pregnancy
Best Ginger Cookie Ever
Ina Garten’s recipe for Ginger Cookies. Lovely cookies for everyday – exceptional for pregnancy and chemotherapy
March of Dimes
My brain stopped working when the words Neonatal Intensive Care Unit came out of the doctors mouth. I sat on the exam table in my paper gown, strapped to monitors spitting out ticker-tapes, and tried to unhear those words. This is not an eventuality for which I had prepared myself. All those nights I stayed […]
Baby Update: She’s Here!!
Baby Genevieve made her appearance at 6:16 am. She was still two weeks early, but she officially made it to full term the night before she was born, and she’s a good healthy size – 20 inches, 7 lbs 9 oz. She’s perfect and we couldn’t be happier
Pregnancy
I see the smile in your eyes
when you see my belly
strangers fall over themselves to get the door
my husband holds my hand as we cross the street
then doesn’t let go
The Best Thing
the best thing about being home from the hospital: snuggling with my husband
Baby Update: Home Again – this time on bedrest
Sprung from the cage. Released on my own recognizance. Flew the coop. Baby is doing well. I’m at home from the hospital, still pregnant, and on bedrest. By bedrest I mean reclining; I’m not to be sitting up either. Perhaps bedrest would be a little less frustrating if we hadn’t just moved, and I wasn’t […]
Baby Update: the Antepartum Unit
Yup, still pregnant. And still in the hospital. I have been officially transferred from Labor and Delivery to the Antepartum Unit. This is a good thing, it means they are no longer worried that I will deliver any minute, but I still need some help to keep labor from proceeding. I’m still dilating – about […]
Baby Update: the Hospital
That’s right, I’m in the hospital right now. Saturday night was a tough night for me with lots of intestinal cramping and nausea. I was up all night. The next morning we started going through all the boxes we hadn’t unpacked yet looking for the booklet on pregnancy and childbirth from our doctor. When we […]
I’m Still Here
I’m still here and still very pregnant. The move went as well as, or even better than expected. We had one group of friends and family members show up on Saturday morning and the worked till about 8 that night moving the big items and most of the boxes – and a second group of […]
Retail Therapy: “I’m a little teapot…”
I ran away to the mall a couple days ago. Everything was coming at me from every direction and I was in need of some retail therapy. Problem is, I have neither time nor money at the moment. Then I somehow silenced the nagging “you don’t have time for this…” long enough to find myself […]