Pregnancy is a strange experience. Why, only this morning, I saw a drop of clear fluid on my nipple. I thought maybe I had gotten a little water on myself somehow, but further experimentation revealed that this liquid had come from my very own breast. I couldn’t have been more surprised if one of the […]
When I woke up yesterday morning, the clenchy feelings I had been having the night before had disappeared, but the pressure had not. Now, I have had various sorts of pressure off and on for weeks now. This pressure, however, was localized to my Lady Parts, was rather more intense, and made me waddle. It […]
Just returned from long, tedious evening in Labor & Delivery. Everything is fine, except that I am famished and must have lamb korma immediately, so you will have to wait until tomorrow for the whole long, tedious story.
I hope you are all well, and well-fed.
I talked to my mother this morning and she is doing as well as can be expected. She had her surgeries—which ended up involving bone harvested from her pelvis, nine pins, and five plates—and will be in the hospital for two weeks before being transferred to a rehab facility where she will spend another few […]
Your legs have grown quite a bit this week. They are now longer than your arms, meaning you can finally produce a really satisfactory high kick. Legs are marvelous, and I think you will enjoy them even more, now that they are long enough to keep your knuckles from dragging apeishly along the ground. Your […]
So. Tired. No sleep. Car. Driving. Mrgghhhph.
But I am home! Home!
Back to work in the morning, alas, but my dear friend (whom I have missed terribly) will finally be back from maternity leave, so I am almost looking forward to it. And as soon as I finish writing this, and then unpacking, I am going […]
Today is the last day of secret blogging, as we leave tomorrow morning on the drive back to our cats, my own laptop, and our shamefully filthy apartment. The strangest thing that has happened this trip is that I have realized, quite by accident, that I have some very firm ideas about how I want […]
I bring you another brief post from Scott’s parents’ computer, after which I will empty the cache, clear the browser history, and slink soundlessly back into the living room. It is like I am a secret agent, only I am wearing sweatpants, not carrying a gun, and after my mission I will be rewarded with […]
Just got another email from my mother:
Surgery tomorrow. Knee and ankle. They will put a plate in the knee and take some bone out of my pelvis to fill in the knee. Plate is coming from the states. 2 weeks in the hospital following surgery. No plane travel over the holidays. […]
It is never good news when your phone rings at 4 am. It rang for a while, and then it rang again, and finally, when it began ringing for the third time, I answered and there was my mom’s boss, telling me she had been hit by a car. My mother, as you will […]
Tonight will be a domestic sort of night. We are leaving tomorrow evening to spend Thanksgiving with the In-Laws, and though I am dreading the long drive during peak nausea hours (though I am now down to one Zofran a day! My colon is wriggling with glee!), I am looking forward to getting away for […]
1. There seems to be an overwhelming curiosity amongst my readers about my mother’s reaction to Cuddles’ reappearance. When I returned Cuddles to his cage, I did not say anything, hoping his presence would go unnoticed, which it did, for a while. And then I recall a tense moment, my mother displaying some amount of […]
Last night I had a dream. In it, I had just finished my IVF cycle, and somehow I knew it had not worked. How I knew, I don’t know, but I knew, in that horrible, sinking, pit-of-your-stomach way. I was trying to decide whether to take a pregnancy test, and when I woke up, I […]
Let’s talk about sex, babies. Yours. You are fourteen weeks old today, and sometime soon your father and I will discover whether you are boys or girls, or one of each. This is quite exciting for me, as it will help you to seem more like little people, and less like malevolent parasites systematically leeching […]
Sorry! Sorry, sorry, sorry! I did not mean to cause such a kerfluffle by password protecting that last post. I posted it last night, unprotected, and then this morning became uncomfortably paranoid but didn’t want to delete it, exactly, and I noticed the handy little “password protect post” field and there you are. Curiously (or […]
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
I have been tagged by the delightful (delightfully FERAL) Feral Mom, who knows firsthand the desperation and flop sweat of NaBloPoMo. And so, may I humbly present…
THE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL 8 THINGS ABOUT ME:
1. On the first day of school, in sixth grade, I wore a Hypercolor t-shirt. It was purple, and turned orange […]
Well, that sucked.
First, I drove in rush hour traffic for 45 minutes only to discover my OB had been called away for an emergency C-section, and I would be seeing a nurse instead. Now, I have nothing against nurses, in fact I adore them, and have often times found them more helpful than my doctors. […]
The genetic counselor finally called today. Still no word on the Cystic Fibrosis test, but our first trimester screening results are back, and they are excellent. Each baby has less than a 1/10,000 risk of Downs, Trisomy 13, and Trisomy 18—the best odds they give. I am delighted. This is better than I had dared […]
I think that I shall never see a LESS appealing movie preview than that for August Rush. Impossibly schlocky story? Check. Annoying, plucky child character? Check. Robin Williams (in a cowboy hat, no less) Check! I shudder every time I see the preview. If I avoid seeing one movie this season, I will avoid seeing […]
The Colace worked last night, but I must warn any of you in a similar position that waiting six days before taking said Colace may not be the best idea. I am not sure how to put this without offending the delicate sensibilities of my readers, but the experience left me shaken, not a little […]
My headaches seem to start in the late afternoon or early evening, so clever little minx that I am, I hit upon the idea of writing my post earlier instead of waiting until I am blinded with pain and must resort to digging through unpacked boxes for a picture of myself as a baby/Hollywood agent. […]
You will have to excuse the lack of stirring prose on this, day eight of NaBloPoMo. Apparently migraines are the new morning sickness. If anyone needs me, I’ll be in bed.
Please accept this picture of me as a Very Sophisticated Baby in lieu of a real entry.
I had quite a night.
My headache was still there when I woke up at midnight to pee and change my bag of frozen vegetables, but by my two o’ clock trip to the bathroom, it was gone. I settled happily back sleep…and then my beloved husband began to snore.
Now, he has never been a snorer […]
Today’s entry will be brief. I want only to leave some sort of record, so that when my body is discovered later this evening, crushed under a radiator I wrenched from the floor with my bare hands before succumbing to a massive brain aneurysm, someone will be able to tell Scott what happened.
I have a […]
Today was my Nuchal Translucency ultrasound. The Nuchal Translucency is a transparent space behind the neck of a fetus, the measurement of which can sometimes indicate risk for genetic disorders. My trained eye could see instantly that both of my babies had unusually adorable neck-backs, but still I was relieved when the perinatologist confirmed that […]
Dear Science Babies,
I know this is a busy week for you, what with developing reflexes and all, so I won’t take up much of your time. But they tell me you’re each about the size of a lime now, and I think that is big enough to be talked to honestly. So here goes:
I have […]
Last night I discovered the perfect drink, and because I am a giver, I will share it with you.
The Feral Kitten
You will need:
1 glass
Margarita salt
Lorina Sparkling Pink Lemonade
Simply Limeade
Ice
Lime wedge
1.Run lime wedge around rim of glass
2. Dredge glass forcefully in margarita salt
3. Fill glass with ice
4. Add equal-ish parts Lorina Sparkling Pink Lemonade and […]
A HA! A HA HA HAHAHAHAHAAA! I have finished my last full day of work before deadline. Monday I get to leave at 1:00 for my ultrasound, and by Tuesday it will all be over—no more overtime, only the luxurious caress of the eight-hour day. If I have an episode of violent puking, as I […]
Work continues to suck the very life out of me. I was in the office this past SUNDAY, and if you think Mondays are unpleasant under normal circumstances, try coming in to work at 6:30 on a Monday morning when you were there less than 24 hours earlier AND took work home AND know you […]
