December 2007

Everybody’s Waiting for the Man with the Bag.

December 21, 2007

First of all, I am never again making a decision without consulting you people. You are an eternal font of knowledge, and I cannot thank you enough for the cascade of bra recommendations. In the past year alone my readers have helped me plan my wedding, plod through IVF research, and more importantly, get up [...]

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Next Time She Loses The Hand.

December 18, 2007

Just to clarify, in case there was any confusion, I do not mind being huge. In fact, I am fond of my rapidly burgeoning belly, and it reassures me that the babies are indeed growing, despite my still sub-optimal weight gain (12 pounds). I am even beginning to like my new bellybutton, suspicious of it [...]

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18 Weeks: I Don’t Think You’re Ready.

December 16, 2007

I meant to have Scott take a picture of me each week, to document the baby-related changes in my physique. I say “meant to” because it hasn’t worked out that way—I was too paranoid to start until the second trimester, and one week I forgot, and another week we were out of town. As a [...]

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Apologies in Advance.

December 12, 2007

Well! It has been an eventful few days. “Eventful,” you will understand, being a euphemism for “Godawful.” Let’s begin! Monday morning I got a phone call from my peri’s office. While my urine culture came back negative, my, er, vaginal culture came back positive for an infection. I was to start treatment right away, as [...]

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Pinch Me.

December 7, 2007

Just back from longest appointment ever, and hotly anticipating my dinner, so I won’t waste time with exposition: Baby A is a boy, and not shy about it, either, more or less sitting on the camera immediately and spreading his legs. Baby B, on the other hand, required extensive poking before crossly revealing her girlhood. [...]

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Antici…pation.

December 6, 2007

Many of you were curious about how, exactly, a piece of Saltine made its way into my underpants. Life is full of little mysteries like this, things that make your head hurt if you think about them too hard: what is nothingness? Is existence a property or predicate? Do all Cartesian worldviews lead inevitably to [...]

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Updaterrific.

December 5, 2007

Well, that was a refreshing little post-NaBloPoMo break, but I am back now, and so hereby present you with what was intended to be a list of updates, but instead seems to be a list of things I have found irksome/disturbing in the time since I last posted: —Somehow I had always assumed that my [...]

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