You really shouldn't do that...

I thought about making the title of this post Google Is Evil. Because this is linked into Google, I thought that might not be a good idea. Suddenly, my rantings might vanish off the face of cyberspace. Only a force as strong as Google could make that possible.
The title was a quote from my friend Katey. That is very close to, if not the exact phrase she spit out when she asked what I was doing the other evening. I told her I was looking at a website about hermaphrodites.
I know it has not been long since one of my fave channels, either TLC or Discovery or Nat Geo(the new, hip name for the magazine's sister channel) ran a special about this genetic condition. Of course, you can't turn around without seeing an autism commercial telling you that nearly every child is autistic. They all blend together for me, but I told her that I remembered hearing on one of these features about how this is a very common condition. Now, not as common as being left handed, of course, but WA-HAY more common than you might think. In between staring at scan pictures with mounting questions, this thought popped into my head.
Perhaps this is because I learned that here in 4-5 weeks, we should find out what we're having.
You will find, if you visit online resources and forums, much discussion about how "scans are often incorrect". You hear about people with blue or pink accessories taking home a baby that doesn't match.
I have to say, I am glad I found out about my pregnancy quite early on, and while I had no crack addiction to break, it enabled me to make "behavior modifications" fairly quickly that help to ease my mind.
You see, from the minute I called to schedule an OB appointment(day after I found out)and they told me to immediately call my GP and get prenatal vitamins, I have tried to, at the least, follow their recommendations.
First thing was first. What is up with folic acid? Why should mothers take this before they try to get pregnant? Of course, I turned to Google. Ummmmm...I got my answer. It led to more and more Googling on every defect I had never heard of before. Holy sh*t, I hope I was eating some stuff with folic acid before I got my vitamins!
Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of mothers out there who did and do everything right, and still have babies with health issues. Sometimes these things just happen. There is not always a way to understand or explain, but let me just say, I now know of at least 100 or more conditions I can worry about that I didn't even know existed.
Probably the same reason she told me "You really shouldn't do that...".
I am human. I have always been inquisitive. It is my nature. I just can't let it go. I have to know more. It may be a curse or it may just be natural to want to know about every little thing there is to worry about.
There are no shortage of these things on Google.