Our third daughter, born at home Monday, March 23 at 11:46 a.m. weighing 7 lbs 13 oz and measuring 20.5 inches.
It begins
My water broke to commence labor for both of my previous births and this one was no different. Around 4:20 in the morning–when Matt had just started to drift off to sleep, thanks to [...]
Filed in: birth stories • family • health • pregnancy | March 26, 2009
This morning I looked like this:
Tonight, that bump? Is totally removable.
Don’t worry, full details of all the in-between stuff are coming. But I thought I should let you know, for those of you who don’t Tweet, that she arrived today just before noon and is doing wonderfully.
The girl we will be calling Carrie for [...]
Sariah just said, “Let’s pretend this toast is icky but we have to eat it.” Jane readily agreed and it is turning into a pretty elaborate game.
I know kids use play to work through things that happen to them as a way of trying to understand (or recover from, depending.) I see mine do this [...]
I am an extremely skeptical person. I think I’m getting worse with age too. I’m especially skeptical of anything that is claimed to be some kind of miracle cure. I don’t care if it is “natural” or not either. I just find myself rolling my eyes an awful lot rather than jump right on the [...]
Why is it that when I’m talking with someone in real life, we can see a particular issue completely differently, and yet still communicate respect for each other, be nonjudgmental and totally understanding of the other person’s perspective, and not feel uncomfortable in the least . . . yet any time I try to write [...]
Filed in: health • self-reflection | March 13, 2009
37 weeks. I’m not in any hurry. There is still plenty to do. Most desperately, Matt needs to get every one of the empty duplexes repaired and ready to rent out. That’s going to take till the end of this month, so this baby better get comfortable.
I know I don’t look big. I’m measuring [...]
You’re just dying for another pregnancy update, I know. You’ve missed hearing all about the heartburn and varicose veins and the baby who never. stops. moving–I swear she must have forty-seven legs.
I’m so going to acquiesce your wishes.
I’ve succumbed yet again to the glorious Prilosec OTC for the first. I’ve taken it near the [...]
We have been extremely lucky that our girls are so healthy. They rarely get sick at all, and when they do, it is always pretty mild and over within a day or two.
I’ve just recently realized all of this, and even remarked to a few friends my amazement about how infrequently anyone in ever [...]
That’s what it feels like. Running up and down my chest.
I get heartburn every day of my life. Have since about 5th grade. It’s a nightmare, but I live with it. Except when I’m pregnant.
Pregnancy has me wanting to rip my own chest open, to somehow try to grab and suffocate the pain. It starts [...]