41 weeks now.

Just an update to say that nothing interesting is happening. Those 5-7 minute toe-curling contractions continued for 24 straight hours and then stopped. Yep. At about 2:30pm today they stopped as abruptly as they came on at exactly 2:30pm the day before. I had another afternoon nap, greasy food that gave me heartburn, and now I'm ( Read more... )

First, old stuff I wrote two days ago ( Read more... )

I have been pregnant three other times; I have carried a nearly 10lb baby three weeks overdue, I have had a posterior breech labour with a spine sitting hard on my tailbone, I have endured 44 hours of hard labour and over 70 hours awake without food while I did it... and none of that has been as physically or emotionally challenging as the last few ( Read more... )

One of my three nursing bras that I ordered two months ago from biggerbras.com came in today. They're all on backorder, so I expected them to take a while. The holiday season decimated their supply, and for some reason everything over an F cup was sold out even down to the manufacturer ( Read more... )

I am very seriously considering going back to school to become an IBCLC. This probably seems out of the blue as I haven't mentioned it here before (or, if I have, not very often), but it's actually been something I've spent a lot of time thinking about since Tempest's birth ( Read more... )

Last night I couldn't sleep, which is a huge surprise since I never suffer with insomnia (har de har har), and instead of tossing and turning until 4am I decided to use my creative energy to try and take another one of those silhouette pictures I did a few weeks ago. It didn't turn out as nicely as the first one, but it was enough to inspire me to ( Read more... )

So, Marika has this ex boyfriend who started getting kind of insane after they broke up. He was weirdly controlling and verbally abusive while they were together, and used to constantly say he was going to break up with her and leave her in the dirt, blah blah... finally she said that was enough and called his bluff and left. After that he started ( Read more... )

(I'll get back on track in a minute, but I wanted to have this side rant about birth in our culture and how fucked up it is. While not really about my SIL, it's certainly inspired by it ( Read more... )

"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me again and YOU'RE A CUNT. YOU'RE A FUCKING CUNT AND I FUCKING HATE YOU, YOU FUCKING CUNT ( Read more... )

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