Even then, there are phases of pregnancy you couldn’t possibly have anticipated, like when the sidewalk can resemble a comfortable place to nap and how at first you can’t tell whether the baby’s kicking or you just have indigestion. Nor can anyone really describe to you how your body and heart suddenly will feel full of purpose and promise. How the fact that you’re cooking a baby who will undoubtedly have the funny ears that run in your husband’s family and the impossibly long eyelashes that run in yours — that you’re creating an ancestral DNA of your own! — trumps every annoying, weird symptom that comes along. People forget to mention how this mysterious little person will keep you company every hour of every day, banishing every notion of loneliness for the unforeseeable future, how even though you’ve yet to meet, you’ll love your growing baby with a ferocity that makes Superwoman look wimpy, and how glad you’ll be that your body knows how to make eyelashes without consulting you.