What are the pros and cons of being a mom?

I think the pros of being an expectant mom to me is the thought that something so precious as another life is able to be made inside of my body.  Every time I think about it , it completely blows my mind away how much of a miracle growing a baby inside of you is.I feel it has helped me gain perspective of my life and change some of the choices i have made in my life. Before I was prego, I smoked cigarrettes and didnt really see a point in quitting, wasnt sure if i would be able to if i did try to quit, but as soon as i found out that i was pregnant i quit, cold turkey, I had some fall backs where i would cheat, but i felt awful afterwards. I have been smoke free for over 3 months now.

The cons of being an expectant mom to me is i never thought of the toll it would take on my body emotionally and physically. I knew that I was gonna get a big belly and gain wieght but I have gained 30 pounds in the 6 months ive been prego and i know that may not seem like much but to  me that was kinda devastating. I am fine with it tho becuase i know that is going for a great cause.....to help me deliver a healthy baby boy.Also I work full time at a facility that helps take care of mentally challenged adults in thier group home. It is not physically demanding so much (except going up and down the stairs) but it is very mental.I get short with the clients sometimes w/o meaning to becuase I am tired (cuz i cant sleep through the nite ne more) or I have these horrible headaches and I feel horrible about it. Plus some of the clients are known to lash out at the employees and I am sometimes afraid of being hit.

The way that I see it is that there is pros and cons to everything, there is nothing that doesnt have a good and a bad side to it, you just have to take things the way that they are  and  make the best of it.

Don't worry hun I did worse things than smoking a ciggarrete.I used to do cocaine and smoke weed.I always knew I wanted a baby and knew that the cocaine was killing my chances so I stop and my fiance whom I thought wouldn't stop did.I was sooo proud of him.He does smoke weed still but he does it to keep calm which I don't mind.My father actually smoked weed till the day he dies.I was only 2 when he died.I quit both though and now I'm a proud mom of an almost 3 month old boy.