for reals. waiting for labor to start is like waiting for Christmas morning when you’re 10 years old and think that this might be the year you finally get the ________ you’ve been dying for (you can fill in the blank. mine was a pony. which i did get. i was a bit of a …

damn. i thought i was in labor. i’ve been having crampy cramps for days (though irregular, yes) and today i had a ‘change in my vaginal discharge’ that seemed watery and different. convinced. CONVINCED! that i would at THE LEAST be dilated and well on my way to active labor, i called my Ob and …

so i, uh, have this, umm, friend…who was recently getting jiggy wit’ her husband. we’ll call him “nobb.” and, they were, you know, sharing a moment, and suddenly (she claims), THERE WERE DROPS OF THICK WHITE STUFF around them. and they. were not. his. “nobb” just kind of rolled with it, didn’t seem to stress …

bebe z feels like it’s trying to crack out of me like an egg. ‘things’ seem to have moved down a bit. pelvic area pressure, maybe some cramping. nothing that i would qualify as a contraction from how they’ve been described to me (and in lore), but it does feel different than it has. nothing …

wooooo!!! crazy! tomorrow, i will officially be at 37 weeks, or “full term.” meaning, that the baby can safely come anytime and will definitely come within the next 5 weeks. 40 weeks (official due date) is june 8th and the powers that be will only let me go to THE LATEST 42 weeks (complications arise …

so, you know how there’s this trend in society to have more than one kid? this is not like having more than one piece of cake. that is just sensible. no, this is lunacy. and again and again i’m told that the reason people indulge in this severe lapse of judgement is that they forget …

mothers’ day 2011 and i’m 30 days from due date. i got a lot of well wishes for mothers’ day. i didn’t really expect that, since i don’t much feel like a mom yet. although i am starting to have frequent, vivid dreams about the baby (it’s a boy in my dreams), and i feel …

i’m popping under/out/around a lot of the maternity clothes now, too. nice. 🙂 and i had a patient ask me the other day, “you must really like beer, huh?” (looking at my giant beer belly). and i’m getting asked more and more often at work if i’m sure i wouldn’t like to wear an extra …

well, it’s safe to say that i am an emotional ping pong ball right now. irritable at work, crying at home, exhausted. my goal this weekend, since we were home with no real plans, was to “finish the nursery.” you should see it still- pitiful. part of it is that it is physically taxing to …