As some of you may know from Facebook, I was ordered by my doctor on the 22nd to "repos allongé" for the rest of my pregnancy, which essentially means lie down more often, no more traveling and no stress. Technically, I shouldn't have gone to work on the 28th, but I really didn't want to deal with the paperwork hassle of taking my leave early. But ( Read more... )

It's 2:30 in the morning. I am tired but I can't sleep. This is not one of the cool things about pregnancy.

Well, the wonderful period of the second trimester is definitely over, I've got seven (!) weeks left to go and the highly uncomfortable stage has definitely set in. The last two days I've been incredibly tired, and when awake my back is bothering me and I'm constantly hungry which also means I'm constantly experiencing acid reflux because my ( Read more... )

So I had my first major panic of my pregnancy. Tout va bien now, but the past 48 hours have been on the extreme end of not fun ( Read more... )

There's such a huge backlog of things I've been meaning to post about my experience so far in being pregnant I can't remember half the things I've wanted to jot down. So here are some random experiences ( Read more... )

I've been meaning to write about meeting Martin's parents but haven't quite had the time. Well, I don't really have the time now, but I'm tired and in the mood to write an update ( Read more... )

So we found out Monday the genitals of who we like to call little iBun (we are both Mac users). As the obgyn was positioning the wand to get a good look between the legs of my future offspring, I couldn't help but think this was the baby's first porn shot :D Anyway, I thought I'd be very clever and post on facebook this picture of me with these ( Read more... )

It seems like only yesterday I was in my late 20s, single, sitting in the sun and grass in front of the Soldiers and Sailors monument while eating aloo palak from the lunch carts and talking with my lab mates about the possibility of getting my tubes tied as we played our favorite lunchtime game "Which Pedestrians Would You Do".  Yes, we were very ( Read more... )

Anyone have a purely online bank to recommend? I'm tired of dealing with the unhelpful bank people in France who won't give me my money.. While my trip to Paris to visit Martin for Toussaint (pics later) was great, there was this really, really annoying issue with my bank. It seems that every time I travel, they block my card, and it's this ( Read more... )

Hi lj, it's time for another update!!!

So at the New Year I went out and bought a plant. A week later, I was so excited about greenery in my flat that I went out and bought 3 more plants. They are all dead save the New Year plant, which has lost all the pretty red flowers but is still green. I bought that basil plant in Paris and it died. I killed ( Read more... )