Why is it, that on top of all the other discomforts and inconveniences of pregnancy - the heartburn, the back-ache, the farting (it's not just me, is it? It can't be), the disrupted sleep...

Dinner chez HBM, last night:Wonderbaby (pointing, with frown, to suspicious orange lump on plate): Whassat?HBM: Sweet potato.Wonderbaby: NO LIKE TAY-TOE.HBM: Fine. It's a yam.Wonderbaby: HAM?HBM: YAM.HBF (helpfully): It's a tuber.Wonderbaby: TOOBER?HBF: Tuber.Wonderbaby: NO...

You know how it goes. You have a prenatal appointment, they do an ultrasound, they let you see your baby, and you're just filled - suffused - with the joy of seeing your beautiful...

Wonderbaby's relationship with her nether regions is evolving. It is, she will have you know, no longer a hole.It is now a pocket.A recent scene at bathtime:Wonderbaby: (pointing to nether regions) Look I got,...

I didn't give Wonderbaby's future a lot of really reflective thought while I was pregnant with her. Which is to say, to the extent that I thought about it, I simply assumed that her...

Something else that we learned from the test results:...

The new year dawns, brightly.We have our news. Everything is, as they say, fine. It was always going to be fine, we knew, no matter what, but at least now, for now, we have...

Have a very merry holiday, whatever you celebrate. I'll be back in a few days with renewed spirit - brought about by some good rest and the arrival of new appliances - to share...

Have finally - four days behind schedule - received the contents of our household, which are now sitting nicely in our new driveway in a big storage pod that we must painstakingly empty ourselves,...

Here's a tip, if you're ever contemplating a household move, especially if you're contemplating making that move in the dead of winter, when horrendous winter storms tend to hit and shut down roads and...