Connor weighs the same as Moo did at birth (5 lbs 14 oz), except that he's two weeks younger, so that's pretty impressive. 18" long, head circumference 13.5". Everything looks normal ( Read more... )

(If you haven't seen it yet: the announcement, with pictures.

( The birth story. )

This is what birth looks like.

( NSFW. Me in the bathtub with a new baby. (Yes, there's a baby face hidden in the towel, look near the boob. The shell-shaped pink thing is the bath pillow onto which I gave birth; the red thing between me and the pillow is the placenta. )

This morning I was feeling pretty frightened of labor, trying to make myself accept that it would probably end with me in a hospital getting sliced open. This afternoon after a couple more hours of sleep I woke up with Korn's "Let's Get This Party Started" stuck in my head, and I'd returned to my normal fatalistic feeling about it (whatever's going ( Read more... )

So fucking sore and everything hurts. I could barely sleep last night because I kept getting woken up by contractions and I was all spacy-headed. Although that shit went on for like two weeks before Moo's birth, so I don't expect it means labor is imminent.

Can it be going back to sleep time plz? *so tired*

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The nine pounds that I've put on over the past couple weeks have gone straight to my belly, I swear.

( Side shot, taken just now. )

There's days when I take pictures of myself and I think, "Yeah, that looks okay." And then there's days when just no picture I take works for me. Today is one of those days. But c'est la vie ( Read more... )

Dear hypomania ( Read more... )

Genetic testing results for Marfan's came back today ( Read more... )