After the past few months and all of our experiences with doctors for my relatively uneventful pregnancy, I no longer find it so hard to understand why people choose midwives over doctors and home births over hospitals. I’ve always supported people’s ability to seek the sort of care they feel is right for them andRead More
Forget boldly going where no one has gone before
If I have any advice to give someone thinking about getting pregnant, it’s this: wait until one of your friends gets pregnant first, then get pregnant a couple of months later. Not even kidding, this is the smartest accidental move I think I have ever made. Some good friends of ours just had their firstRead More
Virtual Baby Shower
Virtual baby shower gifts from one of the ladies on my due date buddy forum! 🙂 Too cute!
31 week update
I missed a few weeks while we were in Texas for the holidays. Picking back up this week…31 weeks in! I’m beginning to see light at the end of the tunnel! How Far Along: 31 weeks (pic: 31w0d) Size of Baby as Relative to Common Household Fruit or Vegetable: Squash (this seems incredibly vague, but…)Read More
The casual "how are you?" isn’t so casual anymore
Being pregnant comes with all sorts of little surprises that you aren’t expecting. Things like excruciating rib pain because your intercostal muscles are having to do the job your diaphragm usually does or farting silently, but persistently for long stretches of time like some sort of leaky balloon. (No, really. I’ve had it go onRead More
Home again, home again
After 10 wonderful days with family in Texas, we’re finally back in Portland. And to think it only took a 3 hour drive on Monday followed by 12 hours of traveling today. 😉 Actually, we really did luck out. Our longest leg was DFW to SJC, and we managed to be seated in the onlyRead More