Whether you have previous experience as a parent or not, we can all agree that pregnancy isn't necessarily all that glorious. It's a beautiful moment in a parent's life as they eagerly await the arrival of their baby, but when we idealize it as something purely idyllic and miraculous, reality kicks in, and we start to realize it's not all roses and rainbows. Pregnancy can get messy, both for expecting women and the future fathers actively participating in this important event.

While outsiders may make assumptions about the experience of pregnancy, those who have had the chance to go through it know that it's not always what it seems. Fortunately, there are some very reliable sources that share honest yet funny facts about this blessed condition. Today, we've curated a new collection of chuckle-worthy posts shared online by mothers-to-be themselves, shedding light on some of the not-so-magical moments of pregnancy.

#1 I Think My Wife Forgot She Was 7 And A Half Months Pregnant When She Tried To Hide So She Could Jump Out And Scare Me

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#2 This Is How We Announced Our Pregnancy To Our Friends And Family

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#3 My Pregnant Wife Claims To Have Found The Perfect Onesie For Our Soon-To-Be-Born Son

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#4 My Pregnant Wife Is Practicing Swaddling On Our Dog

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#5 My Girlfriend Is 4 Months Pregnant, And I Got This Fortune Today

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#6 That Moment You Pour Chicken Broth Into Your Smoothie Blender Instead Of Almond Milk. Great Way To Start Off The Morning

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#7 First-Time Dad, Costco Had A Diaper Sale And Baby Not Due Yet. Did I Go Overboard?

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#8 Warning For All My Pregnant Mamas Out There: This Can Happen From Vomiting

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#9 You Currently Have 2 Brains In Your Body, And That Doesn't Help Either. The Struggle Is Real

After fifteen minutes of searching, I found out that I had put the car keys in precisely this place because that's such a nice logical place.

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#10 I Guess Pregnant Woman Can't Drive Broncos

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#11 I Think I Jinxed Myself Complaining About This Pregnancy Being Hard. Today I Broke My Right Foot And Left Ankle. Everything Just Got 1000% Harder

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#12 My Wife’s Pregnant Belly Makes It Look Like She’s Smuggling A Pumpkin

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#13 Subjects Pictured Are Not Pregnant, Give Me Back My Damn Pillow

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#14 Texting Bernard The Update After My Appointment

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#15 My Sister Is Pregnant With Triplets

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#16 I’m A Pre-K Teacher And Asked My Students For Name Suggestions. They Did Not Disappoint

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#17 The Dude I Work With Found Out That His Girlfriend Is Pregnant

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#18 Wife Is Pregnant With First Child, Due In 58 Days, Must Practice

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#19 Did I Really Just Go In Public With Two Different Shoes?

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#20 Made My Pregnant Girlfriend Pancakes

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#21 I Called Chewy To Tell Them The Packages They Are Sending Me Are Too Heavy Because I’m Pregnant And If They Could Be Split Up. I Got This In The Mail From Them

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#22 Everyone In My Life Over Thanksgiving: You're 29 Weeks Pregnant! Is The Nursery Done? My Nursery:

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#23 There's No Medal For Giving Birth, But My Partner Made Me This

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#24 Pregnancy Snack

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#25 My Pie Craving Is Next Level. Just Needed To Share With My Fellow Pregnant Peeps

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#26 My Pregnant Wife Is Trying To Choose A Color For Our First Nursery. I Present To You My Work Of Art - "Indecision (In P Minor)"

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#27 Today Is A Significant Day For My Wife's Pregnancy

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#28 A Friend Needed A Pregnancy Announcement, So I Obliged

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#29 Pregnancy Is Going Great, Why Do You Ask?

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#30 Pregnancy Massage Table. Amazing Invention, But Can't Stop Laughing

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#31 My Pregnant Step-Mom's Nutella, Onion, And Cucumber Sandwich

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#32 When I Thought I Looked Pregnant vs. Now

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#33 Pregnancy Brain

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#34 In Case Anyone Is Wondering, I Am "Walked With An Opened Tub Of Butter To The Garage And Put It On The Passenger Seat Instead Of In The Refrigerator" Weeks Pregnant

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#35 My Fiance, Normally A Lean Machine, Has Experienced A Lot Of Swelling During Pregnancy. Here's Her Foot

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#36 My Husband Made My 3rd Trimester Cake

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#37 My Wife's Pregnancy Photoshoot Dressed As Vecna At An Abandoned Pizza Hut In Vermont

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#38 Deconstructed Harvey’s Hot Dog Aux Cornichons And Sweet Tomato Compote. Pregnancy Craving

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#39 At 30-Weeks-Pregnant, I Told My Husband I’d Like To Have Some Pie. It’s A Win

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#40 In Need Of A Laugh Today

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#41 Grabbed My Stuff For Work This Morning And I Realized When I Got To Work That I Did Not In Fact Grab My Beauty Blender… I Grabbed A Boiled Egg

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#42 My Very Nauseous Pregnant Wife's Dinner. Finding Food She Can Digest (Or Even Think About) Has Been A Struggle

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#43 Happy Birthday Dear Preggo Cravings, Happy Birthday To You

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#44 The Struggle

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#45 This Pregnant Lady's Dinner Choice For The Past Two Weeks

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#46 What, You Ask, Is Pregnancy Brain? Oh, It’s That Thing That Makes You Not Realize That Tea Leaves Are Extremely Light, So 1 Pound Of Them Is, You Know, A Ton Of Tea

So you order an entire pound of tea leaves, and this arrives.

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#47 Preggo Brain. Wore My Slippers To Take The Boys To School But Forgot To Change Into Work Shoes When I Got Home Before Going To Work

And yes, I can still see my feet I just didn’t look down until I got to work.

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#48 Vegemite Roll Stuffed One Inside The Other. I’m Pregnant, So One Roll Wasn’t Going To Be Enough To Fill Me Up, And Eating Two Rolls Individually Seemed Like Way Too Much Effort

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#49 My Wife Is Pregnant. I Guess She Thinks I Won't Know What To Do When The Baby Is Born, So She Got This To Help Me Out

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#50 Wanted To Do Something A Bit More Grand To Break In My New Lodge 12", But My Pregnant Wife Wanted A Grilled Cheese At 2:30 AM

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#51 Pregnant Wife Gets Last Meal Before Giving Birth

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#52 Pregnant Lunch

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#53 My Pregnant Sister

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#54 Back When My Wife Was Pregnant With Our First, She Had A Craving For Ramen Noodles Prepared With Kraft Mac And Cheese Powder. Behold

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#55 Gosh I Hate The Combo Of Extreme Nausea, 4 AM Cravings And Not Finding The Damn Can Opener

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#56 Triple Butter. Peanut Butter, Butter, Nutella, And Jelly. Yup, I'm Very Pregnant

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#57 I’m Thinking That Maybe Preggo Brain Is A Real Thing

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#58 My Pregnant Wife's Microwaved Hot Dog On White Bread Because She Wanted It Immediately

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#59 Tried Making Coffee With Pregnancy Brain

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#60 Sometimes I Can’t Decide What To Snack On, So The Solution Is A Little Bit Of Everything. I Liked This Combo. It Hit All The Flavors, Had Diversity, And Was Fairly Well-Balanced

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#61 Pregnancy: Vanilla Ice Cream And Salted, Buttered Corn

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#62 Doritos And Mustard On White Bread: A Pregnancy Craving Bedtime Snack

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#63 My Pregnant Wife Is A Warrior. One Week Left, And She Is Still Out Running Errands With Me. This Is Our Last Costco Run Before The Baby Is Born. Thought This Was Funny

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#64 This Is How My Friend Announced His And His Wife's Pregnancy On The Internet

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#65 When You Order Subway So It's There When You Get Home From Work, But Forget That They Wrap Delivery Orders In Foil, So When You Stuck In The Microwave It Catches Fire

The microwave and sandwich are both fine. My pride is a little wounded though.

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#66 Cell Phone Holder

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#67 Pregnancy Brain In Full Swing - Meant To Grab A Spare Towel To Take Swimming To Sit On In The Car On The Way Home... Grabbed Lucy’s Wee Mat Instead

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#68 Can You Tell Tonight’s Snacks Were Picked Out By A Pregnant Lady?

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#69 39-Weeks-Pregnant And Don’t Care About My Diet Anymore

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#70 My Brand New Salt Grinder Broke And Poured Half Of Its Contents Into My Container Of Freshly-Made Mashed Potatoes For Dinner. I’m Pregnant. Tears Were Indeed Shed

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#71 This Is How My Day Is Going. Hope Everyone Else Has A Good Day

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#72 We Recently Announced Our Pregnancy. My Dad Wanted To Know How Big The Baby Was. I Told Him The Size Of A Sweet Potato. A Few Minutes Later, I Received This Picture

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#73 Our Friends Decided To Make Us A Cake Celebrating Our Pregnancy. It Was Delicious

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#74 My Friend Had Her Pregnant Belly Painted, I Think If You Press The Belly Button She'll Explode

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#75 Potato Salad And Sharp Cheddar On Corn Tortillas. Wife Is Pregnant

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#76 Pregnant Lady's Artisan Sandwich

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#77 Hors d'Oeuvres For My Pregnant Wife On Mother's Day

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#78 Pregnancy Brain: Putting The Tupperware Of Ranch In The Dishwasher To Be Cleaned Like This

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#79 Coffee Cake With My Special Ingredient Of Dashi Powder By Mistake Aka Fish Powder

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#80 I Have Now Burnt These Eggs To A Crisp Forgetting That I Started The Eggs And Decided To Take A Shower

What doesn’t show here is that before this mishap I already did this same thing once this morning. I have a brain inside of me but somehow I think I’ve lost mine! I have come to accept that pregnancy brain is real!

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#81 This Pregnancy Brain Is Out Of Control. I Started To Make My Decaf Pumpkin Spice Latte, Got Side-Tracked And Ended Up Letting My Pumpkin And Condensed Milk Burn

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#82 It’s Been 5 Hours Since I Got To Work And I Just Realized I’m Still Wearing My Slippers From This Morning

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#83 I Told Myself I’d Eat Healthy When I'm Pregnant

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#84 This Monstrosity My Pregnant Wife Created

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#85 Pregnant Wife Was Craving Cheddar Cheese With Dijon And Jalapenos

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#86 Smores Poptart Pancake For Pregnant Wife

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#87 Got My Wife Pregnant. Posted This

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#88 When Your Pregnant Babysitter Sends You Pics Of The Cup She Forgot She Put On The Roof Of The Car, Drove Off, Then Ran Over It

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#89 Preggo Brain Is A Real Thing! When I Pulled The Half-And-Half Cream Out For My Coffee This Morning I Did A Total Double Take... And Then Giggled

See, I was neither the adult who put away the ice cream last night nor the first to get half-and-half for coffee this morning.

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#90 Never Understood How People Did This, But I Am Now A Part Of The Club

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#91 Sometimes You Forget To Put The "Coffee Catcher" In The Grinder... And This Happens

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#92 My Pregnant Sister Sent Me A List For "Nachos". After Of All The Prepping, This Is What She Wanted

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#93 And This Would Be The Result Of Pregnancy Brain

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#94 Living With A Pregnant Woman

Living with a Pregnant woman involves coming home, taking a shower, putting on PJs, getting comfortable, getting back up to make her a snack, getting comfortable again, driving to Taco Bell for a Crunchwrap Supreme, and waiting for what's next.

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#95 My Husband's Genius Drawing On My Baby Bump

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#96 Childhood Favorite. Current Pregnancy Craving

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#97 Banana Blue Cheese Burger. Do Not Question The Demands Of The Pregnant

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#98 This Pregnancy Brain Is Really Starting To Be A Pain

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#99 It's Pizza Night! Guess Who Lost Count Of How Many Cups Of Flour She Added

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#100 Strange Pregnancy Craving Nr. 54 - Spicy Beef Patty On Burnt Waffle Drenched In Mayo And BBQ Sauce

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#101 Drew A Stick Figure Portrait Of My Little Family Today. Then I Realized Something Was Missing And Had To Revise

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#102 6-Month-Pregnant Wife's Diaries. Purdue Spicy Chicken Cutlets, Frozen Hashbrown Patties, Corn, Sour Cream And A Cheese Sauce

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#103 My Girlfriend Is Pregnant. We're Both Handling It Differently

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#104 Back When My Wife Was Pregnant With Our First, She Had A Craving For Ramen Noodles Prepared With Kraft Mac & Cheese Powder. Behold!!!