Over on Facebook, someone has a post about the Time Traveler's Wife. It's one of those loved it or hated it books. I'm in the hated it category. It just left a bad taste in my mouth for many reasons. But here's a big one: the time traveler in the story has a genetic condition that makes him move in and out of time involuntarily. To stay longer in ( Read more... )

I need to take a moment and sing the praises of my partner. If you're pregnant, you couldn't do much better than to have a babydaddy like mine. I'm so proud of what a good father I know he's going to be. Here are just a few of the things he does for me:

• Rubs my swollen feet
• Rubs cocoa butter lotion on me each night and does stretch mark look-out duty ( Read more... )

And so we begin the 8th month, and the low-self esteem kicks in. I mean, it's been there all along. If you have body image issues, pregnancy will bring them to the fore. And how! You'd think it would be an excuse to feel great. That you finally have something to blame weight gain on. You know pregnant women and you pooh pooh them saying they feel ( Read more... )

How did I get to 28 weeks all of a sudden? I'm starting my 7th month, so just 3 months to go. And I finally have a decent baby bump to show for it. Still in the phase where strangers can't comment on it for fear it's just a gut, but still definitely showing ( Read more... )

 When I was planning my wedding*, I was treated to a lot of fear-mongering about the process. A lot of warnings about how hard and exhausting getting married is, and how many compromises you'll make, and so on and so on. If you say how you'll simplify your wedding, you get a lot of "but you HAVE to have flowers/assigned seating/bridal party." A ( Read more... )

Here I am, 25 weeks. If I say I have 3.5 months to go everyone gets confused, but I'm due end of September. I have to get through the month of June, July, August, September and I already have full-blown PG symptoms. My first swollen feet of my life! (And apparently you canNOT point this out to me. I'm weirdly vain and self-conscious about it). I ( Read more... )

So here I am, past the halfway point almost at 6 months. Finally have a true baby bump though I'm not yet in that "hey that's a pregnant lady over there" stage ( Read more... )

Let's see if I can explain this. All along here I've been prepared for how much I'll love this baby. But suddenly it occurred to me that the baby will also love ME. I've seen how (most) babies respond to their mothers...so strange to think that I'll be on the receiving end of that. So much different than a baby's love for his auntie.

Heartburn, my constant companion. I got off fairly easy on morning sickness--it was constant, but manageable, not debilitating, and eventually went away altogether. But the heartburn and acid reflux...they're forever.

 I will not get into a debate about daycare...I will not get into a debate about daycare....