My Birth Story? You Want to Hear More?

Pull up a chair and let me tell you a yarn. You, or anyone else who will listen…
Here’s a funny detail I forgot:
Right after my water broke and I called the midwife and figured out how to not leak all over the place, I re-read the “When To Call” sheet from the midwives. [...]

A B00bie Story

Doctors. Harumph
On one hand, they do great things like slide several-celled embryos into my invisible friends.
On the other hand, they work within a really bizarre system that doesn’t seem to have much understanding of human needs, it is so skewed toward avoiding litigation, it forgets about the fact that the potential litigants are humans. [...]

Cakie Talk, Big Brother Style

We did a pretty good job preparing Cakie for becoming a big brother.  At least emotionally.  He loves the little dickens.  He loves him hard.  I often have to intercept before Trucker becomes suffucated by Cakie love.  Here are some things he has said:
When we arrived home from the hospital with Trucker, I foolishly expected [...]

Trucker

Every time I try to post, something stops me. By something, I mean this guy…

That’s him fresh out of the oven. He was a little puffy from the speedy journey. Here he is after a few days of cutening up time:

Last but not least… what might rival in cool baby wear the [...]

Sorry for the Delay

I have a confession to make.
I haven’t uploaded the pictures to post for you yet because I needed to figure out how to get them on the computer without my birth pictures coming on my screen saver.  The birth photos are for private and select audiences, only.   We don’t need my hooo haa popping up [...]

Which Post?

Obviously, I don’t have as much time to write as I did five days ago. So here’s what I’m thinking:
I have several posts I want to write. I have a few people who have dibs on requests for posts as well because they guessed the correct birthday for Trucker, whom I will from [...]

Birth Story (Revised)

Let me preface this by saying that it is my true wish that any woman who has to TTC for more than a year gets to one day write a story like this one.
Around nine in the morning on my due date, I decide to turkey meatloaf to freeze for post-baby time. I get the [...]

Splash

My water broke at 9:35!
No hot tub, I guess. But I don’t really care.  I give myself permission to get excited.
Wish me luck, my people.

Nothin’

Ok, people.
I’m actually going to cook the turkey meatloaf.  My Brooklyn tank doesn’t fit over my Trucker bump.  I don’t actually own a Donna Read skirt.  So I’m settling for a big purple maternity shirt and black shorts.  I do have the bare feet, however.  I had a nice strong night of sleep last night.  [...]

Things I Did That Aren’t On the List:

Ate 1/4 of a pint of Cookies and Cream ice cream
Cooked pizza with my son, opened “Cake’s Restaurant”
Taught Cakie how to make my iced raspberry leaf tea/Recharge cocktail using the big tea ball I bought at the co-op today — a skill every man needs!
Did all the Cakie fun stuff while my honey went out [...]