Dear Baby in My Belly – I love that I’m feeling you move now and that you are growing like crazy, but I’m a wee bit tired of being tired. And then waking up in the middle of night either nauseous or just AWAKE for no reason. My second trimester is supposed to be theRead the whole post >>
Archives for March 2010
The "Right Time."
This isn’t the right time to have a baby. It just isn’t. Mike will be starting a PhD program this fall and I currently earn 75% of our income. My job provides our health insurance. I always thought work would be optional for me when when we had kids one day; that it would beRead the whole post >>
Lesson Learned.
Lesson Learned: the right light in IMPORTANT. As is cropping the photo if the other half of your hair is frizzy. :) Do NOT Google “15-week-old fetus.” I think the images of miscarried babies is burned in my brain. Yikes. Going without dairy is way, way more difficult than going without meat. I gave itRead the whole post >>
The Belly Pop, Telling our Parents, and other such Milestones.
Around the tenth or eleventh week of pregnancy, I started to notice the tiniest of bulges when I tightened my abs. Now, I’ve never been Jillian Michaels or anything, but when I tightened my abs – my stomach was always flat. It was sort of exciting – finally! Proof for all the nausea and ickinessRead the whole post >>
2am Bowls of Reese’s Puffs, Monopoly Junior, and Perspective.
Mike left this Saturday for an eight-day trip to Chicago for work. He was in Chicago the week before that for four days for an interview. And a few weeks, I’ll be leaving for three days. At the risk of sounding whiny, I miss him. I am quite independent, so I appreciate the alone timeRead the whole post >>