In this highly medical community, with the two major hospitals competing for business (I’m told one even boasts steak dinners!), I’m frequently asked where I delivered my baby. The general response when I tell them we just stayed home has been positive, if a little astonished. And maybe they’re just polite and very good at […]
So you all know by now how wonderful I’m feeling — physically.
And for most of the time, I’m feeling great emotionally as well. Throughout the day I laugh, play with the girls, thoroughly enjoy the scrumptiousness that is a newborn baby, and wonder in amazement about how well everyone is adjusting and how smoothly things are going.
But then […]
Filed in: pregnancy • self-reflection | March 30, 2009
Our third daughter, born at home Monday, March 23 at 11:46 a.m. weighing 7 lbs 13 oz and measuring 20.5 inches.
{Making you click below for the story, because it’s long. And not everybody wants to read about the wonderfulness of an intact perineum.}
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 Internet purposes is […]
Not the kind Matt’s busy crunching, with the assistance of TurboTax and about ten billion Lowe’s receipts.
The fun kind, the kind where we get to discuss cervixes. Well, not cervixES. Just one cervix. Mine, specifically.
First Baby: My cervix was dilated exactly NOT A BIT by my 37 week appointment. 5 days later, I had a baby.
Second Baby: […]
Filed in: pregnancy | March 16, 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 small […]
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 end of […]
With both of my first babies, I had pretty intense contractions almost every night for several weeks before baby actually arrived. And so it has begun.
I’m only 33 weeks. Too early, I think, to be running around trying to get all ready for baby — because there’s really not all that much to do, and then I’d be […]
Filed in: child development • family • parenting • pregnancy • self-reflection | February 12, 2009
So I have this little composition book-turned-planner thing that I use as my brain. I’ve divided it into sections: A place for calendars (one page per month + a full year at a glance version), a big section for To Do lists (includes shopping lists), a place listing books I want to read, a long-term […]
Filed in: family • parenting • pregnancy • self-reflection | February 1, 2009
I am so busy, I am moving constantly throughout the day. I jump from one thing to the next without missing a beat, and usually I’m doing at least two or three things at a time. And it’s not necessarily out of need, it’s out of this incomprehensible urge I have to always be GETTING […]
Filed in: pregnancy • self-reflection | January 20, 2009
Hi, I'm Kate.
I have a propensity for rambling at length about parenting, attempting crafting projects far beyond my capabilities, staying up entirely too late, and craving sugary treats. This is my journal.
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