It’s really real, and I keep writing about it and thinking about it but the truth is that I don’t really believe it yet. Kevin says he’s the same way, but frankly he didn’t believe we were going to have a baby last time until like 30 minutes after Nicolaus was born. This morning I [...]
This morning Nicolaus woke up and decided he wanted to talk about the baby afterall. He piled up into my bed with a shaggy stuffed dog and the two of them inspected my stomach. He pulled up my shirt and helped the dog peer into my belly button, then he stuck his finger in there [...]
Everything is great. Perfect heartbeat, perfect uterus, perfect perfect. They put me on an antibiotic for a UTI I didn’t know I had, which apparantly a common thing for pregnant women to develop. I’ve also lost another half a pound since my last visit but they weren’t concerned. The nurse seemed confident that my appetite [...]
The most random stuff keeps making me cry. They never actually covered this on Star Trek, but I bet Vulcans totally busted into tears over Kleenex commercials while they were pregnant.
Any song lyric that hints at the strings that connect children to past generations is guaranteed to make me lose it. Dwight Yokum (shoot me [...]
When I was this pregnant with Nicolaus, all I did was lay on the couch and think about the miracle of life inside me. All I thought about was him. Nicolaus Nicolaus Nicolaus. Now I’m pregnant again, and again all of my focus is on… Nicolaus.
It helps in some ways because it’s hard to concentrate [...]