Things that I have discovered, lo these many days of sick:1) Ginger ale does squat for my nausea.2) Except give me gingery burps.3) Peppermint tea helps a little bit.4) So do Peek Freans Chocolate-Covered...
So. Facking. SICK.It's been coming and going of late, but this week the all-day-all-night morning sickness has been coming with a vengeance. Lay-me-out-on-the-floor-and-wrack-me-with-nausea-when-I-should-be-packing-and-painting-and-trying-to-sell-a-house-and-oh-yeah-caring-for-my-very-possibly-bionic-toddler kinda vengeance.It sucks, it just really sucks. When do I start...
(Voila - now with picture!)We - Wonderbaby, Her Bad Father and yours truly - live in a house that is one hundred and twenty-plus years old. It is small and creaky and dusty and...
"Late Maternal Age," they call it. It's a fancy term for OLD MOM.I was not late of maternal age when I had Wonderbaby. I was not entirely early of maternal age, but still -...
A confession: I was deeply, deeply ambivalent about breastfeeding before I had Wonderbaby. I knew that I was going to try to breastfeed, I knew that I was going to try my very best,...
... for sweet babies and fat pumpkins and - because it's Canadian Thanksgiving - maple syrup and Leonard Cohen and universal health care.And, also, for boobies. Today's a good day to go look at...
I don't write here, much, about my moonlighting gig as a gossip blogger. Mostly because, I figure, if you like celebrity gossip, you probably already read Famecrawler, and also because there's just not that...
WonderBaby came into this world with her eyes wide open, silent but for a few obligatory shouts. There had been complications, so they whisked her away for a moment, but within a very few...
Last pregnancy, I had no morning sickness. This pregnancy, the morning sickness is lasting ALL DAY. I've been curled up in the fetal position on the floor, eyes squeezed shut to stop the endless...
My sister, finishing, in competition-rank timing, the Toronto Waterfront marathon.She ran for her son. She ran her heart out. She's my hero.These are heroes, too. Walking their hearts out for a little boy...
