All’s well according to SuperStarOB.  He’s relieved that Thor’s mighty mighty cranium is now measuring more on the big-but-big/average side than on the OMG-you’re-never-going-to-birth-that-from-your-girl-goods end of the scale. He said everything’s looking great, BP is still lowish, my weight gain is pathetic, but Thor’s is great, so he doesn’t care.  He did an internal – [...]

I didn’t do much at all today.  No, that’s not true.  I did quite a few things, it’s just that – for a change – the day didn’t revolve around work or baby-makin’.  A day off work, and I’ve been pretty damned stressed out by work and other injustices lately, so I spent my day [...]

Yawn. A blustery day, so the first homemade clam-chowder of the season with what will probably be the last asparagus of the season.  A day of cooking and writing – how wonderful an autumn day is that?  Answer: in my world, that counts as a muy wonderful day, indeed. And Nellie hasn’t eaten anything she [...]

Back from a wonderful long weekend at the boy’s parents’ country house in Connecticut. They were interested and supportive of pregnancy, I got a couple of sincere compliments from his mother, who told me that I’m looking ‘radiant’ these days. Since she’s not the type to mince words, I took it as a compliment indeed. [...]

No news being good news, and I have nothing to report. Feel fine, got lots of sleep last night. My need to pee all night long seems to have gone away – much to my relief. I’m sure it’ll come back, but really, this is far too early for my bladder to be acting up! [...]

The nurse at my RE’s called up to offer congratulations and to ask that I maintain the restrictions & meds. protocol in place at least until Monday. Argh. This is RE code double-speak for no sex, and, baby-making-without-sex-related irony aside, the lack of which is just killing me. I know this is code, because I [...]