-sized cup's going to be messy, hard, and pure comedy.  Near the end of the pregnancy, let's face it, you're just going to wave the cup around below you, hoping to catch random drops of pee. No matter how good your aim, you are definitely going to pee on your hand. It's okay. You can wash up afterward, but nobody's going to tell you this, so I thought I would.