The story

Jeez, where to start?  It’s Sunday, I think, and I got here from Monday somehow, but I can’t quite remember it.  I will do my best.
So Spouse had requested way back when that I make the most of his Memorial Day three-day weekend by going into labor either early last week or Monday evening.  And [...]

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Look at what we did!

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Nuala Jane

19 hours of labor, including 2 hours of pushing + disturbing sights and sensations all around – any drugs or interventions+ a 3 hour trip and a 1 hour trip in the whirlpool + sore muscles head to toe +2 doctors +2 kick ass nurses+ a kind nurse intern+ 2 baby-faced residents  + 1 amazing [...]

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Pedicure and perspective

I call this one “Piggies Among the Strawberries.”  My toesies are painted for the first time since August 2008.
I was doing a little casual reading of back issues of Obstetrics & Gynecology today…or rather, googling a figure I’d read somewhere at some point and coming upon the most oft-cited article related to that figure.  And [...]

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Hear that, kiddo?

The spa people didn’t have an opening for a pedicure today, but they did have one for tomorrow morning at 10:15, so I took it.  I explained that I was pregnant and my due date was yesterday, so they promised to waive the cancellation fee if something happened between now and then.  I’m now regretting [...]

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40 weeks

Today’s the big day! And by “big day,” I mean “Just like any other day, except with a few more ounces added to my heft.”  I’m not sure there’s any appreciable difference between this week and last, but here’s a full-40-weeks picture anyway.

I got a little curious earlier this week and finally took some measurements. [...]

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Holy crap, I love my camera

I took my tomato seedlings outside to soak up the sun this morning and heard some bumblebees buzzing over by the rhododendron, which has bloomed fairly well this year.  It occurred to me that since that lovely early-morning sunlight was still hanging around, and the flowers (and the bees that were doing their business in [...]

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Conditions are perfect

Scratchy throat.
Runny nose.
Crampiness from being checked yesterday, sore hips, impatient bladder, my own snoring kept me up all night.
Send someone by to brain me with a baseball bat and to cut the fuel line on Spouse’s car while he’s at work out of town, and I think we’ll have a perfect storm for labor to [...]

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No news is good news

3cm dilated, still 70% effaced.  And really, what’s the difference between 2.5 and 3?  I’m still primed for labor, just waiting on contractions.  My morning walk was a good deal more uncomfortable today for some stabbiness and increased pressure in my bits and pieces, so I feel pretty sure that things are moving along on [...]

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Symbolism

Many moons ago, I had a few ancient and medieval art history classes, during one of which I had the great pleasure to witness the professor descend into a conniption about one contemporary piece (I can’t remember exactly what it was now) that was clearly trying to use symbolism to make its point, but turned [...]

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