It's been two weeks since my little big boy blasted his way into our lives, and I'd had every intention, this weekend, of crafting some wonderfully mushy letter to him, welcoming him to the...
I do it every night now. When it's dark, when the rest of the house is asleep, or almost, I untangle my tiny newborn bundle from my arms and lay him down in his...
Recovery isn't going as well as I'd like, nor is breastfeeding - it's actually all going sorta badly (let's just say, there are icepacks on every sensitive area of my body, and they're not...
The first contraction hit at 7:46 pm. I know this, because I checked the time. I was pretty sure that it was just more false labor, but still. One always hopes. So I checked...
Miss Emilia would like to introduce you all to her baby brother, medical Mister Jasper, view who arrived last night at 9:16pm.After very narrowly escaping being born at the side of the...
No baby. Lost rocked, though, so, hey, there was that.Spent the better part of today at hospital while doctors fussed over size of baby and fact of ongoing contractions that seem to go nowhere....
Why I have to have this baby this weekend, or else:1) Because if I have to go through another full day or night of 'false' but nonetheless really f*cking painful labor contractions, I may...
We've known Sprout's name for a long time. Naming him, in fact, was one of the easier parts of child-preparation for us. It came to us, and it felt right, and that was that....
I had hoped that this Mother's Day would bring me a baby. It didn't, and I was discouraged.Then I remembered: I already have a baby. I already am a mother. Not that...
No, I have still not had this baby. I'm still having contractions, sometimes painful ones, but they're still irregular. I'm not going to prattle on about how frustrating this is, because you've heard it...
