Monthly Archives: July 2008
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 … Continue reading
Filed under Labor & Birth
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Filed under my second son, my son, Trucker
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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
Filed under Post partum
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 … Continue reading
Filed under blogitty blog blog, family
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 … Continue reading
Filed under Labor & Birth
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.
Filed under Labor & Birth
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Filed under Labor & Birth, my son, Third Trimester!?!, Waiting and waiting and...
