Things you must know now you're pregnant!

I am the first out of most of my friends to get pregnant and I'm not really close to any family who has children. I didn't have any examples of what pregnancy, childbirth, and having a newborn was going to be like. Now I have several friends who just got pregnant or are going to start trying. They ask me tons of questions about everything, one of which is my close friend Amanda. When having one of our chats recently I told Amanda I'm going to tell you everything I learned the hard way to which she replied you better write it down or you're going to forget! So this is it! I am going to write it all down to share with my friends so hopefully they don't have to learn the hard way the things you must know now you're pregnant!