December 15, 2004 - Procreation, as opposed to amateurcreation?

Admittedly, I have participated in con-creation, but that's a whole long story, and many years ago. Let's just say that I don't have a 10 year old child, and leave it at that, shall we?
Anyway, all that aside (not that it hasn't drifted across my mind frequently in the last decade, and nearly daily since we've decided to get pregnant), I am very very nervous. I have read in various places that each month a couple only has a 25% chance of conception. (Did I already use up all my statistical luck when I was a foolish girl?). I have read conflicting things about when the best days of my cycle will be. I have read different advice on his sperm production.....oy! Thousands of women get pregnant every day on accident, so I need to stop stressing and just relax. Really. Donnelly, stop stressing.
I think, all in all, I may be hoping that I am pregnant by the time Umbria goes into labor, so that it will be too late to chicken out when I watch her deliver! I have been reading a lot about child birthing lately, thanks to her. I have also been asking everyone I know who's had a baby to tell me the whole story. Pretty much, it boils down to the same thing: it's different for every woman, but women have been doing it for millenia, so, just trust your body to know what to do.
I can barely trust my body to navigate a hallway upright without hitting furniture!!! I have serious doubts about my body's ability to handle anything as complicated as producing a whole person out of my woo!