I’m wrapping up a family vacation that was a little different this time.

I’ve been on vacations with my family at the beach before. But this time three of the five women were pregnant.

My two sons’ wives are due next fall, as is my daughter. Our number of grandchildren will double, from three to six, between August and December. There is a sort of symmetry involved. Our oldest is having her third. The next oldest is having his second, and the youngest is going to be a daddy for the first time.

There were four generations gathered together, because my mother joined us, too.

So what made this vacation so different?

Unless you’ve experienced it in person, you have no idea how many details there are involved in pre-, during and post-birth that need to be discussed.

And some of the details are, well, fairly personal.

But when three pregnant women are related, and gathered with their mother/mother-in-law and grandmother/grandmother-in-law, there are few inhibitions holding back the details, which get discussed over and over again.

I’m not complaining. I learned a thing or two. 

And you know that saying about how pregnant women have a sort of glow about them.  It’s true.

All three of them were beautiful, radiating with the joy of new life. 

And for all the complaining about nauseau and cramps and restrictive diets, it was wonderful being part of their lives for a few days.

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