Matt and I are considering offering a cash reward for anyone who can name the phenomenon I am about to describe. I’ve tried Googling and have come up blank, and the book What to Expect the First Year has no mention of what we’ve experienced. (The book covers just about everything else with an authoritative […]
Category Archive for 'Jessica'
Matt and I have now had Simon home for five full days, during which time–despite warnings from friends, siblings, and parents–we have been shocked by the amount of biological waste that our little one emits on a regular basis. As Simon is a boy, we’ve endured several requisite episodes wherein the little darling pishes on […]
Today was Simon’s first trip to the doctor since, well, since Friday when he was released from the hospital. Kiddo went two full days without costing my health insurance plan a bundle. Thanks United! Please don’t drop me for being too expensive… Thank goodness, today’s trip was a simple new baby check-in with his pediatrician, […]
Matt’s done the lion’s share of blogging lately, as he has more time than I do. Which is funny, because the guy has been a full time pump assembler/cleaner, caterer, errand boy, diaper expert, burper, and entertainer for the last few days. In fact, if you list the number of daily tasks he accomplishes, it’s […]
Labor and Delivery
Posted in Jessica, Labor & Delivery on Oct 19th, 2006
Now that we’re home, I thought I’d write about the actual labor and delivery while I can still remember any of it. The short version is that it was great–easier and shorter than I expected and a positive and empowering experience. As Matt wrote earlier, I delicately woke him at around 5:20 a.m. Monday with […]
Today, Friday the 13th, was my last day at work until January 2. I haven’t been away for more than a week at a time in five years, since I started my job in August 2001. It’s a terribly odd feeling–not at all what I expected. I’ve transfered my projects (and boy was THAT a […]
I’ve been knitting off and on since 1990. One thing that always inspires me to pick up my needles is the impending or recent birth of a baby. To date, all of my nieces and nephews have a hand-knit baby blanket from me. For my nephew Nathan (now 12), I knitted a yellow lace chevron […]
Last month, I had a baby shower hosted by my sisters-in-law Stacy and Tia. I was a little worried at the outset that my brand of humor (I did call Whozit a parasite at one point…) would not go over well with the shower crowd, but I shouldn’t have. One look at those cute hooded […]
Matt and I are very aware that pregnancy and new parenthood can make couples hideously self-absorbed. “We won’t be like that,” we promised ourselves. “We’ll talk about other things; we’ll remember the whole world doesn’t revolve around us; we’ll be better than those other couples.” Or not. Yesterday dear friends in San Francisco called to […]
Before I got pregnant, I assumed the hardest part about being pregnant would be the morning sickness, the back pain, the fatigue, etc. You know, the pregnancy part. Not so. For me–who admittedly has been blessed with no morning sickness, no back pain, and little fatigue during this pregnancy–the hardest part has been sorting through […]