Bit by bit

Five and a half to seven and a half weeks to go, and we have one very big item crossed off the list.  We’ve decided on a doula.
Why a doula, you ask?  (Pretend you asked even if you didn’t.)  Because we’ve never done this before.  Because we maintain a healthy skepticism for a profession whose [...]

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The view must be spectacular

For some reason, this baby has shown a very, very strong preference for the right side of my uterus.  It’s a wonder I’m not walking in circles today.  And it’s a wonder that my right lung continues to function at all.

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Urban gardening!

This is the first year I’m starting tomatoes from seed.  It seemed like a fun thing to do while we were waiting for the end of winter.  Also, I wanted to try to grow San Marzano tomatoes–the preferred tomato of people who get serious about sauce tomatoes in Italian cuisine–and there’s no place I know [...]

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Teeny-tiny silver lining

The upside of having a car disabled by God knows what going on in the front end that’s going to cost us many pretty pennies?  The guy at the shop says, “Since I’ve got your car, why don’t you take my truck home for the night?”  So Spouse gets to throw my bike in the [...]

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I am some women

This is what I learned at the OB’s office today.
The rule of thumb for preterm contractions, depending on whose thumb you’re looking at, is that more than 4 or 6 in an hour warrants a trip to the emergency room.  The rule of thumb for me, and for “some women,” as in “some women just [...]

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32 weeks

I have decided that instead of counting down to 40 weeks, I will be counting down to 38, all the better to manage my impatience.  Sure, I’ll have to come up with something different after May 7, but let’s not do today what we can put off till tomorrow, huh?  So hurray! I have 6 [...]

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Here’s a random observation

Brought to you by Hulu and Netflix:
As television products go, The A-Team is superior to MacGyver.  Totally didn’t see that one coming.

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A couple good ways to make me very tired:

1. Take up residence in my uterus.  Grow a lot.  Kick, punch, and roll around a lot.  Find my bladder and head-butt it all night long so I don’t get more than 2 hours of sleep at a time.  Continue head-butting all day so I live in constant fear of peeing my pants, even if [...]

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Parents-to-be of the year!

A personal highlight for us on Saturday was when the Nurse-Educator-lady came around and asked everyone alternately what he or she was looking forward to most or least about the birth.  All of the answers were pretty standard.  They were looking forward most to meeting their baby; seeing what he/she looked like, finding out whether [...]

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Birthin’ babies: I might could do this thing*

I would’ve written up a report yesterday, but I was destroyed by the time we got home at 5.  I wasn’t terribly comfortable all day, and the room was really hot.  I have an unpredictable and bothersome habit of passing out when I get too hot, and I was about a minute away from falling [...]

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