today was a little unnerving. Even though it seems to happen pretty often to pregnant & diabetic women on the forum it was a little spooky to be sent directly to labor and delivery, do not pass go, and get put on monitors. Evidently I have an 'irritable uterus' (no joke, that's what she called it) and so I have to coddle it by STAYING AT HOME and ( Read more... )

Jeff and I decided that the time was right to share our son's name with his paternal grandparents. So Jeff e-mailed his moms and pops and told them we'd call in the evening with the news ( Read more... )

Well, after all of the encouragement, I feel free to keep writing about baby experiences ( Read more... )

It's interesting having another living being inside of me. Our son is an early riser and I most frequently feel him moving around between the 6am bathroom trip and when I get out of bed for the day. It's amazing how intimately linked our vital systems are. I exhale his carbon dioxide and filter his blood. It's my job to find and ingest ( Read more... )

It turns out our guppy is a boy. We have a son. Cute.

I am. Or, at least, I think I am ( Read more... )

I hope you heard my voice echoing in a canyon in the wilderness and not an animaniac saying hello as in hello nurse ( Read more... )

I'm mad. If you could see me know you'd know because I have a definate frown on my face. I really don't like being mad, and I so rarely *look* mad, unless it's a joke. I think my dumb insurance invesigator doesn't think I medically need a continuous blood glucose monitor. Perhaps he's right. Maybe I just randomly experienced a drop in A1c from ( Read more... )

we heard the heartbeat today. it sounded emphatic and determined, like a good (gushy) piston.

I think I speak for both of us, but I'm in awe and in love.

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