20-week anatomy scan went well – everything normal!  WOOHOO!!!! We got some scary Skeletor photos, but we also got one that melts my heart every time I look at it, so I offer it to you for your heart-melting needs, as well: That’s a foot, people.  A real live honest to goodness baby-foot. Holy shit! [...]

So the heartburn thing isn’t getting any better, but I’m getting better at managing it.  Turns out that I am NOT the exception to the no-tomatoes, no-onions rule of keeping heartburn livable, much as I’d like to be.  My delicious gazpacho was delicious, for about three slurps.  Ditto for the quinoa salad (with raw onion) [...]

So it’s getting to be that time. “That time” being “time to look into birthing classes”. I am not excited. I’m not scared about labor yet – probably should be, but I’m not – and I figure that an entire series of Saturdays dedicated to telling me that I can’t possibly do this without massive [...]

I don’t think I truly understood how weird it would feel to have a small being living inside me.  I know I didn’t understand how radically my body would adjust itself to make room for said small being (and I know I aint seen nothin‘ yet!)  I’ve mentioned the acres of boob flesh I now [...]