Let’s see: The Big Book of Birth? – Fantastic.  Exactly what I was looking for in a ‘how to have a baby’ book.   I took out a copy from the library, but I’m totally going to spring for my own copy, mostly so I can leave it opened to key pages on the Boy’s [...]

Wow. First off, thank you for all your input on both sides of the great diaper debate going on in Brooklyn right now. As with so much else in this baby-raising thing, I have no idea yet what we’re going to end up doing. I imagine we’ll be using disposables til Thor is at least [...]

OK, sublingual B12 – even when (especialy when?) flavored with raspberry, ginger, etc. – is disgusting.  Gaggingly disgusting.  Bleccchhhhh! Tums, on the other hand – I can now understand the love.  That stuff might be chalky, but it’s not too nasty, and it actually, um, works.  I am a convert.  Tums is my friend, and [...]

Yep.  Sprog is the size of a kumquat these days.  And since ‘kumquat’ is the funniest word that the English language has ever appropriated, I feel like I now have license to say it over and over again. Kumquatkumquatkumquatkumquat. Still suffering with this headache from hell, still feeling blechy from about noon, on.  Still spotting [...]

So.  I’m finally… starting… to understand… what… everyone… was talking about… when they said… the first… trimester… was… exhausting… *snore* Yeah.  The steroids have left the body, and I’m full on into zonked-out mode.  Can I just sleep for the next 7 months?  Please? In more amusing symptom-watch news, I have developed the silliest pregnancy [...]

Yesterday’s nausea spilled over into the evening yechs, and kept me from really eating dinner.  Started on leftover rarebit, gave it up as a bad deal.  Started in on toast, but the toast tasted funny.  Needless to say, Nellie wishes every day was a blechhh-for-dinner day.  She got a lot of bread and cheese last [...]

So, assuming that there’s still a live Sprog in there somewhere, this is the farthest any of my pregnancies have progressed. And yeah, FUCK YOU, Fates – I said it out loud and I AM assuming there’s a live one in there, still.  I think we made it past the hump, despite the bleeding that [...]

Ok, so spotting has – either coincidentally, or as a direct result of the hydration – really pretty much gone away. That was one huge sigh of relief you just heard coming from the direction of Brooklyn.  Bloody hell, this was a sucky two weeks! And it’s ending just in time for the week of [...]

Folks, I think I’m on to something.  Powdered Gatorade is something I cannot, apparently buy out here, but nasty CountryTime Lemonade, mixed at half-strength gives the same not-too-sweet effect.  I drank over 100 oz of fluids yesterday. And there was no spotting. I’m feeling hopeful that maybe – just maybe – I can keep this [...]

Doing better today.  This should hold for another 27-28 hours and then I’ll be back on the crazy-train, but for now, it’s a comfortable place to be. I’ve decided to put my trust in nausea and boobs that I swear to god grew a cup size overnight.  I’m thinking of going to buy some cheap [...]