Also known as, You Know You’ve Been Pregnant Too Long When… 10. You put together all your outfits around the one pair of shoes that you can still wedge your feet into. This is not so bad, since you only go out of the house to something requiring an “outfit” twice a week. 9. You have … More 41 Weeks
Due date plus six here, and all is well on the home front. Every night we go to bed wondering, is this the night? Every day I check the weather, hoping it’ll safe to drive into the city to the midwife center. With all this baby talk, you might have forgotten that there’s still a … More February Sockies
It’s just past midnight as I write this, so we’re at due date + 5. Definitely well within the realm of normalcy, but I’m starting to get ancy (antsy? ants in pants?). This was also my first Tuesday not at work, so I technically had the whole day free to get ahead on homework. But … More In Progress for Baby In Progress
Our due date was on Friday. It’s really weird to think “we’re 9 months pregnant.” It seems like some kind of rare achievement, when it isn’t anything of the sort. It’s just… we’re done! We’ve reached the finish line! Except we haven’t. To be perfectly honest, we’re still in no rush. We’re doing intelligent things … More 9 Months Pregnant
A few months ago, I put out a call: please, if you are so inclined, knit things for my baby! Because I don’t have time, and I am not actually judgmental about other people’s knitting! Well, good grief, all these loving hands around me have put me to shame – not just with knitting, but … More This Will Be a Warm Baby
Out of all the questions that folks ask me all the time, I have a least favorite: “Is this your first?” When I was first asked that, I hesitated for a moment. Then I said yes. Of course I said yes, and I’ve said yes ever since. This person doesn’t know me from Adam, really, … More St. Scholastica’s Day
For the past three or four weeks, spinning a breech baby has been our preoccupying obsession. Our baby has been breech for a while, but for half of our second and much of our third trimester, the message we got from all corners was, “Don’t worry; it’s highly likely she’ll flip.” So we trusted conventional … More Sending a Baby for a Spin
I am so behind on blogging it’s ridiculous. Cyrilla is due in ten days, and I’m barely computing it. Her room is close to readiness, thanks to several spurts of nesting over the last few weeks. One last load of necessaries is drying now, and she is quite overstocked with diapers and 0-3 month clothes. … More First Things
In two days, I will be, in medical terminology, “term.” That means 37 weeks, which in turn means that if Baby C comes after that point, she will not be considered premature. Those last three weeks are important for final lung and brain development, so it’s best if she goes to 39 weeks at least. … More Term
I have long suspected, but only recently begun to experience, the benefits of a barter system with other artist friends. I met my friend Michelle when she and both our future husbands were in their final year at Cedarville University, attending the same church, finding in each other similar liturgical longings. But when they all graduated … More Visualizing
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