So I feel the need to put two disclaimers on this post: first, it contains medical unpleasantness that might be considered a bit gory, and second (for those contemplating their first delivery), it is absolutely not a typical chain of events.

The short version is that I had, not the worst of both worlds (since nothing irreparable happened), but the ( Read more... )

I am pretty sure I am not in labor, but I would have told you different an hour ago, so who knows? But I didn't feel confident enough to update the "not in labor" post's datestamp.

(Had a pattern, seems to have wavered then vanished in the hour since I got up. At any rate, packed a hospital bag yesterday and ate a good breakfast just now, so while ( Read more... )

I will update the date on this post when I first sit down at the computer every morning. But if it's been more than a day, you probably want to check Chad's Twitter account before jumping to conclusions.

(This is marked "don't show on reading pages" so as not to keep showing up; anyone who really cares will find it by clicking on the "pregnancy" ( Read more... )

1. Perils of professional monofocus: walk into a jeweler's today, tell first person I see that I need rings cut off, get sent across room to second person who looks immediately at my hand and says, never looking up, "Gosh, I wonder how those got so small?" "Well," says I, "I imagine being 37 weeks pregnant has something to do with it . . . "

(The ( Read more... )

( but I appear to be not in labor )

Thanks again to those who helped me brainstorm about the topic previously. The resulting post, A Plea to SFF Writers for Variety in Pregnancy and Childbirth Depictions, is now up at Tor.com. Please direct substantive comment there.

(Also, I managed to write an entire post about pregnancy and childbirth without referring to the pregnant person as ( Read more... )

Quick pregnancy update, here with four weeks theoretically left.

The mug shots:

( the traditional pictures )

That's not the exit.

That's not the exit either.

That . . . might actually be the exit, because I'm not sure what else in that vicinity would result in sensations like that, but don't even think it, you've got eight weeks to cook before you're allowed to care. (Also: ow.)

With love and great sincerity,

Me

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At the start of week 28, the beginning of the third trimester, I thought I'd do a quick update.

First, the mug shots:

( two pictures )

Hey DW,

I've been planning a blog post on the topic "a plea for variety in depictions of pregnancy and childbirth, or, your clichés are boring." It seems to me the big ones in stock portrayals of pregnancy and childbirth are morning sickness; mood swings; food cravings; delivery flat in back in bed; and fathers freaking out. (Let us put aside the ( Read more... )