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It took me a week of reminding myself how great it was to be a part of my son’s birth before I could admit that the VBAC was a good decision. From the moment he was born I was done with the pain; the pain, however, was not done with me. Somehow I had it […]
Read More Unrealistic ExpectationsA short while before Little Red was born, I painted my toenails a bright red. It took a lot of people by surprise, as it was November, but it seemed simple enough to me: I wanted the baby to have something to aim for. Clearly, that didn’t work out, but undeterred I decided to do […]
Read More How Heather got her VBACThe assortment of cars that we see varies only slightly, week to week. It begins with the street sweeper and the cars parked on the opposite side of the street. On the bigger street we will always see a police car, at least one garbage truck, at least two city busses, and numerous people on […]
Read More RoutineHow to Give a Pregnant Lady a Complex On Saturday morning the Young Girl at my table asked me if my baby had come out yet. I leaned back, patted my belly and said, “you tell me.” She concluded I had not yet had my baby. Teenage Girl said, “you’re pregnant?” “Did you think this […]
Read More Manic MondayLast night the baby dropped. He’s been riding really high since the moment of conception so a week and a half ago when my nurse practitioner told me to expect the baby to drop in the next two weeks I scoffed inwardly. (And I wondered, how would I even know? Little Red had been so […]
Read More Ready or Not?Little Red went in search of his sippy cup of milk this afternoon, saying “baby’s milk.” Once he found it, he held it to my belly button and proceded to feed the baby. This continued for several moments until I finally asked him to stop because there was milk all over my shirt. “The baby […]
Read More Bragging Once MoreAs Monday was MLK day and my husband actually works for an employer that lets the employees take holidays off, he got to stay home and play with Little Red while I went to work. I had left them with a list of groceries that we needed and included at the bottom “finger foods for […]
Read More Random FridayHello. I am Proud Mum and it’s been three and a half hours since my last episode. Although my episodes have been very violent and very frequent I’ve managed to keep myself out of the hospital this time and I think I have things under control. I even have one third of a Pedialyte Pop […]
Read More Pregnant Bulemics AnonymousWake Up, Mummy! After I told my doctor that I needed to get over all my excuses and get back into yoga to help control the stress that has dominated this pregnancy, and explained again this morning to Kristen that I needed to just get over it and do it, I decided to start today. […]
Read More Morning AsanaIt all started this summer when it became clear that I would not see my family again this Christmas. (I haven’t spent Christmas with my family since I met my husband.) I was depressed, because I thought this would be the year in which we would have the means to do so, but still would […]
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