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It’s been a long time. It’s almost at the point where so much has happened that I’ll forget most of it unless I record it somehow. So here you go: 1. Reader, I married him. I’ve always wondered what it would be like to write that sentence. So unsentimental as to be the most romantic [...]
35 weeks pregnant. It is time to order my birth kit, even though the thought fills me with all kinds of superstitious fears of committing an act of hubris. But yet? I am so relieved I can plan to labor in my own bedroom, in my own bathroom, my own little cave, and not have [...]
I was right: my ex-OB was lying to me.
I’ve been thinking about this post for some time now – but it’s the kind of thing that some who I know read this blog might get very upset about what I’m going to write. You see, I am now with a practice of homebirth midwives. But let me explain.
I can’t take a feminist seriously if she takes a condescending tone towards traditionally female activities like crafting in order to make some otherwise valid points about the marketing practices of e-business sites (in this case: Etsy) (responses at Jezebel, Magickal Realism, 11D, etc.). In that article, Sara Mosle implies that an educated stay-at-home-mom’s non-work [...]
I woke up this morning and the baby was so low that I suddenly have a waist again. (Hello ribs: nice to see you again – it’s been a few months!) From behind, I look completely normal. From other sides: I look like I’d strapped a big ball to my belly. Today is my due [...]
I got my economic stimulus check, which was – naturally – for an amount far less than the so-called $600 minimum. Because, you know, I was adjuncting and finishing my Ph.D. and so my income in 2007 was less than the amount they figured as the baseline for the stimulus. Because if you make less [...]
I am further dilated: steady progress of a centimeter a week for the past couple of weeks. That puts me at almost 3 cm – said my doctor at this afternoon’s visit. She says there’s a good chance it’s soon now, maybe even within a week. I feel like it’s soon now but I can’t [...]
On Saturday afternoon my belly moved lower. Saturday morning it was still way up then around 2pm it was not. The first thing I felt was that a particular movement Faustina often makes was suddenly occurring an inch below where I was used to it occurring. Then this morning I noticed something else: I can [...]
I knew I was pregnant just a few days after I conceived. There’s no magic to it: there were only two possible occasions when it could have happened. And I could tell that something had happened: my body felt different. Nothing bad or strange, just… different. There was a fullness to it, something it never [...]
WordPress, I am sorry I cheated on you. It won’t happen again (or at least, not until the next time…?). I don’t know whether the theme I’ve got now for this blog is permanent or not. I think not. I think I’ll test it out for the rest of this month, then choose another in [...]
Faustina is definitely on her way now. At this week’s doctor’s visit I found out my cervix is 1 centimeter dilated and 60% effaced – which doesn’t mean very much except, as I see it, that this child is really and actually coming out of me in a month or so. And here I was, [...]
People often ask me if I have any weird cravings. And I always answer, no, can’t say that I do… And then I realize I’m kind of lying because I do find myself with a far more profound appreciation of for certain foods than I ever did before getting pregnant. Like, for example, apples. The [...]
She moves much. So vigorously sometimes that my belly jumps, visibly through my clothes. I succumb to the body-part guessing game lots of times per day. It is very time-consuming. My back hurts if I’m on my feet for longer than 15 minutes or so. Not sure if there’s anything I can do about this [...]
One unexpected side effect of the flooding in our basement was that our dog nearly killed himself. We learned out that emergency care facilities try to charge you for the air your pet breathes while he’s there. But what’s worse, he was in really bad shape, and being as we are sentimental fools, we consider [...]
some pregnancy symptoms to date Which, in all the excitement of what shall go down in our family annals as The Great Flood of March 2008, I nearly forgot to record. I am 30 weeks along today. If the Girl Bean were born seven weeks from today, she’d be full term. Scary. But exciting. My [...]
Women over forty are having more and more babies in Britain, writes the Guardian (via Jezebel). Conception rates are rising among women and even men are increasingly becoming fathers at a later age. By contrast, a month ago the (also British) Independent wrote about how women should worry sooner than they do about their biological [...]
The other day I finally got up the nerve to tell off someone who really pissed me off about a year ago. I know, I shouldn’t have waited so long but… I hate telling people off, and I firmly believe that patience and kindness are more effective methods of social interaction than hostility. And usually [...]
In The Girlfriends’ Guide to Pregnancy (which is thus far my favorite pregnancy book: it soothes your already hormonally challenged emotional state rather than freak you out by informing you about everything you don’t know and could possibly go wrong) Vicki Iovine writes that one’s butt becomes rounder as the months progress. She doesn’t know [...]
I bought my first pair of pregnancy jeans yesterday. I don’t really look pregnant yet, it’s just that I’m getting sick of constantly pulling up my unbuttoned regular pants, which invariably travel downwards. I tried the Bella Band (it’s a roll of stretchy fabric that you wear over your waist and the top of your [...]
I have given up alcohol. And sushi. And soft cheeses. And Beefsteak Tartar, one of my favorite dishes in the world. I only drink half a cup of coffee in the morning instead of my usual two. I’ve been more tired than ever before in my life, and I can’t seem to button any of [...]
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