So I guess I let the baby-name out of the bag – which I was intending to do, but I’d thought I’d put rather more thought into the post than just slyly sneaking it into a DoG post! Best laid plans coming to naught – the story of every IF’s reproductive life… Anyway, yes, we [...]

No, not baby poop.  I’m saving that topic for maybe a month from now, maybe two.  I’m actually talking about my pregnant-lady obsession with poop and all things, um, excretory. Because, really, you’ve all been wondering, right? First off, let me say that for me, most of the vaunted side effects of being pregnant have [...]

Hmmph. Felt crappy so I turned on the a/c unit.  It’s so humid here right now it’s hard to breathe.  That didn’t help so I pet the dog.  Which made her happy, but didn’t do anything for me.  Then I puked up my morning apple-juice & vitamins. That worked.  Feeling much better now.  Had some [...]

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 [...]